Grant Library Literacy Model 
Tech Soup
JULY 25, 2012
"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. of America v. In the U.S.,
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.
Whole Whale
MARCH 22, 2023
Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. But what about everybody else?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 2, 2012
Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. Bookshare was one of the early recipients of a Google Grant of online advertising, which continues to this day.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Many museums, especially those of the big old box variety, need guidance and help figuring out how to build data services into their facilities, and I suspect that these kinds of considerations will become a constant feature of new construction projects once a model is developed.
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