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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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Bookshare International Now Serves Thirty Countries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech’s Bookshare library continues to expand its international service providing accessible books and publications to members in more than 30 countries. These partners include the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB), the Hoerbuecherei des OSBV Talking Book Library in Austria, and the Dorina Nowill Foundation in Brazil.?

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. questions surrounding globalization and social justice. employers in Brazil and the US.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. David Evan Harris - Global Lives. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. My main point is that the two high grounds are not the name in impact. It’s the right long-term solution.

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Breakthrough on Global Access at WIPO in Geneva!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., Answer: Many Americans want to access materials from other countries, both in English and many other languages, for education, employment and cultural reasons.