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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a follow up blog post by Pamela Passman, Senior Vice President of Global Affairs, who was our host for the event, she amplifies this point. “Our citizenship work is grounded in the power of our people, our products and our partners to address social and economic opportunity.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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Practically, what this means is that the principle component of our program is a Community Health Action Committee (CHAG), responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating their own public health and social development projects. We feel that true development is about civil society, laws, attitudes, and institutions.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spent one day with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they hosted an event for the Technology Partner Network (I’m one of a couple of hundred of tech advisors in the network). law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). And much more… Washington, D.C. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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