Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. In technical terms, this means that the next version of the DAISY format, version 4, will be the same as EPUB3, the main format used by commercial publishers of ebooks.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. First, it is critical to keep engaging in legal advocacy for ratification of two landmark United Nations disability treaties.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook. With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. No, we’re not being sued (and we want to keep it that way).
Connection Cafe
JUNE 22, 2016
A change in expectations has been spurred by savvy consumers and their unprecedented access to technological advances in their daily life. As a fundraiser today, no doubt you’ve heard of the concepts covered in this npEXPERTS eBook. Donors today want to be in the driver’s seat.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. But, the advocacy groups present in Geneva felt that the U.S.
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