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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. A handful of countries have exceptions that work this way (Australia for one), but the Treaty did not recommend this approach.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. As always, you can also review the speaking notes by downloading the file for your own review.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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