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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! The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • Most publishers don’t say yes or no.

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Find an Awesome Nonprofit Tech Training Near You

Tech Soup

We're a global movement with chapters in 24 countries. Every month, our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. The link need to be like so: Africa. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in.

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Shovel-ready Online Civic Projects #1: Global Development Commons

Forum One

Below I outline Project #1 - the "Global Development Commons". We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. Project #1 Global Development Commons.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Speed up collaboration by allowing users to review time-sensitive work in the cloud in real time from any device, instead of through traditional file-transfer applications and internal servers. What's Available?

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Growing the NetSquared Community

Tech Soup

But supporting a rapidly expanding global network of volunteers is difficult, so we've enlisted seven of our most engaged organizers to act as Regional Ambassadors. The link need to be like so: Africa. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in.