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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We've worked with O'Reilly Media for a long time. They were the first publisher to sign on to deliver their books electronically to Bookshare back in 2003, and gave us permission to provide their books outside the U.S.

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MAY 31, 2008

I also watched them use licensed characters from top Asian media properties to create a fresh set of content. I could really see how they are continuing to leverage popular media properties (like the Bollywood videos) to enhance literacy. They are already well past doing just Indian languages.

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JULY 22, 2010

There were three demonstrations at the end of that session: I was most impressed with Dr. Hugh Herr of the MIT Media Lab, a double amputee who builds smart robotic feet that are better than regular human feet. Kareem wrote it up in a blog post about all the policy announcements, entitled The Power of Technology, The Power of Equality.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The MIT Media Lab showed off some really exciting technology that I immediately was thinking of disability applications. Yesterday was an amazing start on the week, hearing from Bill Gates, Al Gore, Seth Godin and many others mixed in with a fabulous vocal group (Naturally Seven) and my favorite, Regina Spektor. Many (most?

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JANUARY 17, 2014

417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

Benetech's Human Rights Program also received this year great recognition by the media and by experts in the field of human rights. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. HRP team members presented papers at academic conferences, published articles in academic journals, and offered many public talks.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Media lionizing those companies and universities that find social spin-offs for their inventions. The great thing about my proposal is that we already have examples of companies, universities, governments and media doing these things. National governments should encourage the creation of enterprises with explicitly social objectives.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Accessibility of digital media has been repeatedly and systematically denied because of digital measures to “protect” content. The digital measures designed to defeat piracy usually end up equating accessibility with piracy. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is being negotiated in secret.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Process, clean, and transform data.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Silicon Valley heavy Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media thinks Obama made a great choice. Previously Virginia's secretary of technology, Chopra will "promote technological innovation to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland," according to the White house.

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JUNE 13, 2009

A: For me specifically, government and social media (and not just Washington), social media, the Sunlight Foundation ( on government accountability and transparency, data.gov, etc.) People like me help get the word out. We need ways to make it easy, ways like All for Good. Q: What things are you working on?

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JUNE 13, 2016

Along the way of making his case, he takes on a lot of the popular tech and business for social good memes, like: One Laptop Per Child The Hole-in-the-Wall experiment The Arab Spring as social media revolution Toms Shoes The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (CK Prahalad) Telecenters The fetish of school testing (aka No Child Left Behind) Google (..)

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NOVEMBER 18, 2007

We'll be working for Guam to help set up a system for assistive technology and media for disabled students with nine Pacific island entities. We spent time talking with OSEP and our new partners from the University of Guam.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Mr. Shetty described AI’s need to explore in greater depth the conditions underlying human rights problems and to implement proactive, “upstream” strategies for their resolution, in addition to the more reactive approaches reflected in the organization’s established methods.

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MAY 18, 2008

IIT-Madras, our host institution, also had cool technology to show off, which is already being used in big media applications: a TV network came to discuss how it's worked for them in their language work.

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APRIL 14, 2008

The Alliance launched its media campaign shortly and Gore gave some previews of this when he met with the social entrepreneurs after the final keynote session (where Gore spokes and Paul Farmer was the fiery voice of the social entrepreneur).

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MAY 2, 2012

The first publisher to donate books to Bookshare, years ahead of their peers, was O’Reilly Media. Each month, we add more than 2,000 new books to the Bookshare collection and more than three quarters of those books come from socially responsible publishers who want to make their work available to all readers.

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OCTOBER 31, 2008

The ugly truth is out, and it is being picked up by international media that can hardly be accused of cozying up to the guerrilla, such as the New York Times.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2005

No publishers get why electronic media is important, and their absence is an acute problem. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

We have recommendations to government, companies, universities and the media around how to bring more of the benefits of humanity’s knowledge to the bulk of the planet, while balancing that with the needs of businesses to make money in bona fide profitable enterprises.

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AUGUST 7, 2013

literary and artistic works … in the form of text, notation and/or related illustrations, whether published or otherwise made publicly available in any media;”. Noteworthy Articles in the Treaty: Article 2(a). Works Covered. So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles.

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JANUARY 16, 2005

Janice is an experienced executive from the media and technology industries, and I am quite excited to have a senior executive adding her perspective in our operations! Another great piece of news is that Janice Carter has joined Benetech as our Director of Literacy Programs, and is now general manager of Bookshare.org.

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JULY 3, 2013

As the entire industry is changing the ways in which content is produced and as digital content becomes increasingly media rich, we want to ensure that all content that is born digital is also born accessible. Through intense collaboration, we are advancing open tools and standards so that accessibility is built into mainstream products.

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

While researching these incidents, HRW compiled a database of reported RAB killings based primarily on reports from Bangladeshi media, Bangladeshi human rights groups and HRW's own research. HRW concludes that between June 2004 and October 2006, the RAB killed at least 367 people in Bangladesh and tortured hundreds more.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There is much more work to be done to ensure accessibility of all content, including math, images and other media.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2006

There are some options, but the selection is limited: fewer than 5% of books are available in accessible media. And now publishers and authors are starting to pitch in by sending us content directly, such as the nearly 600 titles donated to us directly by O'Reilly Media, Inc., www.bookshare.org/oreillybooks.

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JUNE 27, 2008

The first step was to get the major players in the accessible media field together and agree. The Officer of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the Dept. did this a couple of months ago.

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JANUARY 31, 2007

Young Davos You get to meet up and coming business, media and political leaders: the people who will likely be at Davos in the future. My favorite of these was an invention that you swallow and it takes pictures of your digestive tract, instead of needing the dreaded sigmoidoscopy. It was nicknamed "the light at the end of the tunnel!"

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FEBRUARY 3, 2004

I talked to high tech corporate leaders, the heads of foundations, education ministers of different countries, several billionaires, major religious leaders, nonprofit (NGO in international parlance) leaders, the media, technology experts and other social entrepreneurs. But, going there made it clear that's not the right question.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Since retiring, she has donated time and energy and books to Bookshare so that all of us who cannot read print enjoy a wide variety of selections that are available nowhere else in accessible media. "To

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

To further enhance the impact of Mobile Martus, we are partnering with The Guardian Project , leaders in mobile security and verifiable mobile media. Guardian will also be enhancing its mobile media security tools to support the safe collection and transmission of human rights data.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Understandably, this issue has become quite controversial in reports throughout the media, including the blogosphere. The coverage has focused, however, not on the bulk of content in the report but on the Commission’s controversial recommendation to ban Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from holding future political office.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

As a result of Robert’s help, one of the very first donors I met was Sally Osberg, who was just starting as the head of Jeff Skoll’s foundation (Jeff was the first CEO of eBay, and also the founder of Participant Media, the people behind incredible movies like Good Night and Good Luck, An Inconvenient Truth and The Help, among dozens more).

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AUGUST 13, 2012

In 2012, we’ll be rolling out new branding, new media, and new stories all with the goal of getting better at what we do and raising our impact. Telling the Benetech story better is crucial to our future: crucial to making the social change at scale that we consider the essence of innovation.

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JANUARY 27, 2007

Moving on to dinner, I sat next to Garth Japhet of Soul City in South Africa, a doctor/social entrepreneur who leads an organization that uses media to influence behavior that affects HIV/AIDS. He gave me the direct advice of a social entrepreneur in the middle of marketing his first book: immensely useful.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage.

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JANUARY 26, 2006

Rory Stear, the head of Freeplay Energy, met with Nicholas Negroponte of MIT's Media Lab about their $100 laptop project. She also explained that the illiterate poor women she serves are more committed to literacy for their children than for themselves.

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