Audio eBook Help Tech 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 28, 2014
Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers. Additionally, Gerardo helped conceive our major new effort to ignite new tech social enterprise through Benetech Labs.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 20, 2015
We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). and we needed more help. Last week I was able to visit Nairobi, and I sat down with Carol to find out how we could help her. Unfortunately, early last year, Steve got sick.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2016
Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. We were trying to analyze the Benetech secret sauce: how do we go about changing the world for the better as Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit tech company? The first was the ebook.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 25, 2022
Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. While this is unlikely to draw a big crowd, it can help you gain trust among your current and prospective donors. These clues will help lead them to locate the ultimate prize concealed in a public place.
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