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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Speed Geeking at the Gates Foundation Global Library Program about Bookshare International 9/22 Stanford Social Innovation Review online webinar "Nonprofit, For-profit, or Something in Between?" Of course, I have other trips planned for just meetings as well. 9/19 (tomorrow!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Background on this can be reviewed at the Knowledge Ecology International website. But, if you were in the legal department at Microsoft, where it probably costs the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars to review and process any contract, it makes a ton of sense. Do I work on this $50 million licensing deal on a short deadline?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

We used it to review our planning as we wrapped up this move. Coincidentally, just as we began announcing HRDAG’s spin-off to our supporters we learned from Darius Cuplinskas, Director of the Open Society Institute's Information Program, about this interesting Spin-Off Tool Kit made available by the Vera Institute of Justice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Next step is to review it with our partners in developing Miradi: groups like The Nature Conservancy, WCS and WWF. We had a summer MBA intern from Haas Business School (at UC Berkeley), Jeff Rauenhorst, and he wrote a draft launch plan which we're just putting the finishing touches on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The way this flaw emerged has motivated us to review Martus's security model, and we are pleased with how well it has stood up. We think this was a very useful lesson to all of us who publish crypto software ("mind your p 's and q 's," Heninger wrote), and we are taking the opportunity to review the last ten years of Martus security thinking.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django. Maintain and develop our team's automated data processing and analysis infrastructure (POSIX-environment command line tools built on bash, make, python, and R).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

The Poet application allows users to upload a digital book, quickly review and navigate to images in the text, and add image descriptions that assist readers with print disabilities such as vision impairments. Before this initiative, critical illustrations in math and science books could only be studied by those reading traditional texts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Over the week their volunteers helped us put in several reviews, added a dozen books to the collection, received a basic Bookshare proofreading tutorial and learned more about our engineering volunteer opportunities – several expressed interest in staying involved past the end of Service week.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Finally, the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Education reviewed Bookshare’s status as an authorized entity as part of the awards process for the Bookshare for Education project. In addition, the Library of Congress is the agency responsible for issuing regulations supporting Section 121.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The dedication of my colleagues to find facts about human rights violations that can stand up in both the court of law and peer-reviewed academic journals has inspired me to make statistical analysis for the greater good my life pursuit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 3, 2005

Good summary in the attached review post: Does Google Library violate copyright? But, the disputes between Google and the publishing industry and authors needs to be concluded before things will move forward. The core question is whether Google's Library program is a fair use of copyrighted material.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

After the last WIPO session in November, the World Blind Union convened a group of experts to review the current Treaty draft and make recommendations to the WBU on the most important issues for WBU to work on in this next session. We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week.

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JUNE 11, 2015

If the code is public and freely available for review, then the end-users, their experts, and the open source community at large can verify that the software does exactly what it claims to do and that there are no “back doors.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We stay in regular touch with the AAP about any major changes to policies at Bookshare and review our legal agreements (for end users, schools, and volunteers) with them. A year before launching Bookshare, we conferred with the major publishers in the U.S. through the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

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MAY 10, 2006

Here's the review I wrote for the book's listing on Amazon.com: As a long-term leader in the field of social applications of information technology, I want to strongly recommend Jonathan Peizer's new book, THE DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE. His insights about technology in the social sector have been especially valuable.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

As a Route 66 Literacy user, you’ll see a great new user interface, progress tracking, and a cool new video review feature. We also reach more people through our partnership with the Lions Clubs International in their Reading Action Program. We are excited as we jump into a new year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2004

This event has gotten some great press and news around the field, and I will presenting there on Wednesday and participating on the business plan review panel on Friday. I also saw an article in the Mercury yesterday about the Social Entrepreneurs boot camp at Santa Clara University.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

For example, if an author comes to us concerned about the quality of one of their books on Bookshare, we’ll allow them to review the copy and if it has mistakes we’ll pull it until they are fixed.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2004

They spend many hours scanning, proofing, cataloging and reviewing our collection, now over 15,000 books. Bookshare.org, our on-line electronic book library for people with disabilities, is built by volunteers. These folks are dedicated to the concept that access to books should have no barriers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

They help us all with refrigerator reviews and the like, but they are also in the vanguard of health care reform. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. I also want to mention Consumer Reports.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

In addition, we hope to supply the Examiner additional information that may be relevant in reviewing this and similar applications in the future. On behalf of our nonprofit organization, Benetech, and the thousands of similarly situated social enterprises in the United States, we are writing to support this rejection.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Our summer volunteers write text book image descriptions, review and revise descriptions, provide technical assistance, and proofread children’s books with new image descriptions. Our main focus has been our text book image description project.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

Of course, since the Department of Education is the largest single funder of Bookshare and RFB&D, our policies for how to serve students (and which students qualify under IDEA for NIMAC-sourced content) have received extensive legal review by the Department’s attorneys.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. Benetech President's Update Winter 2011 I’m pleased to provide you you a detailed update on Benetech for the first time in two years.

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