Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 21, 2010
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 Tags: print disabled print disabilities SCCR.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2009
Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay joined together to propose that WIPO consider this treaty. Tags: print disabled blind SCCR18 copyright copyfight SCCR Bookshare WIPO. Bookshare pretty much has been made possible by the Chafee Amendment, a copyright exception provision in U.S.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 24, 2010
This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.
NTEN
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
You can learn more about Fundapi -- it helps if you can read Spanish -- and the work they're doing in Ecuador here. Tags: member appreciation NTEN. We're proud to have them as members for another year! Don't forget to renew your own NTEN membership for 2010.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 12, 2010
In places we assist, like Ecuador, less than 50 dollars keeps a person needing insulin alive for an entire year as it covers the transport cost for us to send the donated insulin.”. Tags: Fundraising storytelling. These donations go a long, long way. What has the response to the campaign been so far?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). Tags: accessibility Kareem Dale SCCR18 PTO copyright Pallante copyfight SCCR Chafee Bookshare.
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
I wanted to go out and experience the world, so I went at nineteen years old to the Amazon in Ecuador and ended up working with indigenous women who were struggling because there had been a oil contamination (four times Exxon Valdez) on their traditional lands. Tags: Big Vision Podcast interview.
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