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Making Exercise Equipment Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rich Thesing, a long-time disability activist and fellow Fellow of the American Leadership Forum in Silicon Valley, has been thinking hard on how to make exercise equipment accessible. There are lots of exercycles that are in health clubs and exercise rooms around the world, but they lack minor accessibility features to make them usable.

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Ethics and Responsibility in Technology-for-Good: A Human-Centered Approach

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Context matters Building technology solutions for the social sector isn’t purely an armchair exercise, based on the thrill of empowering people in principle. Let me explain further. We first understand those we aspire to help and the real-world conditions in which they live and operate.

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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

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First, WIPO, with a mandate from its member nations, is working to address the need to change national laws and get more accessible books flowing—a process that will take a long time.

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Contemplating Boulder and Social Impact

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I was able to participate in the Naropa tradition of “bowing in” at the beginning of classes: a short meditation exercise to focus the mind on the people in the room. The majority of Naropa students in the class were working on their own social enterprise concepts.

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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs. Maybe there is a social enterprise in here!

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Benetech: President's Update

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Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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Karen Erickson at UNC Chapel Hill, Route 66 c ombines engaging content for older readers with research-driven pedagogy, allowing a teacher, parent, or friend to help the learner through reading, writing, and word study exercises.

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