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Welcome to TechSoup Brazil!

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TechSoup Brazil , a collaborative effort of Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN) and TechSoup Global, was launched has just officially launched after many months of planning. If you work with nonprofits or NGOs in Brazil or want to learn more, check out their site (in Portugese). Welcome, Brazil! but not quite.

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Heading out on the road

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As I headed out the door, I ran into Scott Rains and we had a picture taken of Scott in his Brazil jersey (after the U.S., I'm a big Brazil fan too). Tags: Rains Brazil Bookshare. Scott is helping with the Bookshare volunteer community as a Benetech Fellow. I can tell World Cup fever is really hitting!

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I Tags: print disabled print disabilities SCCR.

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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty. Tags: print disabled blind SCCR18 copyright copyfight SCCR Bookshare WIPO. Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S.

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Authorized Entities Trusted Intermediaries

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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WiserEarth.org Goes Multi-lingual: Guest Post by Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This effort was realized thanks to more than 10 months of work by a team of 43 volunteer translators based in Brazil, France, Mexico and the US. Tags: socialnetworks. Peggy Duvette is the Executive Director of WiserEarth and Director of Natural Capital Institute (NCI).

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Green IT Accreditation Goes International

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The big green IT news this week is that the program has now expanded to 40 countries (PDF) worldwide including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the 27 countries of the European Union.

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