Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. 1,171,000,000.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

This is why the making of accessible books is a classic example of market failure: if publishers could make a lot of money selling braille, large print, audio, and fully accessible textbooks, we wouldn’t need a copyright exception. It’s expensive to adapt textbooks to be accessible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

To prove that point, this video tweet from @WildlifeSOS that tells the good news story of a nail-biting rescue of a leopard in India received very high engagement compared to their other tweets: 4. Launched in November 2020, Twitter Spaces ( @TwitterSpaces ) are live audio spaces that speak on a variety of topics. Twitter Spaces.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). Steve went to India for more tests. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. and we needed more help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. In addition to a print book, they have multimedia content that animates the characters and adds audio narration. One of the most exciting literacy social enterprises that I've run into is PlanetRead.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c). Defines Authorized Entity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text as well as large print. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today. Excludes video. •

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2009

The five panelists will include Robert Zoellick, President of The World Bank Group, Luísa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germany?s Or post your video or audio questions on our Youtube. Ask your questions here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

Like XploR, the BlindSpot cane uses audio notifications by way of Bluetooth. According to ASSISTECH, it is available in India, the United States, and other select countries. XploR isn't the first smart cane prototype out there. Selene Chew developed the BlindSpot as a project for her senior thesis at the University of Singapore.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But ebooks and audio books are by far the most popular accessible formats, and publishers do sell them (although ironically many of these have digital rights management technologies designed to defeat illegal copying but also stop accessibility technology).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

Technorati tags: social change photography net2 nptech India Rwanda. The photo above is from another beautiful photo blog called, Lives in Focus. They don't post often, but when they do, it is worth the wait. The photos are incredible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I will use a blog rich in video and audio to share my discoveries and analysis. So is Dr. Mani who will be using social media to raise money for heart surgeries for poor children in India. I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, just last month, I took it to India. The audio-visual crew did a top-notch job juggling all the video, countdown clocks, slides, props and miking, adding to the sense that this social media stuff is really big-time. Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. Rosenberg says.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The New York organization last year collected more than 60 hours of footage of the organization’s workers and volunteers helping AIDS patients in Uganda, tsunami victims in India, and poor residents of El Salvador, and it soon plans to use that extra footage for an extensive online video campaign. Rosenberg says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. Audios, files. Sometimes it was short audios, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and sometimes they were really long audios. Lots of ones.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In 2007, we went to India, and we visited a program called Matrichaya , which we'll be supporting again in January of 2011. We have taken three trips so far. This past March, two different groups went to Africa. We had a group that went to Kenya to visit BOMA Fund , and we went to Uganda to visit the BeadforLife program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

Our Bookshare library is allowed to scan just about any book needed by a person who is blind or print-disabled: we now have 190,000 of the most in-demand books and textbooks needed in accessible forms like braille, large print, and audio output. Today, as new books are produced, they are "born digital." under a Treaty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And the podcasts became an extension of that, because I realized I wanted to do interviews, and it was a great way to do the interviews and have them in an audio form for people who are interested in audio, and then also I get them transcribed and put them on the blog. So you do what you can. So we do that. And it goes on.

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