Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 11, 2013
Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 16, 2011
For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 8, 2011
All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We believe that having more minds working simultaneously on a problem increases the odds of solving that problem well and quickly.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Our team also made a dramatic investment in teacher training efforts, by not only providing several webinars each month, but also delivering our hands-on professional development workshops nationwide. The news that this is the largest accessible Arabic book collection in the world is bittersweet. Is Spanish more your bag?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 1, 2010
after my first visit to the country of Qatar. The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. Mada: Qatar Assistive Technology Center Since the conference didn’t get formally going until noon on Sunday, I had the chance to squeeze in a morning visit to Qatar’s ICT Ministry.
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