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Volunteer with Shunku Llacta and Visit the Rainforests of Ecuador

Have Fun - Do Good

In June 2005, my friend Abby Jaramillo, the Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , brought six international volunteers to two rural communities in the rainforests of Ecuador, Guayabillas and Santa Rosa, with the organization Shunku Llacta. Ecuador volunteer rainforest artisan Photo: A volunteer helps to harvest fruit.

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5 Questions for Michelle Samplin-Salgado

NTEN

You were born in New York, grew up in Phoenix, and have lived in Hawaii, Ecuador, Boston. What brought you to Miami? The common thread here, aside from a 14-year stint in Boston, is warm weather. That would be the easy and probably obvious response.

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at WIPO

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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Spotlighting the Benefits of the Stakeholder Economy at Davos 2022

Saleforce Nonprofit

Participants also stopped along the walk to talk about the Davos Codes program and its Climate Action Lab ; the specific impacts these programs have had, such as new plastic recycling laws and bans on fireworks; and taking the program global to San Francisco, Tokyo, and Bangalore.

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30 Days of NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Taipei, Taiwan: ????????????. Toronto, Canada: Tech Planning for 2014: Trends and Best Practices. Houston, TX: Make Every Cent Count with Your Crowdfunding Project with PledgeCents Tips!

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Copyright treaty in Geneva Advances!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty. Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S. law that made it legal for us to scan just a bout any book without needing to get permissions first.

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NetSquared Celebrates Progress and Looks Forward to 2015

Tech Soup

Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Asia and Pacific Rim. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Taipei, Taiwan ??????????????????. Central and South America. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Wednesday, December 10, 2014.