Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 3, 2024

Since then, Women’s History Month has been established as a national celebration, where organizations and individuals take time to honor the strong women in their communities. Make your member portal inclusive Honor the 2024 Women’s History Month theme by ensuring your membership portal is inclusive and accessible for all members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In 2001, the National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) released a set of recommendations called the Charleston Principles to supplement fundraising laws that had not kept pace with technology. The other option is to outsource registration to a compliance solutions provider such as Harbor Compliance , or a law firm.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change. This includes considering factors such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and other intersecting identities that can influence access to resources and opportunities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The Goal The goal is pretty clear: insuring that every person on the planet with a serious print disability has access to the books and other printed material that they need to get an education, make a living and be included in society. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2020

In 2001, the National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) released a set of recommendations called the Charleston Principles to supplement fundraising laws that had not kept pace with technology. The other option is to outsource registration to a compliance solutions provider such as Harbor Compliance , or a law firm.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Brief Comments on Accessibility Concerns on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) The disability community should be concerned about ACTA for two reasons: At its core it’s an anti-piracy agreement. The digital measures designed to defeat piracy usually end up equating accessibility with piracy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Ultimately, this community should have equal access to all of the books that are needed for education, employment and social inclusion.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. It’s also important to ensure your trainings are accessible and inclusive!

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sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

Every organization, no matter your mission, function, or size, is subject to a variety of laws and standards intended to protect the individuals you engage with. Software compliance is critical guide to ensuring that you are following these laws and standards in a digitally driven world.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

They believe everyone deserves access to safe and welcoming public spaces, regardless of where they live. National Forest Foundation. Organization Mission: The National Forest Foundation aims to engage Americans in promoting our National Forests and Grasslands’ health and public enjoyment. Youtube: @natlforests.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

AI has garnered a lot of global and national attention across most industries in recent months. If your association caters to healthcare, law, finance, or other industries, start brainstorming about how your members can use AI to create content and make better decisions faster.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

And in most civil cases (typically those covering issues of housing, family, and consumer law), people represent themselves because there is generally no right to legal counsel in civil matters. However, access to justice for people with low and moderate incomes has been a long-standing issue facing vulnerable communities. Rosen, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. Everything from news to shopping to their friends and influencers was accessible to them online. . Thankfully, they changed the name to Google.

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Everyaction

JUNE 6, 2018

There is no better time to support local and national nonprofits protecting LGBTQ rights and serving the LGBTQ community, and while there are far too many organizations doing great work to list them all, these are a few that we're big fans of. National Center for Transgender Equality. Transgender Law Center. LGBTQ Victory Fund.

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M+R

JUNE 5, 2023

As incredible as they might sound, these are just a few of the new “children’s rights laws” that could become a reality under a new United Nations program if fully implemented by the Carter administration. Enter spaces you otherwise would not have access to. Looking for benchmarks? We’ve got some Benchmarks.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Technology has greatly increased the ease with which we can access news and services and serve others. However, if we are truly intent on using technology to serve and help others we cannot forget to make sure tools we use, whether they are websites or apps, are accessible to all. Pacific time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

National Development Council. With 80-90 employees working remotely across the United States, the National Development Council was looking for a better solution to staying connected. Women’s Law Project. “People are telling me that they feel more connected. ”" CTO, Antonio Palumbo. Path Point.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Access to information and knowledge is a basic human right and a necessary first step towards personal, economic, and social development. The good news is that there are now unprecedented opportunities to transform the lives of these millions by removing barriers of access to information  —   and this is where you can help.

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Copyright Law Library eBook 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

And that is setting back the cause of people with disabilities who need that kind of access. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. A recent example of this was web site accessibility. pointed out that the authors have long supported disability access. Roy Blount Jr.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. DT: In your book, we learn that you found your calling quite young when you visited a death row inmate during your summer internship for law school. It will ultimately fail.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more activist organizations began to gain traction, it became clear that the nation needed to adopt more comprehensive civil rights legislation to increase independence and fully integrate people with disabilities into U.S. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Unesco has a paper and a call to action for international and national policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies benefit humanity as a whole. Whenever people or institutions fail, we assume they are simply lacking the appropriate algorithms or upgrades.” There are concerns.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Candid

MARCH 16, 2022

Council members may also access our legal compendium chapter, International Grantmaking: A Guide For Funders Making Grants Outside The United States , for free assistance on international grantmaking procedures. This includes the United Nations and all its bodies, so groups like UNICEF, UN Women, UNHCR, the WHO and others are included.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access. The biggest challenge for access is that it’s expensive.

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Copyright India Library United States 158

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 health crisis in health access, education equity, underinvested neighborhoods, and lack of or underemployment, all play a role in the disproportionate impact the crisis will continue to have on Latino and underserved communities nationwide. Charitable giving declined in 2018 due to tax law changes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

Jon Townsend, Chief Information Officer, National Trust. Clooney is a globally recognized, high-powered barrister in the field of international human rights and criminal law. You’ll have first-hand access to speakers for questions. Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International. The best part?

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 30, 2021

My previous position taught me that if you cannot pinpoint what exact data was accessed during a security breach, the assumption becomes that all data was accessed. Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Similar to HIPAA, PIPEDA is Canada’s federal law protecting patient privacy.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 14, 2017

Founded by the United Nations , WHD advocates for the "safety and security of humanitarian aid workers, and for the survival, well-being and dignity of people affected by crises.". Since 1922, they have put significant international pressure on governments to enforce and enact laws that defend women’s rights. Amnesty International USA.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2009

Last Friday, a bill to make Net Neutrality law made it's way to Congress. > Join NTEN for a discussion on the Broadband Access, Net Neutrality and the future of the Internet! . . Tags: broadband access internet net nuetrality NPTech NTEN. Check it out: . .

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

Visit the Asian American Arts Alliance Website If You’re Passionate About the Law, Support the South Asian Bar Association of North America Anyone familiar with the legal system knows how invaluable it is to have a support network of peers and access to ongoing education.

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