Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., as well as our Human Rights Program, which supports activists fighting injustice around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The context We’ve been supporting the World Blind Union and other groups in the pursuit of a Treaty for the Visually Impaired for the last five or six years. publishers) pushed for these voluntary efforts to weaken support for a Treaty. To paraphrase Mark Twain, I didn’t have time to write a short blog post, so I wrote a long one.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec Supports Women in Technology. Another way they’re helping is through the internal Symantec Women's Action Network ( SWAN ) — which has eleven chapters and 1,350 members — and is designed to attract talented women and support their careers at Symantec. Employee Engagement and Giving.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

Here's the text of my article: My good friend from India, Joe Madiath, bumps into another man at a Davos party thrown by the Egyptians. The idea that a social entrepreneur serving the poorest of the poor in India might bump into a world famous politician is not a surprise here at the World Economic Forum. They say hi and shake hands.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. In India, women bloggers are threatened on Twitter with “live-telecasted gang-rape and acid attacks.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

There’s still time for your organization to secure important year-end gifts—if you can capture people’s attention and motivate them to support your cause. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. How can you break through the noise?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

A lot of Nepali men are working in the Middle East, or they go abroad to India to work, just because there isn't really a job market at all in Nepal. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. I said, "You write it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally. The Global Fund tries to measure those results, not so much by our own standards, but by the standards that the groups that we support set for themselves.

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