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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He now lives in rural Kenya working on eye care. Andrew’s focus is on curing blindness: 80% of the people he sees in rural Kenya can have their blindness reversed. I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Your Top 10 Content Strategy Questions (Finally!) Answered

NTEN

Nearly all of the web communication challenges I’ve encountered with the groups I’ve worked with stem from basic content planning and governance issues. People come to your website, first and foremost, to get information, so Content Strategy is relevant for any communications work you do. So, Content Strategy was born!

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. It is a new type of content for us that will hopefully inspire you to think beyond the day-to-day use of technology to the ways that technology can transform our approach to solving big social problems. also reports some news that effect libraries. All Things D.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Ginny Mies is a former journalist and former senior editor at PC World Magazine and now TechSoup Global's content curator. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Ginny Mies is a former journalist and former senior editor at PC World Magazine and now TechSoup Global's content curator. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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