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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. BB: Can you talk a little bit about the relationship between the Global Fund for Women and this book? By 2005, I had my eye on a little handful of organizations that I knew were grantees of the Global Fund for Women.