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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Plenary Talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union Access to published information is an essential requirement for education, employment and full social inclusion. People with vision impairments and other print disabilities deserve equal access to that treasure of information.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. I followed up the Chiang Mai gathering with other meetings with Thailand-based Martus users, and just touched down in New York.

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities. Our partners proofread the text, fixing mistakes and adding accessibility, and ship us the files back to add to our Bookshare library. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam. All people deserve equal access to opportunities.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

The Mobicom partnership comes with access to their SMS website, which allows Bogii to track the messages that have been sent, how many were undelivered due to connection issues, and to see audience responses to the message. Access to a large network of mobile users within target site. What worked. What didn't work.

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Floss Manuals and Open Source Video Editing Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He will be bringing equipment and provide skills training to the first Community Access television station in Ghana. This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. Nancy White writes about the Future of Learning in a Networked World self-financed learning journey.

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