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AUGUST 7, 2013

Such countries have to let WIPO know formally that their domestic law requires a commerciality test, and I believe they also have to let WIPO whether it affects imports of accessible materials into that country from elsewhere.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2007

Our new environmental project management software, Miradi , just went into its beta testing. I thought that meant a small beta test, but it turns out that we already have testers registered from 16 different countries on 6 different continents!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 13, 2005

We're conducting tests of the Talking Lights technology here in Benetech's offices this week. This week there will be around eight test blind subjects that will be traveling around the office along predefined routes; these routes the subjects are traveling will be timed.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Steve went to India for more tests. Unfortunately, early last year, Steve got sick. The doctors in Kenya struggled with a diagnosis. Meanwhile, Carol became pregnant with their first child. They diagnosed him with a rare, serious disease called dermatomyositis.

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

Of course, we talked about data entry and QA testing, but also less obvious and exciting alternatives that have great potential both to revitalize the South Bronx and address the problem of the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2008

Miradi was beta tested by over 600 users in over 80 countries prior to the 2.0 Miradi 2.0 is the first public release of this software that was created as a joint venture between Benetech and CMP, a consortium of global conservation organizations committed to improving the practice of conservation. public release. Read the Miradi 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Miradi (the new name of what we used to call the e-Adaptive Management software) has been in beta test for a while and we've gotten great feedback from all over the world from environmental practitioners. We're piloting our new Miradi.org website, which is our environmental project management software.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

The need to requalify for dyslexia services over and over again at great expense (thousands of dollars each time) to get accommodations in school and for testing came across as a huge problem. At Bookshare, we don’t think that people with LD get “cured,” because that's not our understanding of the science.

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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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JUNE 13, 2016

Along the way of making his case, he takes on a lot of the popular tech and business for social good memes, like: One Laptop Per Child The Hole-in-the-Wall experiment The Arab Spring as social media revolution Toms Shoes The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (CK Prahalad) Telecenters The fetish of school testing (aka No Child Left Behind) Google (..)

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JULY 18, 2006

in testing Route 66 and giving us lots of great feedback. Great article today in the San Jose Mercury News. Palo Alto company's innovative software uses photos to teach the developmentally disabled. We really appreciate our local partner, C.A.R., We enjoy working with Benetech's funders, who share our passion for changing the world.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Mark oversees the development, testing, and deployment of new technology across all of Benetech’s program areas, including Benetech Labs and SocialCoding4Good.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

John Crossman demonstrated the completely new version of the Bookshare on-line library, which is currently in the first round of beta tests. John Glass demonstrated the new version of Victor Reader Soft from HumanWare, one of our key access technology partners.

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JUNE 11, 2015

Do I choose Safe Number One that’s advertised to have half-inch steel walls, an inch thick door, six locking bolts, and is tested by an independent agency to confirm that the contents will survive for two hours in a fire? Now, let’s say I’m choosing a safe for my valuables.

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JANUARY 24, 2009

The Y also organized hikes and other recreational activities. I was particularly fond of the talk series, where important policy makers and leaders would come to Caltech and talk to 15 or 20 people at the Y and drink Mountain Chablis!

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JULY 3, 2013

A 3D graphic test on paper substrate of a circuit diagram. Through this R&D Center, we are working to revolutionize the availability of accessible images and tactile graphics by targeting standards and developing open source tools that help close the gap between what technology can do automatically and what requires expert human work.

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APRIL 18, 2006

In the final analysis, most people are going to use the "I-know-it-when-I-see-it" test. Did that person really create something new, either as a startup or a novel approach in an existing organization?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

And we now have 500 highly qualified Mentor Teachers—very special people who assist their peers in using Bookshare and assist us in testing new products and features. DIAGRAM This increase in accessible images would not have been possible without great tools. Luckily, we know some people who are into that stuff.

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MARCH 8, 2008

The Marshall Islands are still suffering as a results of atom bomb tests. Unlike on the mainland, where there is demand for scrap metal (and the ability to process the metal), I have to assume the economics don't make sense. Of course, much of the wreckage is left over from World War II and its immediate aftermath.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

This represents thousands of keys out of the millions tested: approximately 0.2% On Tuesday, a paper by researchers from a Swiss team (Lenstra et al.) showed that thousands of public keys published on the Internet in key servers shared a divisor, that is, p or q. of the keys they harvested shared either p or q.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2006

I consulted with Lewis (our testing expert and former tech support for these machines) and together with the customer, we were able get the reading machine working again. There was a PC hidden inside our reading machines and the PCÂ’s clock battery finally ran out.

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MARCH 31, 2006

Just some quick examples: - Heidi Kuhn of Roots of Peace: Heidi has actually driven a great deal of real landmine removal, and she is very strong on the human and public side of the issue (somewhere where we are not strong).

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JUNE 20, 2004

We went to a hospital in the center of the city that did testing both for HIV and for diagnostics that help guide the use of anti-retroviral therapies. Our bus then went out to a clinic in a poorer area of the town: we were quite a spectacle with motorcycle policemen zooming around us and clearing the way.

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JULY 14, 2009

Test it out. A chance for peer interaction and advice to help you solve the most challenging problems, because in this room there are several people who have already solved the biggest problem you’re facing right now. Ask them about it. We’re going to hear from those people.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007. We planned a typical beta test size of ten to twenty users, but had over 450 beta testers in more than 65 countries!

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

His specialty: user testing. Paul is spending his six-month fellowship testing software – for a company that allows him to do cutting edge work and cut his teeth even deeper on the engineering side. For the past five years he worked customizing and integrating a single set of software systems that Benetech could use globally.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

We are exploring this in Benetech Labs , where, together with our partners, we examine the viability of new software-for-good projects, prototype, and test new applications with the potential to deliver large-scale benefits to society.

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MAY 7, 2013

The "Three-Step Test" Chokehold. The three-step test is part of international copyright law meant to allow countries to reflect their own values in their copyright exceptions. The United States'' copyright exception for the blind is a shining example of something that complies with the three-step test. Which leads to #3.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Therefore, it is impossible to test the strength of the trend versus the magnitude of the error. Due to the weaknesses in the data, there is no way of reproducibly or transparently verifying or testing this claim. Second, and even more importantly, the graphs showing a worldwide decline in war-related lethality, in Figures 2.5

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APRIL 7, 2013

We are now gearing up to beta test the prototype application and hope to soon release it to our growing Martus user community. For instance, after the first global Martus Users Group Meeting , which ND-Burma hosted in Chiang Mai last year, it became clear that it was paramount to prioritize our development of a Martus mobile application.

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