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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Have an Android device?

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ).

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. This is important here in the U.S.,

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. when we bring them to developing world countries. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” This year, for the first time, IDPD is commemorated with supporting sub-themes (see the full list here ), to draw attention to key issues that come into play in the intersection of disability and development processes.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. The bombings created confusion and as people were able to put details together for themselves, they did so in a way that others could learn and follow the developments.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising. Image 1: TechSoup. spanhidden.

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