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#NGOtech19: A 24-Hour Twitter Takeover for NGOs WorldWide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Join Nonprofit Tech for Good, Funraise , and the 2019 Global NGO Technology Report partners for a 24-hour Twitter Takeover on September 26! – Share resources, such as ebooks, blog posts, and articles about NGO technology that you think would be useful to the followers of the Twitter Takeover. . Save the Date!

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our Bookshare library has over 550,000 books that have been delivered digitally over 10 million times. Cheap devices and internet connectivity mean everything is digital. Our books will play on whatever tech the reader has in hand, even a $10 MP3 player. We have the ebooks. Let’s seize the opportunity!

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech is a tech social enterprise. Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing. I was able to demonstrate what we do with the files the students help generate, using our Read2Go application on an iPad.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 187: Strategies for Avoiding Tech Burnout

Connection Cafe

We already relied on technology to communicate before the pandemic, but over the past year we’ve become even more dependent on video and digital communications to live and work. So, how can you make use of the tech you need to navigate the world without succumbing to burnout? Why slowing down helps. Reclaiming our lives.

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college. To help now, please visit Benetech’s Challenge campaign and give whatever you can.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. To do so, we definitely need your help.