Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

Consider this: when you visit your doctor about a medical issue in the United States, you can be reasonably confident that it won''t shortly be on the front page of the local newspaper. Co-authored with Enrique Piracés, Benetech VP, Human Rights.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

At Benetech, we agree that braille is an essential literacy tool and that every child who needs it has the right to be taught braille. One major roadblock is the affordability of braille reading tools. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

be referred to as "the mobile" in this post) is an important ICT tool for. technological tools for what we need increases and the mobile is no. It is an extraordinary example of one of these tools. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. The mobile phone (henceforth to.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository. A starting point for change.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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