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Structural Poverty and the Non-Adoption Tax

Tech Soup

I recently spoke with Alice Loy, co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. She pointed out the sad irony that while Internet literacy is a key ingredient for fighting poverty in New Mexico, building up that literacy is more expensive in poor communities than in wealthy ones: read more.

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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! The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Designing a Desktop Menu That Actually Helps Your Audiences Navigate

Forum One

Designing a desktop menu is one way; it’s one aspect of navigation that informs a website’s overall structure. data literacy, device preferences)? There are different types of primary navigation menus, also known as main and global navigation menus. Your site has a flat structure. Navigation is what people do.”

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Government, Community, and Corporate Partnerships to Expand Broadband Access

Tech Soup

With shrinking budgets, providing increased access to the Internet and training for computer literacy can be particularly challenging for libraries and public computing centers. read more.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Create a folder structure that categorizes your daily fundraising responsibilities. Manage geographically dispersed staff and beneficiaries by creating folder structures with content specific to regional offices.

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Award Winning Combinations for Social Change

Care2

Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world. We want to impact the lives of 100s of thousands of babies in the next couple years," said Liang.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My latest post on HuffPo is now up: Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet , about my proposal to the WEF's Global Redesign Initiative. What would you propose to global leaders to make humanity better off? What about literacy and education? I've included the post below, but comments are best done on the HuffPo site above.

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