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

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Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

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While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. Community-building/engagement is related to but not identical to content engagement. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

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Don't assume that content/form that is relevant to you or your existing audiences will be relevant to people from other backgrounds. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

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By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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