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New tech application for controlling diabetes

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I enjoy sharing (when I get permission to) the stories of new social tech ventures that visit Benetech. Because we're not a funder, we usually can't help new social entrepreneurs with their number one need, money. But, we can be a sounding board for new projects and help them on their path to using technology to make the world a better place.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

At Benetech, we advance technology applications that empower and protect underprivileged populations, and that also have the potential to become financially self-sustaining enterprises. Benetech Labs is where the Benetech team and our social impact partners incubate new software-for-good applications. Let me explain how this is so.

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Read2Go Tops iTunes Literacy Charts!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gerardo Capiel, Benetech's VP Engineering, just sent me a couple of exciting screen shots on our Read2Go iOS application for accessible reading of ebooks. And, the second one shows why: our Read2Go application is at the top of the Literacy and Learning section!

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Bookshare Users Downloading Long-Awaited Apple e-Book App

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech got a call recently from an excited Bookshare member who had been waiting to download our new Read2Go accessible e-book application for Apple devices. The Read2Go application was developed by Bookshare’s parent nonprofit Benetech in partnership with Shinano Kenshi Co.,

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JVIB 2012 Special Issue on Technology: Today's Game Changer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, this is a peer reviewed journal and being guest editors doesn't give us the power to decide what does and doesn't get published.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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Reimagining the Power of One Billion Dollars

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

By making technology applications suitable and relevant to the lives of the world’s poorest people, we can advance a future in which everyone has a fair shot at sharing in the abundance created by today’s accelerating technologies. The solutions that catch fire with their intended users would then be scaled up. Why is this idea exciting?

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