Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Bookshare.org.in (India) My South Asian trip is mainly exploratory, with one notable exception. Bookshare.org is going international, and India is one of our focus countries for this expansion. My first visit after the India Economic Summit was to National Association for the Blind (India) to see Dipendra Manocha.

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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. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Viewing WhatsApp attachments is actually somewhat easier than accessing the same kinds of attachments sent through email. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate. 2) Information Hub.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The Goal The goal is pretty clear: insuring that every person on the planet with a serious print disability has access to the books and other printed material that they need to get an education, make a living and be included in society. So, your lawyer’s opinion may vary, and is likely to be better informed on the legal aspects.

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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. It is one of the BRIC nations with its economy growing at 8% annually.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. Bookshare is also picking up steam in India. We have members all over the world, but Bookshare India is the biggest outside of the United States right now. Bookshare is a unique library.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Technology has greatly increased the ease with which we can access news and services and serve others. However, if we are truly intent on using technology to serve and help others we cannot forget to make sure tools we use, whether they are websites or apps, are accessible to all. Pacific time.

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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. 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

With additional education girls earn more, contribute to higher rates of economic growth on the national level, delay the onset of sexual activity, are less likely to contract HIV, have smaller and healthier families, and survive childbirth at higher rates, he noted. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. Nonprofits tend to mostly tweet content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local. 2) Tweet or retweet 2-10 times daily from early morning to late evening.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We know, however, that we’ve only scratched the surface of meeting the global need for access to books and information. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. While the majority of our members are U.S. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To provide free surgeries to the world’s neediest nations on the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. Educate Girls ● educategirls.ngo. Fundação Roberto Marinho ● frm.ong. United States.

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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.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

They currently partner with 48 local organizations in 17 countries that work to secure equal educational access and high-quality education for all children. Areas served: US, India, South Africa. The National Education Association Foundation is a national nonprofit and philanthropic organization based in Washington, DC.

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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

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He has taken on delivering print access as his personal project after his retirement from a senior police force role.

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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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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

I think having the platform of Pride Month helps reach those with limited access to a world outside of their own, surrounded by people telling them they need saving or to not make the choice to be queer. .” “We’re extremely loving and supportive of each other in the LGBTQ+ community 365 days a year.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

We’ll continue to maintain our strong focus on sharing practical, actionable insights, as opposed to vague concepts and theory, and on keeping the conferences accessible – tickets are just $95 to $175 and include access to the full-day programs, plus breakfast and lunch. New Delhi, India – December TBA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Nonprofits get free access to Google Analytics, a robust tool that tracks what turns your audience on or off when they land on your site. Learn who your followers are, what issues they care about, which posts are firing up your base, and what types of content are gaining steam and going viral. 2 – Make Your Website Shine.

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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. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. ” She also told us that their Youth Projects’ video was aired nationally on the Foxtel network in Australia. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

national experience. The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. It’s what makes our Bookshare service legally possible. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S. 2 — Make Your Website Shine.

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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

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” MomsRising.org ([link] is a national organization with a social media reach of 3.5 Flickr Photo by alshepmcr.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In India, one out of two SAP employees is volunteering on a community project focused on improving educational opportunities through tutoring or enhancing school infrastructure and resources. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Seven Billion Actions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

monitor election results in Mexico and India. Those of us in developed nations are fortunate in some ways that great amounts of data are available -- data about our people, places, and activities. But for many people in the world, especially in developing nations, the data simply isn't available.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Technology innovation is also driven by government and national security concerns, and surveillance technology is increasingly used to monitor citizens, leading to the “fracture” of the World Wide Web as we know it and to decreased entrepreneurship. Technology innovations in energy and water also take prominence.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Jasper, Indiana: Hotspots and Wireless Access Points. Chicago, Illinois: Making Tech Accessible to Nonprofits. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology. Sunday, September 17, 2017. Tuesday, September 19, 2017. Thursday, September 21, 2017.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 19, 2007

" Fortune magazine calls water the oil of the 21st century — 'the precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations.'"-- Food & Water Watch The 1993 novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing , takes place in 2048 in a world where corporations control water, and Northern and Southern California are in a civil water war. Here are tips from the EPA.

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