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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

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I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

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Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. With AI and resources from Google.org, Thorn has been able to identify to law enforcement close to 9,000 traffickers and 28,000 victims. My early career was in international development, working for the U.S.

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Spotlight on South Africa: Nonprofit Profiles from SANGONeT

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The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The organization focuses on issues that affect South Africans nationwide, such as land reform, housing, refugee law, and environmental rights. About SANGONet.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

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Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. What are legitimate constraints on free speech under international human rights law? Reconciling privacy concerns with your business model. Does your app use facial recognition?

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. This is on a personal computing level.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble. The I Pulled My Hair Out Blog tells us how to consolidate google accounts and here are the top ten gmail hacks.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

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The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change. The first was the ebook.

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