Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 17, 2013
So I was recently taken by surprise when I discovered by mere coincidence that he had become the Chief of Staff for the Interim President of Paraguay, Federico Franco! In 1985, he started Fundación Paraguaya in order to develop social innovations that could help create jobs and increase family income among the country’s poor.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 25, 2014
More specifically: “how would you audaciously reinvest that amount of money to best help the world’s 3.5 “What would you do with a billion dollars to combat economic inequality?” asked Chris Anderson, head of TED, at the closing session of this year’s conference. billion poorest people?”
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 24, 2010
This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MARCH 31, 2006
That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. Only the tenacity of the filmmakers got this story out of Martin, who otherwise would be talking about his dream of helping turn poor farmers into rural entrepreneurs.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). to support a Treaty that would mainly help people with disabilities outside the U.S. Disability advocates have been asking me how they can help increase the chances for this effort.
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