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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger. Since we first began offering this option three years ago, Bookshare members have downloaded over 150,000 MP3 files from the collection.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. Audios, files. Sometimes it was short audios, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and sometimes they were really long audios.