Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

and we needed more help. Last week I was able to visit Nairobi, and I sat down with Carol to find out how we could help her. I was surprised to find out that we’re her largest customer right now, with more than 100 students working on proofreading educational books for Bookshare.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. Only the tenacity of the filmmakers got this story out of Martin, who otherwise would be talking about his dream of helping turn poor farmers into rural entrepreneurs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Wonderful stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Each one of these terrific people has committed to spending anywhere from a month to a year helping Benetech with his or her skills and passion. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Through adding accessibility features to ebooks that are critically needed by people with disabilities, and helpful to many other people, we envision a world where all commercial ebooks work effectively for the community we serve. We believe that our track record demonstrates how to drive this kind of equilibrium change repeatedly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip.

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