Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
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. 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.
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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. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 28, 2006
Gaming is a literacy of transgression. A way to keep alive the ancient tales of India and storytelling in India. Gaming is literacy. Dance Game - step on the correct arrow on the beat. Through play, the rules are transformed. They make up improvisational dancing. What you do inbetween the beats is up to you.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. A lot of Nepali men are working in the Middle East, or they go abroad to India to work, just because there isn't really a job market at all in Nepal. We are pushing an envelope there. I said, "You write it.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 26, 2006
Paolo Coelho (Brazilian author, The Alchemist ) talked about what we aren't willing to talk about: the role of love in what we do. Sheela Patel of SPARC in Mumbai, India, and I talked about IT needs for her communities: the poor. He pointed out three kinds of love: eros, agape and philos.
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