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JUNE 19, 2013

As you devise the treaty, please realize that any procedures that needlessly add costs to the inexpensive provision of accessible books will effectively result in denial of access. That’s one dollar per book in the developing world.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

This analysis has resulted in a clearer understanding of contents of the archive and generated quantitative results that can answer questions about which police units or commanders may have been responsible for disappearances.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Bookshare is the result of joint efforts of our partners in the education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities. Case in point: our accessible online library, Bookshare. Our technical tools by themselves don’t make change: it is these communities using our tools that create social good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The court directed the prosecutors to investigate higher up the police’s chain of command and as a result, Bol de la Cruz was arrested last June. After returning to Palo Alto, I continued to process and clean the data drawn in our latest sample of documents, which will be used to fortify our analysis for the trial.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2012

The resulting video library would allow nonprofits to tell their stories and reach a broader base of philanthropists and foundations, while it would also help philanthropists be strategic about and engaged in their giving. They therefore came up with the idea to create an online archive of video interviews with the leaders of nonprofits.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? This effort has now resulted in the addition of over 11,000 books to the Bookshare collection and was made possible through the initial support of the Lavelle Fund.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2010

As a result, I recently received the following complaint letter from one of our long-term members, Chancey Fleet: Jim, I would like to register a complaint! Bookshare is piling on books faster than I can read the titles.

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APRIL 24, 2018

What if we could scan once, proofread the resulting scan, and share that ebook with tens of thousands of eager readers? In late 1999, I had just seen the original Napster product, and I knew we had thousands of families scanning the same Harry Potter book on our reading machines for people who were blind or dyslexic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 26, 2008

It's exciting to see these results from the dedication of Viji Dilip, our Bookshare International Program Manager, and our Indian partners. The Indian Express said Bookshare.org inks pact with three organisations in India. And, the Hindustan Times also talked about our Online Library for the Blind.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The software’s diagram component, results chains, conceptual models and threat ratings allowed her to carefully analyze the impact of wildfires on sedimentation and water quality in these areas. Miradi helped Elaina determine that sedimentation due to wildfires is the main threat to reefs in Guam’s Sella Bay and Cetti Bay.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We’re extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished with Bookshare over the past four years and are hopeful that by the end of our OSEP contract term, we’ll have delivered double the results we initially proposed. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

As a result, strong DRM has the unintended effect of preventing people with disabilities from reading the text that they are entitled to. We at Benetech are therefore a proponent of “social” DRM formats that allow interoperability with assistive technology (AT) devices and software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Not all such stops actually result in a search or arrest. I joined the NYCLU team, where we worked on data collected by the New York Police Department about their “stop and frisk” practices. Stop and frisk” is the common name used to reference police stopping a pedestrian.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States. During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As a result, people with disabilities were left behind, facing insurmountable barriers to opportunities in education, employment, and social inclusion. As a result, we quickly became the world’s largest online library for people with print disabilities. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming.

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JUNE 16, 2011

As a result, we are increasingly working with other disability organizations in other countries to extend Bookshare’s ability to serve people with disabilities. . • These publisher agreements have also included permissions to distribute books outside the United States: most frequently, we are provided global rights.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Trachoma has been around f or thousands of years, but as the result of development and targeted interventions, it is now limited to an estimated 57 countries, often affecting poor, rural communities that lack the tools for basic hygiene, clean water and adequate sanitation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Our Environmental team is helping to bring results-based management to the conservation and biodiversity field. We are database experts who help to answer the key question in human rights: who did what to whom? We are expert witnesses in war crimes trials, helping bring an end to impunity.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

This loan was the result of a conversation I had with Kushal Chakrabarti, the founder of the Vittana Foundation. And, education is the way out of poverty. This weekend, I made my first educational microloan, to Claudia Belén García Royz of Nicaragua, who is studying to be an industrial engineer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2006

The blood sugar measurement device has a pager transmitter to send the test results to CPI. That way, the buddy can contact their friend and encourage them to test or to deal with a test result. Not monitoring blood sugar leads to the bad outcomes. CPI's idea is to link up the person with diabetes with a buddy who cares about them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 14, 2010

As someone was injured as a result of an accident, Rich knows that there can be severe consequences for people with these kinds of disabilities if they don't maintain muscle tone in their limbs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I have half a dozen great connections as a result. Chuck and Jerry Colonna hosted a reception at Boulder’s Impact Hub (such a cool organization, I am a founding member of the San Francisco Impact Hub) to connect me with the tech community in Boulder. We mainly commiserated about the challenges of the app business model!

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DECEMBER 15, 2006

BRAC is one of the social entrepreneurship field's best example of what a results-oriented team can accomplish even in the most difficult and poverty-stricken environment. All of this with a culture of accountability and results at a massive scale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home. Gabby Giffords clearly struggles with communications: Mark Kelly forthrightly described her aphasia as knowing what she wants to say, but being unable to get the words out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

Our concern is that if in the future decision makers depend on crowdsourcing, bad decisions are likely to result -- decisions that impact lives. If decision makers simply had a map, they could have made better decisions more quickly, more accurately, and with less complication than if they had tried to use crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Guzmán’s findings helped support arguments by prosecutors that high-level National Police officers were aware of orders given for the planning and design of operations like the one that resulted in García’s disappearance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2009

One of the problems we've seen is the unfortunate feedback loop of loss of polar ice packs , which leads to more open ocean instead of ice cover which leads to more heat absorbed from the sun, which results in more loss of polar ice cover. The panels interlock somewhat alike to a jigsaw, and there's secret sauce and magic in the materials.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Our team is thrilled about the piece, and we're getting lots of phone calls and email as a result. It is really exciting when a news team takes the time to dig in and understand the story. I think this is the first time we have had national coverage of Bookshare.org, which turned five years old this week!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2009

We're doing the planning by starting with our team: we did an all-company survey and then yesterday we did a two hour meeting to go over the survey results and discuss them. We are working on a new strategic plan, our first in years (we've been working off of the original Benetech plan with minor updates for 8 years).

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JUNE 25, 2014

We’d pick projects that had the opportunity for a five- or 10-fold improvement in results, or might revolutionize the way people do something. The solutions that catch fire with their intended users would then be scaled up. Why is this idea exciting? Because it inverts the power structure and pushes innovation to the edges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

The outcomes of the brainstorm aren’t for me to share, although I look forward to tweeting/blogging as some of these results hit the web. The Think Different Summit was 15-20 smart people, led by an experienced facilitator, trying to imagine the future of the learning disability rights movement.

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MAY 8, 2006

We were delighted by the feedback from the users and the C·A·R staff about the results, and we're planning to press ahead to raise money to take this project to the next stage.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Each new content delivery system is eagerly tested by technically oriented blind individuals or the organizations serving them, often to result in disappointment and widespread advice to avoid wasting limited resources on inaccessible content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 23, 2006

Seva sent my buddy, David Green, to work with the Aravind Eye Hospital to some great results! And Larry's background with founding the Well and Seva Foundation is especially notable. The next year or two should be very interesting as Google.org sets forth on its path.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

One social entrepreneur said that all of his funding is allowed to be used for innovation, because he promises an end result, not a precise method of how to get there. The goal is to raise a total of $10 million by 2014, and the donors commit to providing the money over a three-year period. Not all of the SEs were as enthusiastic.

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