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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Third, the print book is not universally accessible. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In general, we have patents and copyrights and trade secrets as commercial objects because we as a society think that it helps bring the benefits of new creations to everyone. What about literacy and education? Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I presented this seminar to University Extension Professionals. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. Youth trying to learn new art mediums, they often incorrectly use copyrighted works.they create a derivative work.a The title was " Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

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