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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These are exciting times for everyone who’s been working to meet the accessibility imperative, as we are witnessing global movements that will increase accessible publishing and create new and better opportunities for people with disabilities. In my talk, I highlighted three global movements towards increasing accessible publishing.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. My 14-year-old son Jimmy had installed some new software, against my express wishes to not install random software from the Internet (still a good idea!).

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#NPTechChat: The CSR, Tech, and Civil Society Partnership

Tech Soup

As the Internet has exploded and software has become more affordable over the last two decades, greater access to technology, hardware, software, and the web has grown in importance. Technology CSR teams have pioneered programs globally to provide access to technology. What CSR projects have had the biggest impact? UN relations.

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. This was first posted on the GuideStar International blog. “15% of the UK population hasn’t experienced the Internet even once.” should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.”

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). in the developing world where access to the Internet may not be very. landlines to focus on developing the use of mobiles and the mobile Internet. Can you remember when a huge mobile. a device only seen on TV!

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out. Money, it's a drag. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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