Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

David Evan Harris - Global Lives David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. questions surrounding globalization and social justice. employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed. His forthcoming.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

David Evan Harris - Global Lives. David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. Follow @aaronMSB at @lightscamerahelp.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. NetSquared organizers plan events because they have skills to share, want to give back, and want to make the world a better place. Newest NetSquared Groups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. Today I was at the beginning of the Microsoft Global Library Forum, and Bill Gates spoke to our (reasonably small) group.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). The goal of the Treaty in rough terms is to set a Chafee-style exemption as a norm around the world, and enable cross-border sharing of accessible materials.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. Microsoft programs that share the common objective of supporting and. The evidence for this is. greatest impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil).

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

But like I said, you could listen to her sharing wisdom on podcasts, and webinars, and events and fill, you know, hours of your day and it would be worth it. I’m going to stop sharing. I’ll start sharing my slides. And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. How did you promote it?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Though the web is useful for connecting people around a single cause on a global scale, this support is often difficult to express offline. There were some complications with this, we didnt have enough ethnic avatars, so the Brazilian one was a blonde girl, as we knew there were also blonde girls in Brazil. How did you promote it?

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police. My own experience with police reform. it was next to impossible in many other countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

And so it became really important in my mind for me to think about another project that would actually get me looking at and get me talking about what's happening in this country, with the awareness that what we do here as individuals, as consumers, as citizens, has this global effect. So just trying to get us to really see that.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Photos are the dominant form of data being shared over the Internet, mostly on Facebook and mostly from phones (68 percent). Apple iOS is second with nearly 40 percent market share. There are now 2.4

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. So, we’re happy to share the American (and Canadian and British and Indian) content we already have.

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