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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

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Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing. For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks.

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Martus 4.5: Lowering the Barrier to Better Information Security through Strong Crypto

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills, so that even less tech-savvy users can easily and quickly implement Martus’ secure documentation capabilities with distributed backup. activists crypto digital security human rights Internet Freedom journalism Martus privacy'

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

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Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

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Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. In Authors Guild v. copyright law). It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. The Authors Guild then appealed the ruling.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

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The next time you set your digital device of choice to record your favorite show so you can watch it whenever you want, take a moment to be thankful that you’re protected from lawsuits from the entertainment industry. It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube.

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

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Our Bookshare library has over 550,000 books that have been delivered digitally over 10 million times. Cheap devices and internet connectivity mean everything is digital. because we rely on the community to build the digital library. Benetech has already solved this problem for students in the United States. We have the ebooks.

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

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In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task. There’s so much more we could do to advance the path towards full digital inclusion of the world’s people with print disabilities.