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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Nonprofit Guide to US Digital Privacy Laws: CCPA, SHIELD

Whole Whale

This article is for the overworked techie in charge of all of the digital things who just panicked that it is 2020 and there are new privacy laws. There are also multiple bills moving through legislature in no less than 25 other states and the federal government ( COPRA ) that could become law in 2020.

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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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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

However, Page and Brin believed that they could create a better system to rank the relationships between websites. The new system was initially called BackRub because of the backlinking. Everything from news to shopping to their friends and influencers was accessible to them online. . Thankfully, they changed the name to Google.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. 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.

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Share Your Green Tech Story and Win a Laptop or Tablet!

Tech Soup

Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. iPad 2 from CDI.

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Share Your Green Tech Story and Win a Laptop or Tablet!

Tech Soup

Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. iPad 2 from CDI.

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