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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There’s a global book famine afflicting people with disabilities. I have good news: For $5 million a year, we can build a global library that provides tens of millions of people around the world who are blind, low vision, or dyslexic free access to books that will work for them. This one does. We have the technology.

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7 Ways a Virtual Event Platform Can Improve Attendee Experience

AccelEvents

As planners all over the world move their events online or to a hybrid format, the use of virtual event platforms continues to grow. These platforms can help event planners and organizers market and host a virtual event, like a conference or a trade show, that delivers the same quality and value as a live event.

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7 Ways a Virtual Event Platform Can Improve Attendee Experience

AccelEvents

As planners all over the world move their events online or to a hybrid format, the use of virtual event platforms continues to grow. These platforms can help event planners and organizers market and host a virtual event, like a conference or a trade show, that delivers the same quality and value as a live event.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My recommendation to the advocacy community is to continue to pursue a “yes-and” approach, as we have so far with the TVI and the Stakeholders’ Platform. Joint Recommendation and the TVI, but drop the Stakeholders’ Platform. The WIPO Stakeholder’s Platform (WIPO-SP). However, my suggestion is to pursue the U.S.

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48 Top Nonprofit Podcasts in 2023

Whole Whale

This leads to a rather large podcast graveyard in the iTunes library making it very hard to find current podcasts. Provide a platform to showcase awesome nonprofits. While it is easy to create a podcast, the difficulty comes with the ongoing work needed to maintain a podcast month after month.

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EPA Webinar: The Biggest Green IT Opportunities for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Right then I wanted to try and find a way for nonprofits and libraries to have the same experience. In order to do that, TechSoup Global and the U.S. EPA Energy Star Program are teaming up to bring you a free webinar called " The Biggest Green IT Opportunities for Nonprofits and Libraries " on Tuesday, June 28, at 1 p.m.

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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! WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced.