Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

A tech guy from Egypt was the standout moment for me so far. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Our collection includes children’s books from Scholastic, contemporary books from Arab Scientific Publishers in Lebanon and literary books from the public domain from Kotobarabia in Egypt.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt. Susan Bazilli, an international human rights attorney, recently brought Martus to the attention of the women's rights community in Africa, through a posting to the Women's Information Technology Transfer site.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2004

There's more in the press release, and we will be expanding our efforts in Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria. We're just announcing this project. State has an active program tracking the state of human rights around the world. We are already working on the translations of Martus into Arabic and French.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2005

In less than 24 hours, I have had conversations about how to set up the ideal next generation foundation (so we can make helpful suggestions to the Google founders), how to bring digital books to the blind in Egypt, job creation in Cambodia, putting an incredible Paraguayan social entrepreneur's successes into wider distribution, tough political stands (..)

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