Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

As experts in this field, we feel strongly that publishers should ensure that their ebooks are universally designed, so that people with disabilities can purchase and use ebooks obtained through mainstream channels. We don’t think the commerciality issue belongs in the treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We think that all publishers should sell accessible ebooks when they sell their books through mainstream channels, but the copyright exception leaves that decision to the publishers except for this narrow community of people who are significantly disabled when it comes to print.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

All of the stakeholders want publishers to sell accessible books though their normal business channels. I was surprised that the Director General of WIPO, Francis Gurry, actually presided over the half-day formal meeting: the effort was obviously getting priority from WIPO. There was one big area of consensus.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2006

Even today, communication in the zone is quite limited in terms of any open, shared channels. Delays and duplication of efforts resulted and lives were lost because of the lack of meaningful communication. FYI, the cell phones in most of Kashmir worked even immediately after the quake.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 17, 2004

And, this foreign aid is often channeled through national governments. This post (one of a series) will concentrate on the big picture issues of demining operations at a national level. First of all, demining is mainly funded through foreign aid. For example, the U.S. Maybe this offsets the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Last year, we found ourselves asking two key questions: What if we could build upon the enthusiasm and momentum that spring out of increasingly popular weekend hackathon-for-good events, and channel them towards existing, sustainable humanitarian free and open source (HFOSS) projects?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 14, 2012

That made me realize how important this channel of engineers doing social good was to the social entrepreneurship movement. Pamela Hartigan, head of the Skoll Centre at Oxford University's Said Business School, noted in her keynote that EWB was the largest single source of Skoll Scholars at Oxford.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Our most recent initiative, SocialCoding4Good , and last week’s launch of its Corporate Partner Program , which offers companies a new, skills-based volunteering channel for employee engagement and their pro bono initiatives, is an example of this.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

When we are channeling the real needs of the users, tapping domain expertise that we lack, or getting our solutions into the hands of thousands or millions, our partners are essential to everything we do. What’s really important is the mission, and we trust that being clear and open will lead to the best possible outcomes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Our vision is that the same ebooks available through mass channels like the Amazon Kindle or the Apple iPad should be fully accessible. Enter the Born Accessible movement. Benetech’s President, Betsy Beaumon, coined the motto: “If it’s born digital, it should be Born Accessible!”

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