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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He uses this to analyze why many technology interventions are successful in the pilot phase and fail when they go to scale. In the pilot phase, you frequently have the best (human) conditions: the best partners and the best program staff making something work.

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Optimistic about Marrakesh Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They are busy planning for the implementation phase of the Marrakesh Treaty, assuming it takes effect in the coming year, as well as continuing the ratification campaign well beyond reaching the twenty-country milestone. Even the European mess didn’t dampen the attendees’ spirits.

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff. The bigger question is about how to structure the second phase. Awards programs are around providing incentives to encourage certain kinds of behaviors.

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Bookshare.org.in (India)

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Dipendra and I have been talking about working together for years, but during this meeting we were able to get down and plan out our work phase by phase. I'll have a ton more to say about Indian languages over the next few days! We're going to write a more detailed document together on this by email over the next month (we hope!),

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Route 66 Hits the News (and the road!)

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I think they knew we needed funding for the next phase of Route 66, now that we are spooling up our efforts. Our other main funder is the Special Hope Foundation , which just surprised us with a follow-on grant for Route 66 this month! So, our engineers are forging ahead with new features for Route 66.

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It wasn't until last year that we really moved into providing books for students with disabilities, and we're still in the beginning phases of providing every student with a print disability with an accessible version of every textbook and trade book they need for educational outcomes!

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

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By doing so, we’ve launched a new phase in the Martus project: the development of a truly interconnected Martus community, in which users work not only with Benetech, but also with each other.

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