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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. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. For me, it started in late 1999 noticing a new icon on our home PC. I had never heard of it.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. It’s this kind of problem that the global treaty is designed to solve.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

Museum 2.0

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. This is a chronic problem of in-depth co-creative projects.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. The questions and problems are generated exactly from the needs of the participants – what do they need to do?

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. we like to buy mobile phones to have fun, talk to friends, listen to music, tweet and connect on Facebook.” Being a novice in the Third Sector, my interest in this conference was mainly about. face and how we could help solve them. professional pursuits.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

The struggle for the jury was to find how the simple gameplay reflects the game’s goal of empowering women to believe that they are capable of solving hard problems through teamwork and leadership. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse.

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Technology Support as Teaching

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It drives me simply nuts that every single time I call my satellite provider about a problem with the service, and I’m saying “I’m seeing 80% packet loss, and doing a traceroute suggests that it’s about 2 hops after your modem&# and they respond with “OK, first, we’re going to clear out your browser cache.

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