Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Urgent Action Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean demonstrated this in 2019 when it awarded Articulação Nacional das Pescadoras Bahia a grant of $5,743 to strengthen women’s grassroots organizing in Brazil. To learn more and to access the latest ? Support local nonprofits and knowledge in the U.S. and internationally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2009

We've been supportive of an effort by the World Blind Union to get an international treaty in place that sets up a global system much like the one we have today in the United States. Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

. International Planned Parenthood Federation has an office on an alley in the Bermondsey section of London. 15andCounting is a campaign to demand better access to sexual health services and education for everyone, regardless of your age, gender or where you live. I stopped by there and heard a bit about their 15andcounting campaign.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. than ever have access to education, but too many drop out of school or. In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. There are new skills and experiences.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2011

The online event is hosted by our TechSoup Global Network Partner in Brazil, Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN). From the event site: What is a "jam"? Special guests will post initial thoughts and participants will respond with ideas and proposals through typed posts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. Our meeting goal is discussing how to implement the global library for the disabled and share the efforts for accessibility across the sector. Sound generally, but not the whole issue.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Empowering Cameroonians to Accelerate Open Data, Open Access, and Open Education. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Evento De Design De Aplicativos Para Celular. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S.,

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

If they’re able to figure out that single password, they can access all of your personal information. It’s like leaving the key to your front door on a hook outside or under the mat; any passerby can easily use it access your account. This is the safest way to access the internet outside of the office.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. Any woman who is just coming on from Kashmir has access to some kind of connectivity to either an Internet cafe, or a cell phone, or a computer at her work. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And another thing, make your communication accessible and inclusive. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. It started only in Brazil. Naira: You have access. What about accessibility? .” And in some other. . . people from other cultures, you can just say, “Hi. Steven: Okay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2009

The following is the email I received from Kareem Dale in its entirety (and I have his permission to distribute it): Access to information and ideas is essential for personal and professional growth and full engagement in a democratic society. But engagement can be severely limited when information is not available in accessible formats.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Get ready for Internet-connected smart devices that you’ll wear on your wrist or face or access in your car in 2014. There are now 2.4 They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. First, Bookshare has more than 200,000 accessible titles in English available to blind people in Africa. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership. Visiting the Hon.

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