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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe in the power of books to change the world. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

December 4, 2009 Benetech’s Reply Comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities The issue all comes down to human rights vs. money. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license! I think they are onto something.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds The goal is to get more people working to make this happen: getting access tech to every person in the world who needs it. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)! talking about their research. And that's just two examples.

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Unlocking Technology-for-Good Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. We share all of our software and information under open licenses to make it easy for other nonprofits or socially conscious organizations to build upon them. Let me explain how this is so.

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Keeping the Rich History of Virginia Preserved and Secure

Tech Soup

" The library contains thousands of published records, books, manuscripts, periodicals, and microfilms about the Northern Neck region of Virginia. The library gets a mix of both general public visitors looking up family history as well as graduate students, writers, historians, and other professionals. Keeping History Protected.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. BackRubbing doesn’t work. The origins of what became Google began as a research project. Ashley Madison.

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