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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

So in Spanish, it’s with a J so it would sound an English jajaja, but in English, it’s with an H, but the H in Spanish is silent. 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. It started only in Brazil. How can I go back?

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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. In retail, Amazon is so 2012. It is a China-based company that now has merchandise sales volume that is more than Amazon and eBay combined. There are now 2.4 New Industry Leaders. Social Media.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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