Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Born Accessible: Working with publishers to ensure that any new ebook is accessible to people who read differently - with the goal of one day making Bookshare obsolete. Connected Civil Society: Applying machine learning and computer vision to document human rights violations and promote accountability in Syria in collaboration with the UN.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. To do so, we definitely need your help. billion poor and unbanked.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Solving a major problem involving information is beyond the capability of any one enterprise – no matter how terrific. Even in the tech industry, with its intense turf battle, companies have come to rely on open standards for data, for APIs, for technological plumbing. We need to see data as an expression of the voices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Yes it is so much better than twitter but all tech platforms have problems and as it grows in popularity there will be more. Ghost : Many folks who have moved off Substack have gone to Ghost which is an open-source platform with similar functionality. No outside platform is an oasis.

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