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The Race to Expand Internet Access. in Space

Tech Soup

space exploration company, filed a request to the FCC earlier this year for permission to test satellites for Internet broadcasting. It has already created a mobile app that is providing free Internet access in Ghana and India. There are some big names in this race. Elon Musk's SpaceX , a private U.S.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. Developing countries like Kenya and Ghana, which are starting to make good progress on these efforts, aren’t in the LDC category.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

I have just been consumed by this project, and I always have a file with little notes to myself with ideas for the next project, but I probably won't open that file until the middle of next year, after I have recovered some energy.