Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

Participants also stopped along the walk to talk about the Davos Codes program and its Climate Action Lab ; the specific impacts these programs have had, such as new plastic recycling laws and bans on fireworks; and taking the program global to San Francisco, Tokyo, and Bangalore.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Just after returning from India and Bangladesh, I received word that one of my key contacts and hosts had suddenly passed away. He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue. Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

It is narrower than the Treaty, and is not binding as a treaty would be (some call it “soft law” compared to the “hard law” of a treaty). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now). and European privacy laws, and so on. • law today. • What would I work on?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Before Inclusive Planet he has co-founded two ventures in the education space - Law School Tutorials, the leading law test prep outfit that became an ISB case study in 2009 and, Rainmaker, the leading talent advisory firm for the legal industry and manager of India's Bar examination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2016 half a billion women still cannot read, 62 million girls are denied the right to education and 155 countries still have laws that differentiate between men and women. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

His “Law of Amplification” was particularly insightful: “technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.” People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. Why does an EU law have such a monumental effect on privacy globally? Second, as the strictest privacy law in the world to date, it has become the gold standard for privacy frameworks. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. The challenge to providing help to this quarter of the world’s people is the growing body of anti-terrorism laws in the world, like the USA Patriot Act and Executive Order 13224 in the United States.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. They use science and clean water laws to improve habitats and communities reliant on a thriving Bay ecosystem. Not because of the unusually big grants, but because most of them are members of our TechSoup family.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

which is their global pro bono service that connects NGOs and social enterprises with the best law firms around the world. Reuters reporter, Astrid Zweynert, was checking out our booth and we got to taking about Thomson Reuters Foundation’s trust.org website that hosts TrustLaw Connect.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Pulling together the facts, figures and stories that tell us where progress is being made and where it is lagging, we believe we will be better able to inspire real change and firm commitments from governments to really change the laws and policies and budget decisions that hold girls and women back. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. It’s what makes our Bookshare service legally possible. national experience.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2020

That same son spent four months training in India when he was fresh out of college. Europe is several years ahead of us (by law via GDPR ) in understanding and reacting to the fact that people do not want to give us their data. Trey wasn’t in the room. I was amazed to learn that my son was with him online, in their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Ed Granger-Happ shows off his office server in a carry on bag that disaster relief workers can use to set up IT support in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Crossposted at the Creative Commons Weblog.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. On the other hand, the dominant countries of India and China are far behind.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Human trafficking organizations advocate for stronger anti-trafficking laws, provide services and support for victims of trafficking crimes, and develop long-term strategies to end human trafficking. Salesforce.org is humbled to partner with nonprofits around the world to bring awareness to World Day Against Human Trafficking.

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APRIL 17, 2012

For example, when Avaaz was lobbying to clean up corruption in India, over 500K people signed it in less than 24 hours. Thanks to public pressure and smart online/offline organizing new anti-corruptions laws are now in the works. 2X likely to volunteer and take part in an event.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It is crucial that policymakers are aware and informed about the gender equality challenges in their country if they are to effectively develop the right laws, policies and budget allocations to tackle these challenges and improve the quality of life for women and girls.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. One of the most powerful industries on the planet, which already has loads of treaties and laws protecting its interests, needs to find balance against some of the most economically and information disadvantaged people on the planet? Conflicts with American Law.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 9, 2016

You can inadvertently break any one of the CAN-SPAM laws. The client’s mission and work are exclusively in India. Your emails are likely to find a home in your recipients’ spam folder. You’ll get the bouncebacks and auto replies from all of the thousands of emails you’ve sent out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Materials submitted by the Joyful Heart Foundation, a charity started by Mariska Hargitay, one of the stars of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” to help victims of sexual assault, were updated by the staff at Pepsi after the submission deadline , which is against the contest rules.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. And I started working with a community outside of St. So you do what you can.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

unlike most other countries) there is no law which requires employers to allow their employees to earn paid sick days. Greenpeace India offered their support. But, too many of us have had to choose between caring for our kids and losing a days pay, and sometimes even our jobs. Its seems crazy, but its true. In the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). Professor Ruth Okediji, who keynoted the Uganda conference a couple of weeks earlier, is visiting Harvard Law School this year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

My mother believed very deeply that being privileged middle class Indians, the community that I grew up in India, required us to have a commitment and a sense of giving back to the communities that we grew up in and around, and to really seeing those communities. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law.

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