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MAY 15, 2012

Poet presents the images within the text, which allows the describer to fully understand the context. This is especially true as more and more important textbook content is only presented in a graphical form. Sighted readers receive all the text and images in a printed book so the subject comes across completely.

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JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo has publically shared many of his presentations on these and other topics, which are available via SlideShare. Clean Water Project , an effort to strengthen the capacity of Latin American clean water organizations through enhanced data platforms.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

RHoK Global presented a perfect opportunity to support the sustainability of an existing partner and thus connect individual developers and corporate teams around the globe with the chance to apply their energy, enthusiasm and experience for social benefit.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It's nonstop great talks, performances and presentations, from people at the top of their game. of these presentations will end up on the web soon. Many people are aware of both the social focus and high quality videos that come out of TED. Many (most? And, the networking is also great (because of who the performances attract).

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JANUARY 24, 2011

I was able to share her predicament with the people there, and the chair of one of the organizations present jumped to offer his assistance to this parent, since he had worked on LD advocacy in her very state. Although the topic was on learning disabilities, one of the funders present had a strong interest in environmental ideas.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

They all had big picture goals, and some of them made explicit funding asks during their lightning presentations. I see the same kind of energy present in these groups that I saw in the early days of the private rocket business in the 1980s (and to be honest, in the social entrepreneurship movement of today!).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Awards were presented in five areas: Environment, Economic Development, Education, Equality and Health. A Guest Beneblog by Teresa Throckmorton, Benetech's CFO Walking into the Santa Clara Convention Center last night looked very much like so many other black tie events – but that’s where the similarity ended.

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APRIL 23, 2010

The dataset can be used to replicate the analysis presented in our report, "Descriptive Statistics From Statements to the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission," and for extended analysis of statistical patterns of human rights violations reported to the TRC.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Using his incredible connections in the legal field, he obtained a chance for the two of us to present to the Copyright Committee of the Association of American Publishers. We quickly came up with Bookshare as a better and more descriptive name. He took the idea one step further.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

The intention is to define an XML content model which will make it easier to present alternatives to the original graphical content for persons who are blind or print disabled. Should be a huge resource for the field: check out the product matrices in the Research and Development section of the DIAGRAM web site.

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MARCH 3, 2016

The United States Senate has a terrific opportunity to expand opportunity The United States Senate has just been presented with the ratification package for the Marrakesh Treaty.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

on choosing to be a nonprofit or a for-profit, based on my For Love or Lucre SSIR article 9/26 Kicking off the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series 10/1 Speaking at the Disability Rights Advocates board meeting 10/5 Duke Fuqua MBA High Tech Club Panel (Cloud Computing /Social Entrepreneurship panels) 10/5 Duke CASE Award for Enterprising (..)

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Thanks to the effort led by Robin, four of the top five educational publishers recently presented their future roadmaps including this vision of inclusive publishing, of global accessibility. If it works, libraries like Bookshare would mainly be put out of business. And Robin knew so clearly that’s the right thing to do.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, a really bright student who can pull everything together just before the exams might present with a red light a third of the way into the quarter, but still be ok. I was able to talk to one of the senior team at Purdue about this at the recent launch of Purdue's Silicon Valley presence.

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JUNE 10, 2011

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. The centerpiece of our Benetech board of directors meeting this week was the Benetech Human Rights Program. Each of our quarterly meetings tends to focus on big strategic issues facing Benetech.

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JULY 15, 2014

The Treaty will take effect only after 20 ratifications are presented to WIPO. We hope that many other countries will follow India’s ratification. Its signature period has now ended. Going forward, new countries that want to abide by the Treaty provisions would need to directly ratify it.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Four of the social entrepreneurs then made brief presentations about their GRI proposals that had been chosen by the WEF to present to the conference. Martin Fisher of KickStart noted that technology innovations don’t tend to be adopted by poor rural farmers: technology that could change their lives dramatically for the better.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Dr. Patrick Ball, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Benetech’s Human Rights Program, presented research data from six years of Archive analysis during a conference at the University of Texas where the digital repository was unveiled. You can read about Benetech’s findings from the Archive here and here.

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JUNE 21, 2009

Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook had the tough gig of presenting a lunch keynote outside under a tent in lower Sproul Plaza (mucho noise and people talking). I thought Arianna Huffington did a good job as the opening keynoter hitting on the service theme. Announcing All For Good was a big piece of the event, of course.

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APRIL 25, 2007

SEEING BEYOND SALON: An evening of social-networking, creativity & big-picture thinking Thurs, May 17, 111 Minna Gallery | $10 | for tickets go to: www.seeingbeyondsight.org/salon Only $5 in advance with special coupon for Lighthouse for the Blind friends (use coupon: “lighthouse” AFTER entering credit card info) [5:30pm] Social networking with (..)

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

We had a mind-blowing presentation from one of the engineering leaders on Venice's efforts to respond to sea level rise with giant barriers to the Venice lagoon. People mentioned that there had been a reluctance to talk about adaptation, since it would take the focus off of the critical challenge of mitigation.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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MAY 16, 2010

The software also helps them present the end results of their conservation efforts to a wide variety of audiences and solicit public support for their projects. You can check out a very cool case study that includes more details about these projects here.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

While titles in English and other European languages comprise the majority of our current collection, we are also developing the capability to handle non-European script and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Colorado University doctoral student Kyle Thompson concluded with a presentation on the Business Model Canvas , a more agile way to plan for a new enterprise than a traditional business plan. On the spot, Kyle had me do the canvas for Benetech’s Bookshare social enterprise: took us less than ten minutes to capture the essence of Bookshare!

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Thanks to a legion of people who care about usability and access, ebooks have more and more enabled great flexibility in presentation. The Kindle having text-to-speech is a presentation option, not a format of distribution. You can easily set the Kindle to make the text size larger. Does that violate the large print rights?

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MARCH 31, 2007

Salman Ahmed got the crowd pumping as before, and then we met our four rockstar presenters (well, at least one is literally a rock star, and the other three have a pretty good claim to the status): Jeff Skoll, Peter Gabriel, Sally Osberg and Muhammad Yunus. And it was exciting!

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MARCH 18, 2012

Give technical and non-technical presentations of HRP projects at conferences. Write technical descriptions of HRP methods and projects at many levels of detail for academic publications, white papers, grant applications, grant reports, and internal documentation. Automate generation of publications based on data using LaTeX and Sweave.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

A strong example of this work was shown on October 18th when Benetech statistical consultant Daniel Guzmán presented expert legal testimony in the trial of two former agents of the Guatemalan National Police, Abraham Lancerio Gómez and Héctor Roderico Ramírez.

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AUGUST 19, 2009

There was much food for thought, as our management team develops our plan further for presentation and discussion with our board of directors. We heard about how much our commitment to transparency was valued, among other aspects of our culture. And, our team is quite interested in seeing what we do with their input (so am I)!

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APRIL 6, 2007

I've just co-authored an essay that presents the challenges of accessing capital for expansion for social enterprises. The paper, Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Addressing the Critical Gaps in Risk-Taking Capital for Social Enterprise, was published by the Skoll Centre at Oxford's Said Business School.

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JULY 18, 2008

If you are interested in new ideas in accessibility, check out the video of this presentation. But, these applications are on the web, so you can do some clever stuff. Actually, Charles and TV are doing the clever stuff. It was a little like a cooking show: they whip up a fully cooked roast in about an hour, if you follow my analogy.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Betsy Beaumon, Carrie Karnos, Rick Costa and I visited the terrific Mozilla offices in Mountain View last Monday to give the team a big picture view of what Benetech does and present a range of volunteer projects that they could dive into right away.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Having just heard the new director of MIT’s Media Lab, Joi Ito , present the Labs’ latest approach to innovation—“Deploy or Die”—I was inspired to answer the question. More specifically: “how would you audaciously reinvest that amount of money to best help the world’s 3.5 billion poorest people?”

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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

He noted that PWD will say very different things when their “handlers” are present in the form of teachers, librarians, rehab people, nonprofit people. When teacher is present, it's about textbook access. Kevin pointed out that he had recently done an extensive report on information access needs of people with disabilities.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech is committed to communication and cooperation with employees, whether physically present or not. We seek to establish workplace flexibility that enables greater effectiveness without sacrificing teamwork and spirit. 7 We are committed to personal and professional development.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

A few days earlier, I read an article where DNA-sampling of freshwater ponds can reveal the presence/absence of the invasive American bullfrogs even when normal monitoring techniques fail - this technique can even detect "ghosts" - species that have been but are no longer present!

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