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Optimistic about Marrakesh Treaty!

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Of course, Mexico might well beat both the USA and Canada, but Mexico is in the Latin America group at WBU. In North America, Canada was rated as “probable” and the USA as a “possible.” There is a fair amount of friendly competition going on to see which country ratifies first.

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UpEnergy: cool for-profit social enterprise

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They are already active in Africa and Latin America, in countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The founding team includes leaders from each of the first three Gold Standard clean cookstove projects (and these projects delivered more than half a million stoves). The economics are compelling.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

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Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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Bookshare Creates Opportunities For Gifted Students

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New Mexico high school student Jessica Pinto also depends on Bookshare’s accessible digital texts to meet top academic standards. He plans to include his Bookshare videos in his portfolio and we hope that he will also join us as a Bookshare volunteer proofreader. You can read our full profile of Steffon here.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

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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.

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

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Random House Mondadori is one of Spain’s top three publishers and also has significant market share in Mexico and across South and Central America. We’re very excited to announce that Random House Mondadori has recently signed our Bookshare agreement, giving us world rights to their titles.

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More debate on Just Another Emperor

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Easy enough to use Ashoka's handy-dandy search engine at [link] Africa: 236 Asia: 547 Europe: 190 Middle East & North Africa: 34 North America: 232 South America: 476 Global: 10 Even if we throw all of global into North America and Europe, and not worrying about the fact that the majority of North American Ashoka fellows are actually in Mexico(!),