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. Definitely a good thing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In a recent blog post , Ed explains why growth markets are key to this proposed merger of two of the publishing world’s biggest players. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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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. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). The African Union Proposed Treaty (“AUPT”).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Gaming is testing ideas, proposing solutions, and moving through the system. A way to keep alive the ancient tales of India and storytelling in India. What you do inbetween the beats is up to you. Important to test.

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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.” Flickr Photo by alshepmcr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Partha Sarker is a Researcher with Telecentre.org (Canada) and Co-founder of Bytes for All (India). Proposed deadlines. Acceptance of paper proposal 15 March 2007. Preconditions, entry points and strategies for using web based technologies for collaboration and KS. Submission deadline for the title and abstract 28 February 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. No, I'm not blogging on the plane!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

This meeting was a follow-up for me from my attendance earlier this year at the main WEF meeting in Davos , where I presented my proposal as part of the GRI. My proposal was on ensuring that all of humanity benefits from the incredible knowledge and technology. We need to encourage limitations and exceptions (like the one in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The logic that we really proposed is that, well, what really matters, the one common input, is the time of the artisan who made it; and if the artisan took two hours to make it and you paid that person a dollar, that could be a very good price. It still serves about 3, 000 people a year and it is an amazing organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

One of their researchers, someone from India, came into Nancy’s office and said, “The algorithm is broken is just combined having sex with giving up the goods.” Nancy told the researcher that the algorithm understand American slang better than you do!”. This is what she meant by: Data scientists are not overhead!!! What’s good?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

AMEX encouraged, trained, supported project proposers in using social media/networking tools Online tools to submit proposals, support facilitated more interaction and engagement within community; encouraged dialogue in other places - eg The Members Project on Facebook. AMEX gave away $2.5m

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions. I think I was very fortunate to be inspired by my "she-ro", who is my mother, and by her mother, my grandmother, who is an extraordinarily independent, feisty 93-year old.

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