Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So, we’re creating a new place where techies can find social tech applications that resonate with their personal passion for change! Through a funded partnership with the Mada Center in Qatar, in 2011 we will pilot Arabic language capability and content, enabling Bookshare to start serving readers throughout the Arabic-speaking world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

after my first visit to the country of Qatar. The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. As he pointed out in Doha, top companies rarely publish in scientific journals, compared to the amount of know-how they disclose in patent applications. I’m on the plane heading back to the U.S.

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