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OCTOBER 14, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. India is of course one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is also the largest democracy in the world. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. We know, however, that we’ve only scratched the surface of meeting the global need for access to books and information. Don’t get me wrong: I love writing my updates.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen.

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MARCH 28, 2014

TED gives me the chance to brainstorm with loads of people who gather to discuss ways to change the world through technology and design. I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya.

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JUNE 8, 2010

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders.

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JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. These publisher agreements have also included permissions to distribute books outside the United States: most frequently, we are provided global rights. Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

People with print disabilities around the world have a right to high-quality ebooks that they can read with assistive technology. Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Very similar to the NTEN US Nonprofit Cloud Survey findings, we found that 90 percent of our 10,500 respondents worldwide told us they are already using some type of cloud technology and they plan to use more pretty quickly. to conduct our survey in 21 languages. The survey was fielded in February and March 2012.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September; we've now had several months to consider the findings and talk to some of you about what you think. For the global NGO sector, cloud computing has arrived. It also heralds a game change in nonprofit technology. Is the Cloud Really Here?

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MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He's really helped us move forward with our India projects, thanks to our India project manager, Viji Dilip, who joined me there and who has made all of these great Chennai connections for us.

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JUNE 23, 2010

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. TechSoup Global's NGO cloud survey found plenty of contradictions and confusion about cloud computing. The global NGO average is 36%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Thinking Big About How To Use Technology For Social Change, But Understand the Challenges.

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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! 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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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all. As Bookshare, we believe we can find money to extend the availability of our collection globally to the poor. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Technological Protection Measures. Articles 5 and 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Here’s some good tips when your network is global. How about Facebook friends in India? What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Probably not. Probably not.

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APRIL 19, 2012

And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. InterConnection received the computers from Microsoft, installed Windows 7 Pro and Office 2007 (Czech language version of course), and shipped 157 computers by sea. Refurbished Computers in the TechSoup Global Network.

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JUNE 14, 2009

The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). We just need to make sure that any global treaty that is negotiated doesn’t make things worse for people with disabilities here in the U.S.!

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering.

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JUNE 1, 2010

It was a lightning visit of only two days (Sunday and Monday), with a focus on attending the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Summit 2010 (the GRI). My proposal was on ensuring that all of humanity benefits from the incredible knowledge and technology. I’m on the plane heading back to the U.S. Mada means "horizon" in Arabic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Using Mobile SMS Technology to increase individual smoking cessation success. The program was presented at the Texting for Health Conference this past February, and hopes to provide the tool in multiple languages as well! *. From these examples, we’ve seen how mobile technology can be used to: Raise Awareness.

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MAY 7, 2013

We have the policies and we have the technology to make sure that, as Bookshare''s General Manager Betsy Beaumon says, "All materials that are born digital are born accessible." The World Blind Union''s lead negotiator pointed out how these provisions would, in practice, stop Bookshare from serving blind people in India.

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