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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil.

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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., In addition, the two national organizations of blind people both just passed formal resolutions in favor of the treaty proposal. the European Union and others.

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

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The one BerkShare note honors the local Mohican nation; W.E.B. There are now over 200 local currencies in use worldwide, according to a database maintained by the Schumacher Center, with popularity greatest in Europe and Brazil. Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

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I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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