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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book. We can do better!

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our Bookshare library has over 550,000 books that have been delivered digitally over 10 million times. We have the technology. Cheap devices and internet connectivity mean everything is digital. We have the ebooks. We have a new business model. because we rely on the community to build the digital library.

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing.

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Are You Passionate about Technology and Social Good? Benetech Needs You!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest post by Betsy Beaumon, President, Benetech We are seeking visionary leaders to join Benetech in applying technology to advance the rights of disadvantaged people around the world. Benetech is organized as a nonprofit, but run like a business. You’ve come to the right place: Benetech.

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12 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good

EcoCards in an online store of digital e-cards. Humble Bundle is an online store that sells games, ebooks, and software. Owned by Facebook, Instagram recently launched “Shopping Checkout” for businesses. The 2019 Global NGO Technology Survey is now live! EcoCards.org :: ecocards.org.

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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. The Problem with Traditional DRM Traditional “strong” Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions have traditionally been the most common way to control access to online books.

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. Thank you for your support!

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