Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. and there’s a general feeling something is going to happen. So, your lawyer’s opinion may vary, and is likely to be better informed on the legal aspects.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. As people become digitally connected, they gain access fundraise from empathetic individuals around the world. 1,171,000,000.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Of the 3 million NGOs that operate in India, most are small and dependent on volunteers.

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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

MAY 27, 2015

While the meeting was going on, we heard that Spain’s government had forwarded the treaty to their parliament for ratification. We’re doing a ton of work with partners in India , the first country to ratify it, to allow people in India to take full advantage of India’s now-favorable copyright environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. Since Viji was raised in India, she began looking at the educational challenges faced by people from that country. In countries outside the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. Ultimately, this community should have equal access to all of the books that are needed for education, employment and social inclusion. Article 2(c).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Wouldn’t it make more sense to make it easier for people with disabilities to get access to the books they need for education and employment? We don’t have to ask for permission from the publisher or author.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Our goal is to provide accessible books to many more people worldwide, rather than make the maximum financial return.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Its mission is to offer products and services that help telecenters become self-sustainable while providing low-cost public access to computers and the Internet. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

And that means advocacy and access can happen in ways similar to open government efforts. We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America. If we offer solutions in the cloud, we can provide configuration, sure, but we can offer a way for data to be captured that extends to multiple organizations. Read all the interim reports.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Lock Step: “A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.” Collaboration enables governments and the development sector to get and better understand data. “Dark webs” develop that disallow government monitoring.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women. In mid- to low-income countries this statistic soars to a 25-40 percent access gap between women and men. Even if it is for an hour each day, women will access the Web. There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Many communities, especially in impoverished and remote locations, lack sufficient healthcare services.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Many communities, especially in impoverished and remote locations, lack sufficient healthcare services.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

Even five months after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered, worldwide vaccination efforts remain a constant news topic, especially in the face of new infection waves that are currently surging in India and other countries. Our hearts and minds go out to India and its people in this terrible acute crisis phase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. But I knew nothing about international relations, development, political science, civil society,et al. It's been a great experience so far.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

What surprised me the most (you all probably already knew this), is that the Sudanese government officials who were close to Osama bin Laden (who lived there from 1991-1996) are cooperating with the American counterterrorism authorities, so the United States doesn't want to rock the counterterrorism information boat by upsetting them about Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. There is controlled access. More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I think that in an age where what we're facing often seems very vast and faceless - huge institutions, corporations, or undemocratic governments - I think that the real answers don't so much lie in, they can, but not always, big ticket solutions. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. There is also a really practical level of source access. Our primary goal is to provide that empowering employment.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Last week at the United Nations General Assembly , Equal Measures 2030 launched a multi-country policymaker survey that explored perceptions of progress on gender-related issues and access to and use of data to inform decisions. Gender equality is a cross-cutting and must not be considered as a single policy issue in the eyes of governments.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. Another Schwab social entrepreneur, Richard Jefferson of Australia-based CAMBIA, spoke on behalf of greater transparency in patent databases as a crucial start in realizing greater access to the knowledge embedded in patents.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. And another thing, make your communication accessible and inclusive. So I know there’s an example in India that nonprofits in India are using WhatsApp because, you know, it’s such a huge piece of land. So it’s working.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

So oftentimes if a woman is doing something that has economic value, it often gets undervalued in society, and in particular in these kinds of countries and communities, where she may be uneducated, have very limited access to the market. The likelihood of exploitation is much higher.

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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 the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Visiting the Hon.

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