Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To do so, we definitely need your help. To help now, please use the Donate Form on Benetech''s website and give whatever you can. Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide. billion poor and unbanked.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

GCF seeks to target these areas to help fill the gaps in climate financing through Requests for Proposals (RfP) and pilot programmes which are focused on specific themes. Areas served: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East. Areas served: Worldwide. PADI AWARE Foundation. National Forest Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. The tough question that ran through my mind was: How can we as technologists in Silicon Valley help prevent this kind of atrocity?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Reflection South Africa Guinea Museum 20

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. I am working with a foundation right now trying to plan out our Africa initiative for the remainder of the year. I said, "You write it.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Oh, and her work with her husband has helped to lay the groundwork for much of our understanding of modern science today - no big deal.

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