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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

People with disabilities like blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, physical limitations and returning vets with brain injuries -- anyone who cannot simply pick up a printed book and read it. About the dozens of tributes we read at Bookshare from students, from teachers, from leaders, from publishers, all appreciating Robin’s work.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As the founder of the largest library for people who are blind or who have other significant disabilities that prevent them from reading printed texts (such as dyslexia or brain injuries), I think this is a terrible idea. That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a library. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

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in the United States rather receive 20% of all giving. We won the Audience Award which led to a lot of national attention being on national television tens of thousands of dollars in donations from people we had never heard of. Student, thank-yous, yes, oh, my god. And get this, the top 400 nonprofits in the world.

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