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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And it’s free with a phone plan. So this is me in the Amazon. So I was working in the Amazon for a really long time. I hadn’t lived in the Amazon before. So in WhatsApp, you need to have the phone numbers of the person you’re communicating with. We can’t go back. How can I go back?

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. After I sold that, then Michael decided he wanted to be an agent when he sold the first Patty Hearst book in four phone calls. We also have Ernest Callenbach , who wrote the first book on the environment, Ecotopia.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I wanted to go out and experience the world, so I went at nineteen years old to the Amazon in Ecuador and ended up working with indigenous women who were struggling because there had been a oil contamination (four times Exxon Valdez) on their traditional lands. Britt Bravo: Why did you start World Pulse? What was your first step?

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Photos are the dominant form of data being shared over the Internet, mostly on Facebook and mostly from phones (68 percent). There are well over 5 billion mobile phone users worldwide, of a population of some 7.1

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