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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities. My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

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Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. intranet) access, AUPs are important to protect young users against. to or accessing the network. organization’s data if the user is an employee) when accessing or while. If software installation is required for a user’s. Lost productivity.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Green Technology. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

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Do not reference or identify any person, entity, trademark, copyright, or property in your post unless you and/or your group have received that person's/entity's permission in writing. Limit one submission per individual. Do not copy the work of any other person or entity. (b) b) Third Party Rights. c) Grant of Rights to Sponsor.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet. However, access to the tools isn't enough. Reform Copyright.