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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam.

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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

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As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Very good question.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

MathAndCoding created a curriculum for the library based on the programming language Scratch , a language developed especially for kids by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Lab. The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. " Library-Specific Curriculum.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. We can tap into local knowledge because our reports are coming from the source.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy. There are local government based nonprofit programs like Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities in Ohio, and ARC Broward.