2013 Award Copyright Library 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field.
Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches. Green Technology.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Each year the Electronics Reuse Conference awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit. Library of Congress, working with the U.S. Kyle is only 30 years old but has done quite a lot already in his career.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2016
Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish. I always refer aspiring social entrepreneurs to the article when they ask me how they can win a Skoll Award. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S. Enter the Born Accessible movement.
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