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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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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. Consider the issues with printed books. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been. First, they are place-based.

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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. UN relations. unfoundation. Image: +SocialGood. spanhidden

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

According to the Women and the Web report, 200 million more men have access to the Internet than women. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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

Tech Soup

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. Though the list above includes mobile Internet-related services, some of the. It must be noted that according to the ITU , Internet user penetration has reached approximately 9.6%

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. How can you have a revolution if no one shows up?

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