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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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Your Official 17NTC Local's Guide to DC

EveryAction

It recently gained national attention for the #FakeNews story that became widely-known as #PizzaGate. The hottest ticket in DC has to be the National Museum of African American History & Culture. The National Zoo. If you are an animal lover and need a break during NTC, take a walk through the National Zoo.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China.

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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. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Seven Billion Actions. See how organizations like yours are benefiting from their donated products and services.

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

And I hadn’t noticed the imagery at first, but when you look at it here you can see, [image] clearly the contrast that they’re creating is around skin tone where Kendra’s opponent has very light skin, rosy skin, “Kodak China Girl skin” as its described, and Kendra’s skin is darkened and she looks very shadowy. Amy Costello: Thank you.

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

You can read about some of these apps in on our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page. If your organization or library is interested in building an app, the new AppMachine site is worth checking out. You don't need any programming experience to build an app for your nonprofit or library, either. Mobile Green Tech.

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Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006

Have Fun - Do Good

View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. Among the videos up right now is footage of police dispersing student protestors in China, UCLA police using a taser gun on a student in a library, and video shot by journalist Brad Will during the protests in Oaxaca, right before he was killed. For more info.