Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We’re already delivering services at scale in three other countries—Canada, the UK, and India. We have the technology. The majority of donations stay local, sourcing content in local languages and creating jobs. We have hundreds of thousands of ebooks in a dozen languages already available globally. This one does.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

2018 is a crucial year for smart speaker technology and innovation. Think about some of the pieces of technology or up-and-coming topics that, maybe five years ago, we thought had nothing to do with us. Today, 10 languages make up 82% of web content. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The staff I work with at Benetech are committed to the communities that we serve with our technology. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. Since Viji was raised in India, she began looking at the educational challenges faced by people from that country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

People with print disabilities around the world have a right to high-quality ebooks that they can read with assistive technology. Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good. Spanish publishing is one of the hottest digital battlegrounds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Nonprofit Tech for Good recently created a Tech for Good Community that encourages members to share content about how technology is being used for good in the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

TED gives me the chance to brainstorm with loads of people who gather to discuss ways to change the world through technology and design. I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

back then) and being the one of the visionaries behind the Netsquared project. So, when Marnie starts talking about the next big disruptive technology for the nonprofit sector, I listen. We’ve published those results and our partner network has translated the executive summary into a wide variety of languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He's really helped us move forward with our India projects, thanks to our India project manager, Viji Dilip, who joined me there and who has made all of these great Chennai connections for us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. Technology for social change is needed more and more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2009

LifeLines India allows them to call in and —using a voice activated system in their local language — get advice about their needs. This innovative use of unified communications technology is sure to offer ideas for other programs to help bridge the digital divide. read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

To help organizations learn more about accessibility, TechSoup’s recent installment of Nonprofits Live explored accessibility and assistive technology joined by guest experts Sachin Malhan, of Inclusive Planet; Sharron Rush, of Knowbility, and Neil MacGregor of goQ. Assistive Technologies. Accessibility in Developing Countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. Bookshare now has hundreds of titles in Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish, and we recently announced a partnership with the government of Qatar to develop an Arabic language service. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Technological Protection Measures. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. Conclusion In plain language, this is a Treaty that should start to remedy the book famine. Articles 5 and 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2008

The Times of India covered the story during my visit, Disabled in city help blind in US. Plus, as we get more permissions from India publishers, we'll be able to source English language books locally. And, hopefully in the future we'll be able to do books in Indian languages like Hindi and Tamil (and many others, of course).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Open at first only to users in the US and India, Facebook Lite is now available to all English-language users. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook. Overnight, last night, Facebook rolled out its long-awaited Facebook Lite — a new, faster, stripped-down version of the social networking site. read more ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

I had an introduction to the one of key leaders in India's outsourcing revolution, Mr. F.C. We had a great conversation high above south Mumbai in the Air India building, which overlooks Mumbai's peninsula. I was meeting with the Exegenix team, part of TCS that is working on XML document conversion technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Trends in technology change quickly. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

Founded by Indian Institute of Management professor Brij Kothari, the first concept was same language subtitling. When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. They first created original visual story content, and then added different languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Thinking Big About How To Use Technology For Social Change, But Understand the Challenges. How can new media and technology create solutions in YOUR community? There were many examples of how social, mobile, and other new digital technologies are being used to scale good bridge digital divides.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. For the employees English is not their first language and for some it was not the medium of instruction. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Very similar to the NTEN US Nonprofit Cloud Survey findings, we found that 90 percent of our 10,500 respondents worldwide told us they are already using some type of cloud technology and they plan to use more pretty quickly. to conduct our survey in 21 languages. The survey was fielded in February and March 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

CompuMentor has created a Technology Innovation Fund to provide direct cash support to projects selected by the NetSquared Community. Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam. Community Technology Centres for Children And Young Adults in Low and Moderate Income Communities in Madurai India. Creative Commons suggests.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

While usage varies by region, the range is relatively narrow, with a high of 93 percent in Australia/New Zealand and USA/Canada and a low of 83 percent in India. It also heralds a game change in nonprofit technology. " We expect to see more and more technology vendors offering cloud-based versions of their products.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We need solutions that address security concerns in language organizations can recognize. We suspect our respondents in those countries may be something of an NGO technology elite. To quote TechSoup Global's Dan Web: We need solutions that include an ability to ask a question of an expert or another NGO user. no Internet! -

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. InterConnection received the computers from Microsoft, installed Windows 7 Pro and Office 2007 (Czech language version of course), and shipped 157 computers by sea. to scale up RCI in California. Fast Forward to 2012.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

This seems unreasonably modest, when Bookshare alone already has much more favorable voluntary agreements covering 20,000 English language titles and 1,000 Spanish language titles with many of the major U.S. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# If you have had a change to play with Jumo and have some insights, please share in the comments. What is Jumo?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Technology is a dehumanizing. 1) Everybody is People. Modeling the norm.

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