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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

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Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service.

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Welcome, Mark Roberts!

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With his proven execution in scaling business systems and infrastructures that shaped the growth of award-winning service products for multiple high profile Silicon Valley technology companies, he has the perfect pedigree to spearhead engineering at Benetech as we continue to innovate in the technology-for-good space.

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Bookshare Creates Opportunities For Gifted Students

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Two years ago, Steffon worked with us to a Bookshare how-to video and a video profile which also features his teacher Jill Dunaway who helped him become a Bookshare member. You can read our full profile of Steffon here. Here is our full profile of Jessica Pinto which lists the books she is now reading.

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Incredibly Important Opening at Benetech

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I need a senior partner to help me, our team and our board raise Benetech's profile, communicate our key messages and secure crucial resources. That's our rocket fuel: how we grow our impact by another integer factor and get new ventures started.

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DIAGRAM Center

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We are using the modular approach of the DAISY Authoring and Interchange Framework, which defines modules and profiles for the representation of books, journals, etc. 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.

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There Are No Online Security Shortcuts for Human Rights

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Following an admiring Wired.com profile of the web-based chat program, Cryptocat, a fair amount of discussion ensued about the security risks of using a tool with this kind of web-based design. However, there are times where we need to weigh in on a technical issue that impacts human rights activists.

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The other social entrepreneurs profiled are David Green and Victoria Hale, two folks I greatly admire. I'm proud to have had Stanford GSB spend the time profiling Benetech, and proud to be in the same case as David and Victoria!