Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 7, 2013
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2010
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
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! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 13, 2016
His “Law of Amplification” was particularly insightful: “technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.” People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004. Professor Ruth Okediji, who keynoted the Uganda conference a couple of weeks earlier, is visiting Harvard Law School this year.
Have Fun - Do Good
APRIL 2, 2008
My favorite scene from the movie is these women, all ages, all sizes, going to surround the peace talks in Ghana, which were essentially going nowhere. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law. It is not that we aren't seeing the wins.
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