India Literacy National Work 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. As always, I’m delighted to share the latest Benetech highlights as we work on these ambitious 10X dreams! Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
I’m excited to share highlights from our work and its significance for the multitudes we serve. It was exciting to be an active player in global diplomacy: Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries hope to have, both in terms of accessing our 200,000+ books and having their own national version of Bookshare.
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Kindful
AUGUST 9, 2021
Grant research tip : As you look over the list and peruse potential funders, take notes of those who best align with your work. They work with colleges, universities, and other organizations that embrace equity in higher learning, with a focus on historically underserved populations, including nontraditional and incarcerated students. .
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 3, 2010
Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. 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.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 2, 2007
For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.
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. ” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners.
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