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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

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Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Back to School in Brazil. Even in the U.S.,

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Back to School in Brazil. Even in the U.S.,

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

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Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. is four times higher than in Brazil.

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

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Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Now we, too, are investing major efforts in aggregating Spanish-language titles.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

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That worries me, because I don’t think I’ve heard about a groundswell of demand for changing Chafee in the United States, other than when one textbook publisher's representatives get up in public and sound like banking executives from five years ago (if the government would just stop regulating us, we'd take care of everything).

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Breaking News on the Global Treaty from Kareem Dale

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The United States Government has long been a leader in producing and facilitating the dissemination of materials accessible to blind and visually impaired persons. Tags: Kareem Dale blind SCCR18 copyright Obama copyfight SCCR global library Bookshare WIPO.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. Enough said! Visiting the Hon.

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