Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies. Although San Francisco is currently in a housing crisis/real estate boom , it also has some of the strongest tenant laws in the country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. Ensuring kids with disabilities get equal opportunity is, fortunately, a bipartisan issue. The Marrakesh Treaty.

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