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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Mobile Solution: Responsive Design on ictQATAR

Forum One

ictQATAR is the website for the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology for the Government of Qatar, which is in charge of technology innovation and implementation throughout the country. read more.

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Mobile Solution: Responsive Design on ictQATAR

Forum One

ictQATAR is the website for the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology for the Government of Qatar, which is in charge of technology innovation and implementation throughout the country. read more.

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AmFund’s Best and Worst Dates for Special Event Fundraising

DipJar

The FIFA World Cup will take place in Qatar this Fall. Our experienced Development staff will ensure that your next event is primed to bring in the necessary funds that you need to support your worthy cause. Even the dates with smaller events, like the Kentucky Derby, are good to avoid.

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ictQATAR Web Redesign Demonstrates Technology Leadership in the Gulf

Forum One

Several months of strategic planning, audience research, usability and accessibility testing, and of course, web development, culminated in the flagship website for the information technology sector in Qatar. The site debuted in early April after a global effort between ictQATAR communications staff and the Forum One team.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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.

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