Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

I hope you join us as we advance this global right and work towards making the Marrakesh Treaty as successful as possible, so that it can empower people with print disabilities—particularly those in developing countries—to live fuller lives based on equal access to knowledge. And when you sign the treaty, you haven’t succeeded.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

Benetech is committed to developing technology for underserved communities that can reap big benefits from improved access to information. So we’re especially proud to announce the launch of Miradi version 3, the enhanced version of our user-friendly environmental conservation software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 4, 2010

And we’re helping schools and teachers and parents and most of all people with disabilities get access to the information they need for school, work and society. And that’s the true measure of our impact: it’s what our partners and users do with the technology and the knowledge we provide that matters.

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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). This is a crucial point.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. We can do better!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We share all of our software and information under open licenses to make it easy for other nonprofits or socially conscious organizations to build upon them. There are more ways in which Benetech Labs differs from typical incubators. For example, we expect to conduct the Labs openly, so that anyone can see what’s in our pipeline.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Every table conversation brings a new perspective and a new idea: whether it’s new knowledge, a great contact or a new extension to the idea under discussion. The goal of these devices is to provide educational and informational content to villages with limited resources: the player is loud enough to play for 20-40 people at one time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

David Wiley's keynote was on the social returns from a new venture he helped create, Flat World Knowledge. When I attend conferences to give a keynote, I usually try to stick around for more of the conference and listen in to the other presenters. This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Through mentors, professional networks and investor forums, ZeroDivide brings a deep knowledge of what makes a venture successful. Technology Industry: Social entrepreneurs, information technology thought leaders, and executive/senior management in technology-related companies. But access to technology is just the starting point.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Elaina says that Miradi helped her determine what knowledge was needed by local residents to adopt behaviors that promote clean water. She says this information helped her target her campaign to 50,000 people in the South region of Guam instead of the 175,000 people on the entire island.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. In the face of such denial of access to information, a copyright exception that makes it possible for the charitable sector to serve these needs makes great sense.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our users depend on us to get things right, whether it’s protecting human rights information from attackers, ensuring a student has an accessible textbook in time for school, or guiding an environmentalist in the best ways to deploy their limited resources. We respect our partners’ knowledge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

E-books, therefore, make access to information an affordable reality, as more and more people, including students, have a device in their pocket capable of operating as an accessible e-reader: from inexpensive mobile phones and MP3 players to Braille note-takers that can store thousands of e-books in digital Braille.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

So for me, it was incredibly cool to be introduced to a new piece of technology that has a clever and (as far as I know) new approach to making information accessible to people with vision impairments. One area I’ve had the pleasure to focus a great deal of time and energy on is helping to improve the lives of people with vision impairments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 31, 2007

More knowledge leads to yet more emotion and reason to get yet more knowledge. Human industry is now fascinated with capture, flow, distribution, distortion of information coming at a firehose rate. But that is human-generated information. Like when you first discovered an open stack library in second grade.

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