Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Access to information and knowledge is a basic human right and a necessary first step towards personal, economic, and social development. The good news is that there are now unprecedented opportunities to transform the lives of these millions by removing barriers of access to information  —   and this is where you can help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access. The biggest challenge for access is that it’s expensive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading'

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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. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

One of these sub-themes is “Accessibility: removing barriers and promoting disability-inclusive development.” Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. But what about everybody else?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

It's still a journey we are on and we've had many success till date - Skype reading sessions across countries, helping us get books to children across the country, audio books created for the blind , iPad apps being made of our content and so much more. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones. Channels used: Blog, Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Thank god for remote access! For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) For information about our event webcasts and remote participation, see [link] If you miss the live chat, catch the podcast audio video at MediaBerkman, at [link]. second enclosure???--the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

But I was constantly faced with technical glitches, particularly with Internet access. Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. Full of copyright issues. Remember that "aztex ascii garbage."?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

From Arkenstone to Bookshare The field of access to books by blind people is where Benetech has twice been the key engine of positive equilibrium change at scale, and we are already working on the third change. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

blurs the on-line/off-line boundary by extending network access to PDAs and cellular phones. Such mobile social communities extend the reach of electronic social interaction to millions of people who dont have regular or easy access to computers." More and more mobile social networks are becoming easier to access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Given that our goal was being as open as possible, it followed that our license choices were essentially around licenses that allowed for the greatest possible use and re-use because our initial hypothesis was, and continues to be, that being open allows us to fulfil our mission better than a traditional copyright model allows.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

The goal of the treaty is to make it possible for people who are blind, or have other print disabilities, to get access to the books they need for education, employment and inclusion in society--no matter where they live. We are at a point where accessibility can and should be the default mode for all books. under a Treaty.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., data for a chatbot algorithm) or how it will be used (e.g.,

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