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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits

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Many corporations use "enterprise resource planning" solutions to overcome similar business challenges. He and his wife currently live in the United Arab Emirates and enjoy traveling widely. Nonprofit organizations simply have not had the resources to make use of similar solutions.