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Optimistic about Marrakesh Treaty!

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In North America, Canada was rated as “probable” and the USA as a “possible.” Of course, Mexico might well beat both the USA and Canada, but Mexico is in the Latin America group at WBU. The hope is to be able to celebrate the milestone globally on December 10, 2015, Human Rights Day.

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

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We’re already delivering services at scale in three other countries—Canada, the UK, and India. Bookshare adapts to the needs of all readers with a disability that makes reading hard, whether they read with their eyes, ears, or fingers. Very few philanthropic opportunities come with the chance to solve a global problem with modest risk.

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Engineers Without Borders Canada

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I greatly enjoy talking to students, and I am now in Ottawa, Canada, just having spoken to an incredible group of students, Engineers Without Borders Canada. Mainly engineering students, but as EWB Canada has grown and matured, they've increased the size of their umbrella and welcome non-engineering students.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Supports Bookshare!

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Thanks to the support of the EB team, we now have direct access to digital versions of many important reference series, along with the ability to provide these books to people with qualifying print disabilities in Canada, the UK, India and all over the world!

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SEA Chapters

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and Canada. I recently took on the role of chairing the Social Enterprise Alliance, the main grassroots group representing social enterprises in the U.S. One of our new strategies to respond to the increasing demand for social enterprise knowledge is to encourage chapters to form. The initial chapters have just been starting this year.

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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

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Canada, Europe and India. . • This rapid increase in our collection size has been due to extensive support from publishers: the majority of new books added to Bookshare last year and this year have been voluntarily provided to us by 130 publisher partners in the U.S., These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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Revenues from developed countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Denmark, where subscription fees are comparable to those in the United States, help us underwrite the cost of memberships in developing world countries such as India, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.

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