Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
– Share resources, such as ebooks, blog posts, and articles about NGO technology that you think would be useful to the followers of the Twitter Takeover. 9:30am IST (Ahmedabad): NGOBOX (India). . – Share success stories and examples of good use of technology by NGOs, NPOs, and charities.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
We’re already delivering services at scale in three other countries—Canada, the UK, and India. We have the ebooks. The Global Treaty for the Blind makes it legal to create ebooks for people with disabilities without having to pay a royalty or getting permission. This one does. We just need the resources to scale.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
People with print disabilities around the world have a right to high-quality ebooks that they can read with assistive technology. These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 7, 2013
These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. We began with Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and have recently added Arabic, which opened up our services to countries all across the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 11, 2013
Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. The Lavelle Foundation is supporting us to expand Bookshare in India, which will likely be our first full-scale replication of Bookshare outside the U.S.
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