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China Social Entrepreneurs

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Through the twin code in the book, the children in cities can find contact information of rural children on Twin Book's website and make communication through letters with rural children. Turns out that GLI is busy linking up the world with more information about social entrepreneurship: quite cool!

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Every table conversation brings a new perspective and a new idea: whether it’s new knowledge, a great contact or a new extension to the idea under discussion. The goal of these devices is to provide educational and informational content to villages with limited resources: the player is loud enough to play for 20-40 people at one time.

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Bookshare’s Status as an Authorized Entity under Section 121

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Quoting from the statute: "authorized entity" means a nonprofit organization or a governmental agency that has a primary mission to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities Bookshare represents that it is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (..)

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Working to Change the World - May 24, 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To reserve a seat please contact Sherrill Dale at sdale@scu.edu or 408-551-6027. For further information call the Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University, (408) 551-6027, or email sdale@scu.edu. . - Networking Reception 6:30-7:30 p.m.

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Barcoding Life

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here's the first one: My very first ever angel investor, Sheldon Breiner, contacted me on short notice to ask if I wanted to have dinner and a brainstorm with Winnie Hallwachs and Dan Janzen , a pair of U Penn professors with a dream: a handheld barcode reader for life. More information at the Consortium for the Barcode of Life.

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Zerodivide seeks new board members

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Technology Industry: Social entrepreneurs, information technology thought leaders, and executive/senior management in technology-related companies. For more information about ZeroDivide see www.ZeroDivide.org. Philanthropy: Senior management or trustee level experience in a private, community or corporate foundation.

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New tech application for controlling diabetes

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CPI sends a simple range of information to the buddy, and the buddy has a pager-receiver equipped light globe. That way, the buddy can contact their friend and encourage them to test or to deal with a test result. The blood sugar measurement device has a pager transmitter to send the test results to CPI.