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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup

We received more than 600 submissions from 35+ countries, including mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for the first time. And our Twitter chat was more global than ever before, with people from 20 countries participating! Best Library Story — Libraries Transform Teaser. Libraries have fans, tons of fans.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries.

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. Although one million people may seem like an enormous number, consider this: on October 31, 2011, the global population reached 7 billion.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. also reports some news that effect libraries. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust. All Things D.

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