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JUNE 10, 2008

I don't think we've ever had such extensive and thoughtful coverage of a topic: there are the video segments, slideshows, extended interviews and more. Frontline World is airing a terrific piece on our Guatemala work tonight on KQED in the Bay Area (9 pm PT). You can view it online right now. It already aired on the east coast.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Finally, CGI invited me to represent Benetech’s Commitment to Action in a Video Announcement feature at the Annual Meeting, which you can watch below. Three of my peers had really great ideas for software for solving significant problems in their work, and I’m still excited about these possibilities for collaboration.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Just spotted a nice video piece on the SoCap conference that features Benetech as one of the new crop of socially responsible businesses. The San Francisco ABC News reporter/anchor Teresa Garcia came out and interviewed Kevin Jones of GoodCap, Tim Freundlich of Calvert and yours truly.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Many people are aware of both the social focus and high quality videos that come out of TED. I'm spending the week at the TED2009 conference, bylined The Great Unveiling. The last TED conference I attended was TED2, which was more than 20 years ago!

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JANUARY 28, 2007

After the opening show, we were treated to a short video extolling the virtues of investing in Malaysia. Willing participants in a transaction of an evening of entertainment for a four minute video. Knowing their audience it prominently featured a beautiful golf course (and of course beautiful Malaysian women).

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JANUARY 17, 2014

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. You see, our world is no longer dominated exclusively by the printed word, but also by images and video—and we believe it’s a world everyone should be part of. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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APRIL 30, 2012

Second year MBA student and CASE Fellow Joanne Sprague wrote a thoughtful blog to reflect on my visit with CASE, where you can also watch the full video of my ESI lecture.

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JANUARY 27, 2008

I'm looking forward to making more video of my talks available for folks who are interested. Right after the award for B4E, I gave a keynote at the NCTI conference in DC that went over well. The full talk should be available soon, but eSchoolNews has a short version up on their website.

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JULY 18, 2008

If you are interested in new ideas in accessibility, check out the video of this presentation. But, these applications are on the web, so you can do some clever stuff. Actually, Charles and TV are doing the clever stuff. It was a little like a cooking show: they whip up a fully cooked roast in about an hour, if you follow my analogy.

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JUNE 8, 2010

A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video. Excludes video. • Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). This draft can be downloaded from the DAISY Consortium. This was recently presented by the U.S. Government delegation, as a next step possibility. . •

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JUNE 13, 2007

The show will be broadcast on Thursday, June 14th, on KLIV radio, 1590 AM in the Bay Area, and is also available as a video on the STS (Center for Science, Technology & Society) website. It was a great hour of conversation around social change and the tech community's role.

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

We have talented members of the team that whip together graphics and even videos to promote these! It was fun singing along in the Bookshare holiday video. We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members.

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JUNE 13, 2016

A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos. His biggest prescription is around connecting with these human forces. A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet. I found this to be an eminently sensible approach.

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AUGUST 30, 2005

A great quote from a five minute video on accessible e-text books produced by college students in New York. "For the first time I can read what I want, when I want, where I want, by myself." It really delivers the message of how access to books changes the lives of students with disabilities.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Jamie Love pulled together a playlist of videos of Rahul at WIPO events: the one where he was joyfully trying out a scooter for the first time is indelibly imprinted on me. I understand from our peers in India that he was also essential in the passing of India’s recent copyright exception.

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MAY 2, 2012

During the party we had a surprise video message from Stevie Wonder, a long-time Bookshare member who told us that he is using Read2Go to read accessible books from the Bookshare library. “I They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program.

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AUGUST 10, 2005

Here is the video and text from our CBS-Channel Five: Silicon Valley Ten Years After Netscape's IPO. We got some great local TV coverage this week, thanks to a referral from the Skoll Foundation and Community Foundation Silicon Valley.

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AUGUST 4, 2005

This was a pretty exciting project: it's also a video case study. Jim Phills and Lyn Denend of Stanford Graudate School of Business just published a case entitled Social Entrepreneurs: Correcting Market Failures , where Benetech was one of the featured social enterprises. They have kindly permitted us to post an excerpt on our web page.

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AUGUST 8, 2005

Quindi makes capturing meeting video/audio and action items really easy. Last week Jane Simchuk, Dave Offen and I got a demonstration of Quindi: the Meeting Capture tool. The link to Quindi came from my old buddy Patti Price, who I've known for many years as a leading speech technology researcher.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Meeting participants suggested that we invest in more accessible training and documentation – from video tutorials to more dynamic manuals – and facilitate users connecting to one another to meet capacity needs.

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DECEMBER 3, 2004

My talk this week at Stanford was videoed and placed on the EE380 class website. Technology and Human Rights Talk. I covered our Human Rights program, including the Martus Project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (which joined Benetech last year).

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AUGUST 7, 2013

It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. “literary and artistic works … in the form of text, notation and/or related illustrations, whether published or otherwise made publicly available in any media;”. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c). Defines Authorized Entity.

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JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field.

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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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JULY 9, 2018

Stevie recorded a short video that was shown twice at plenary sessions of the diplomats in Marrakesh. and “The CEO of Caterpillar wants to bulldoze the blind.” We reached out to Stevie Wonder who promised to give a concert to the negotiators if they negotiated a treaty that the blind would endorse.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The Mobile Martus prototype allows users to send crucial data from the field—text, photographs, audio and video—to the Martus network of secure servers. The data is automatically encrypted on the mobile phone, and when being sent to the server, so it is protected in case the phone is lost, stolen or confiscated.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

The request went like this: I need an Android application for collecting certain important information, as text/surveys/videos/pictures, from staff/contractors/whistleblowers/clients/the public that I can upload to a server so we can respond/analyze/put on a map/put into a progress report.

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

This morning we saw live video of democracy protesters in Yemen who have been following the discussions via streaming video. The event helped create an extended dialog between participants of the Arab Spring and the developers of technology tools that activists have used to circumvent government censorship.

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