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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). a11y accessibility Bookshare engineering executive Gerardo GoRead innovation open source Read2Go'

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day

Have Fun - Do Good

GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! Mission: "Spot.Us

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term.

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