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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This last September, Benetech won a 3 million dollar award over one year from OSEP for a project we call Leveraging Impact through Technology, or, very appropriately, LIT. Exciting new tools, including a free, open source Android ebook reader and a free web-based ebook reader along with an accessible bookshelf in “the cloud.”

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

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App Recommendations from TechSoup Staff: Part Two

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Wes Holing, Web Content Developer. Duolingo – is a free language-learning app and website that is also a crowdsourced web translation service. Their team of journalists pull together a politics and technology news feed that condenses the essential information of the day and makes easy to look at on the small screen.

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10 Types of Fundraising Event Software for Virtual Events

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For instance, for virtual auctions you’ll likely need to use some sort of bidding software , whether app-based or web-based. Download eBook. Mobile bidding is a solution that enables auction guests to view and bid on items from their smartphones by either a web browser (web-based) or a mobile app (app-based).

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