Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 9, 2014
Governments in developing countries are thinking seriously about how to provide quality secondary education, noted Gallucci and Roy, yet less known are which interventions are economical and will increase demand, access, and retention. This is where philanthropy comes in.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater. The base draft accomplishes that, and mirrors the effective exception in the U.S.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 27, 2010
Four of the social entrepreneurs then made brief presentations about their GRI proposals that had been chosen by the WEF to present to the conference. His proposal was that time-limited “smart subsidies” be used to encourage the adoption of these innovations until the adoption curve gets to the point where the commercial market takes over.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2010
A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 9, 2013
Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 14, 2009
We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. 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).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 26, 2007
I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. No, I'm not blogging on the plane!
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