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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. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare and our other Access to Literacy initiatives, including the DIAGRAM Center and Route 66 Literacy, all made big strides this year through the significant dedication of the community that makes it all happen. How people access our books also got a whole lot more interesting in 2012. 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

NTEN

These brave and bold new solutions are founded on two simple concepts: Your systems should actively recognize and classify constituents using the same language and rules as your organization. He and his wife currently live in the United Arab Emirates and enjoy traveling widely.