Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 31, 2008
One of the most exciting literacy social enterprises that I've run into is PlanetRead. When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. They have also done extensive measurements of their impact and see real progress on advancing literacy. Another example of scale, South Asian style!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 7, 2013
Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 3, 2010
Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.
Get Fully Funded
MAY 16, 2022
Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. They’ll share your content. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Monthly donors make this work possible!
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.
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