Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

After several days of training in Chennai and through Skype with me in California and the Worth Trust team in Chennai they started off with 30 books a month. For the employees English is not their first language and for some it was not the medium of instruction. However that did not stop them from trying, learning and working hard.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

When that happens, the chat participants use Skype instead. Students and tutors communicate privately on Skype as friends. These chats typically last one to two hours. Occasionally, slow internet connections make people's voices choppy or difficult to understand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer. And that's just two examples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

One of the best memories of Isaac was standing in the Schatzalp hotel holding a laptop to his ear like it was a cell phone, because someone had made a Skype connection to Nigeria. As he puts it: "shit business is serious business." Isaac is so big, it actually fit. Jimmy was very excited about the fair trade people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world.

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