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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure. Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting. It remains an option under the Treaty, though.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. copyright law. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. Bookshare has grown tremendously from the 3,000 students that we were serving in 2007.

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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? And it seems to work pretty well for stimulating creativity. What about a life-saving drug that poor countries can't afford?

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