Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. These texts will be available in early 2012.?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. Places like ACA are pretty important.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. The ability of that Indian blind student shouldn’t depend on whether she can get her university or a local blindness charity to do it for her. That’s so 20th Century (or 19th?)!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Here are just a few anti-trafficking nonprofit organizations that are leveraging Salesforce technology to fight human trafficking and support survivors of these crimes. Unlike many nonprofits, it sells services and software products the nonprofit has built through the Dev Shop it runs for students and graduates of its programs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. Places like ACA are pretty important.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thanks to the support of the EB team, we now have direct access to digital versions of many important reference series, along with the ability to provide these books to people with qualifying print disabilities in Canada, the UK, India and all over the world! We have already gotten close on trade books: juvenile and teen literature.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Part of being “GlobalGiving” is making sure we’re helping members of our community literally give globally! The Big Question. GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. Why It Matters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. based non-profit that addresses unmet social needs through innovative technology solutions. I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S. Richer countries like the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

That shortchanges Larry’s background: he was the key leader in the campaign to eliminate smallpox in India, cofounded the Seva Foundation and a couple of high tech companies, and was most recently running Google.org. What a great kick-off for a day!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Yesterday, I had the honor of participating in the 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit that brings together women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.”

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec Supports Women in Technology. Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices. Employee Engagement and Giving.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z. They are not content to just sit and click.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. Computers For Youth will supply educational resources for low-income students. Refurbished Computers in the TechSoup Global Network. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Enabling 1,000 nonprofits through donations of technology, thereby helping organizations to run more efficiently and maximize their potential. For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Objective : Using Mobile SMS Technology to increase individual smoking cessation success. Cool Factor : Txt2Quit. 26 Week Program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

Here's the text of my article: My good friend from India, Joe Madiath, bumps into another man at a Davos party thrown by the Egyptians. The idea that a social entrepreneur serving the poorest of the poor in India might bump into a world famous politician is not a surprise here at the World Economic Forum. They say hi and shake hands.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 6th annual global health conference sponsored by a dynamic young group called Unite for Site at Yale University. He also encouraged the audience--comprised largely of Yale students--to travel to places that make you uncomfortable as a way to experience the world. PLoS Medicine ?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. In technology for good and social media, it’s Sina Weibo or ????.

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