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Reimagining the Power of One Billion Dollars

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Self-assessment for the poor : Empower the poor to improve their lives with a simple assessment tool, the Poverty Stoplight, invented in Paraguay that helps them assess their poverty with 50 simple questions with three pictures showing the possible answers. If we can do that, it could be the best and most powerful billion dollars ever spent!

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

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My main point is that the two high grounds are not the name in impact. We did some exploration of the likely impacts on the market for audio books: that seems to be one of the major policy concerns about the text-to-speech issue. Authors are fighting over how much money they get: it’s clear that they are being paid.

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