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NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Universally Accessible Demands Accessibility for All of Humanity. One of the best comments came from a developer who noted that one of her friends with learning disabilities really appreciates the Google feature that says "Did you mean" and corrects your spelling errors!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Just last month, the University of Texas at Austin made a large portion of the Archive available to the public unveiling a digital repository that contains 12 million of these critical records. You can read about Benetech’s findings from the Archive here and here.

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JULY 29, 2011

Steve hires people from disadvantaged backgrounds, both from the poorer parts of Nairobi as well as university students with impoverished rural backgrounds and people with disabilities. It was talking about the university students where Steve, a highly animated entrepreneur, gets even more enthusiastic.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Chuck is the president of Naropa University , but we first met when he was leading the Greyston Foundation, a pioneering social enterprise known for originally making brownies for Ben ‘n Jerry’s ice cream while employing formerly incarcerated individuals as the primary workforce.

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DECEMBER 13, 2015

Universal design gets a lot of well-deserved attention, and I was positively delighted by the plug for born accessible: Education stakeholders should develop a born accessible standard of learning resource design to help educators select and evaluate learning resources for accessibility and equity of learning experience.

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APRIL 20, 2013

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

My main talk was at a session on commercialization of university research. The underlying goal of spinning off university research is seeing that society actually benefits as much as possible from the immense investment we make in research. Here's what I said.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the STS meeting in Kyoto, I had the pleasure of meeting France Córdova, the president of Purdue University. Purdue has made a deal with Sungard to support Signals more widely at other universities: I hope this kind of tool makes a much wider impact! For example, an accessible version of a key book or item of course content.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. Like companies, university tech transfer offices are encouraged solely to find commercially valuable applications of inventions. We need university leaders incented to value the social applications equally.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Her students at Rice University have been busy inventing new tools and equipment for global health. Many universities do similar things, but Rice goes a key step further. Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

I was a bit surprised that CDPF was pretty dedicated to advancing the rights of people with disabilities, but seemed notably unenthusiastic about the idea of blind people going to university. We had noticed that there were no blind people at one of the big universities we had visited in Fuzhou. to get her university education.

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MAY 26, 2011

When I can find the time, I jump at the opportunity to visit universities. The universities I visit tend to be full of students and faculty committed to doing important and innovative work. It stimulates the same pleasure center that brainstorming does for me! My recent visit to Caltech was no exception.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Maria is a historical musicologist who is pursuing her PhD at Boston University. Maria also noted that students like herself are finding more scholarly books on Bookshare which expands her ability to research. She studies secular songs and theater music from the English Baroque period of the 1600’s.

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MAY 15, 2012

Groups such as high school or university clubs are welcome to participate. A pilot image description project at Brigham Young University is reaching out to students in the English, engineering, and education departments asking them to help ensure that every student has equal access to textbooks.

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MARCH 13, 2011

An exciting development is the recent offering of hosting services (through the help of PKP's main partner university, Simon Fraser U. Amazingly enough, more than 8500 journals are published with OJS, with institutions mainly running their own servers.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. The ability of that Indian blind student shouldn’t depend on whether she can get her university or a local blindness charity to do it for her.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential. With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The newly formed organization initially based its demands on select parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the Prisoners of Conscience campaign. In particular, it focused on freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of opinion and expression, humane treatment of prisoners and the right to a fair trial.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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MAY 12, 2009

Moreover, while in San Juan, Bookshare was able to attend the 11th Annual Assistive Technology Conference directed by the University of Puerto Rico’s Assistive Technology Program (PRATP). The presentation in Bayamon was attended by Igri Enriquez, director of the Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Impaired.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The other half of the day they go to university pursuing advanced studies in numerous different fields (I asked a bunch of the students their area of study and heard answers like business, law, accountancy and even forestry).

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APRIL 28, 2007

Bill Coleman and I will be speaking at Santa Clara University on Working to Change the World on May 24th, 2007. Program and Q&A Location: de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University Space is limited. It should be fun: I really enjoy talking with Bill and this is a chance to talk about what we both think really matters!

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JULY 6, 2011

No matter the topic, Haiku spans the linguistic divide as a universal form of artistic expression. Take for example Hipster Haiku in which the author rages against her urban setting, a far cry from the outdoor scenes set by Bash?.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Something called Zen Computer that gives you a meditation for every function key on the keyboard (the @ reminds you to consider your position in the universe!)).) An anthology of rejection letters. Seriously, you guys rock. I love this new pace and all the variety. Feel free to share this with whoever’s responsible for the awesomeness.

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APRIL 24, 2018

I was actually born at Georgetown University Hospital just one year after Gerry launched his legal career from there! Bookshare has gone on to become the world’s largest library for people with disabilities, serving more than half a million kids with disabilities in the U.S. Gerry was like a father to me.

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APRIL 26, 2009

I'm going to be heading to Washington DC this week to give a talk at the National Press Club on Bookshare and our new partnerships with universities and publishers. We've just been able to confirm Allan Adler of the Association of American Publishers as one of the participants. Should be very interesting.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

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. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

I’m Thushan Ganegedara, a 3 rd year undergraduate from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence.

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AUGUST 26, 2007

My eldest son, Jimmy, and I were able to attend a portion of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University last week. I was very excited to hear about the Messina Commons, a new project by the global Jesuit universities to share curriculum (similar to MIT's Open Courseware work). The head of Santa Clara, Fr.

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JULY 17, 2008

I got into a spirited debate with a Norwegian researcher about a paper entitled something like "Is DAISY Universally Designed?" Her conclusion was no, and her research was well done.

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MAY 14, 2013

and “Is the innovation growth accelerating?”

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

The caliber of attendees is amazing from all countries: ministers of education and science, top scientists, university presidents. I'm in Kyoto, Japan for the STS forum, an incredible gathering of top scientists and policy leaders from around the world. The event is the brainchild of Koji Omi, former Finance Minister of Japan.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

They recruited their staff from Nairobi slums as well as students from poor rural backgrounds who had made it to Nairobi universities. They made a great team: Steve was an enthusiastic salesman/CEO, passionate about building up Kenya through good IT jobs, and Carol ran the team. Carol Wanjiku Daproim went on to great success.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

Universal City Studios, Inc., However, Bookshare continues to rely on the Chafee Amendment to regularly scan thousands of books each year without publisher authorization—and to incorporate similarly scanned books provided by college and university partners—in response to ongoing requests from users with disabilities. of America v.

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MAY 17, 2013

His activities with the World Economic Forum include participation on the Education Global Agenda Council and he is a university professor of social entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Africa.

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JULY 9, 2018

Third, the print book is not universally accessible. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. Many books are never published because of the costs. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations.

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