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!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 20, 2015
She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). We go way back with her firm.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. All e-books should have an audio capacity, using whatever smartphone or music playing device a person has in their pocket. a11y accessibility Bookshare disabilities ebooks education equality Reading students tech4good UNICEF'
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. The primary goal in the Valley is massive change, because when you’re a for-profit that magnitude usually yields massive profits. The first was the ebook.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 25, 2022
You might try reaching out to businesses, artists, or other people in your neighborhood to see if they’d be willing to list things on your store (either as a donation or for a share of the profits) or produce branded items like mugs and hats based on popular products. 8) Digital download donation rewards. 9) Movie screenings.
Qgiv
JUNE 9, 2021
Download eBook. If this event is virtual, you can tell the story online through videos, images, and audio. You can share the profits and your supporters will be excited to take the plants home. You can even charge a ticket for supporters to enter, with each of the farmers making their own profit as well.
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