Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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Accessibility Global Copyright Law 133

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” MomsRising.org ([link] is a national organization with a social media reach of 3.5 Flickr Photo by alshepmcr.

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Blogger Lesson Childhood Poll 111

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. He went around the world collecting traditional contemporary folk music, assembled those into themes on CDs, and began national distribution. There's a woman in India, Darshan Shah, who started a weavers' co-op.

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Culture Global Interview New Mexico 51

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana. To us, it's really about collaboration.

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Director Ghana Africa North America 40