Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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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

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. Everything from news to shopping to their friends and influencers was accessible to them online. .

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. The Gender Parity Index is a UNESCO measurement of access to education for both males and females. According to the nonprofit American Association of University Women , the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? As an independent territory of the United States, the schools of Puerto Rico are subject to the same federal laws and IDEA initiatives as every school in the 50 states.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. intranet) access, AUPs are important to protect young users against. to or accessing the network. Lost productivity.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for those with permanent or temporary disabilities, these companies are accused of violating Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by lacking the proper digital accommodations to enable access to their coveted online offerings. Everybody deserves to have that full and equal access to the world around them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The challenge to providing help to this quarter of the world’s people is the growing body of anti-terrorism laws in the world, like the USA Patriot Act and Executive Order 13224 in the United States. These laws prohibit financial transactions with individuals and organizations associated with terrorism. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. We will try the case twice in our courtroom, once under the Second Life Terms of Service Agreement and once at common law. I learned a lot.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

10:00 - 10:20 - (E) Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV. 11:20 - 11:40 - (M) Jeff Jarvis, Associate Professor and Director of the Interactive Journalism program at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. 11:40 - 12:10 - “Will Law and Policy Kill the Social Communications Revolution Before It Starts?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. The University of Chicago Law School is a great example of instructions for listeners. Also consider checking out a growing library of resources at the We Are Media Podcasting Toolbox.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Universities have programs on learning how to run social enterprises. Once universities have courses in a subject area, it would seem clear that the term is quite generic. Here is the letter I'm sending to the USPTO supporting their initial recommendation against granting this registered trademark in the U.S.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

David Dunlop, who many of you will know as from Cornell University, spent his life there, took 13 years to get a $100 million-plus gift. And because they trusted him at the university, because he was so successful, they were willing to wait for this. . Local university, my wife was working there as a major gift person.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

As with most legislation, it is unlikely that this bill will become a law in its current form as passed by the House, however it begins a conversation among the House, Senate and Administration on the next phase of COVID-19 relief. 5M for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. On May 15, the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. First, Bookshare has more than 200,000 accessible titles in English available to blind people in Africa.

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