Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

She’s an incredible social entrepreneur I just visited with in Nairobi, Kenya. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology).

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. As people become digitally connected, they gain access fundraise from empathetic individuals around the world. Blockchain to combat corruption.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But ebooks and audio books are by far the most popular accessible formats, and publishers do sell them (although ironically many of these have digital rights management technologies designed to defeat illegal copying but also stop accessibility technology).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I knew that was going to be me very soon -- and a blog, in many ways, is like a digital version of that envelope. I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. Like Mother Teresa talked about how America was rich in money, but poor in spirit.

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