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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

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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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world. Since we first began offering this option three years ago, Bookshare members have downloaded over 150,000 MP3 files from the collection.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Being based in Silicon Valley, we have the benefit of seeing the future being invented constantly. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S. The first was the ebook.

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