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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities. Phab is on a mission: she believes strongly that she is building her country by helping her students acquire the skills they will use to help advance Laos in the future.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. students at Stanford University. General Data Protection Regulation.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. copyright law). copyright law). copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment. In Authors Guild v.

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

The earliest Women's Day observance was held in 1909 in New York, when the Socialist Party of America commemorated a strike of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. women became the majority of law students. According to the nonprofit American Association of University Women , the U.S. Last year, U.S.

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Free Legal Services for Charities Anyone?

Tech Soup

Many law firms do much more pro bono work than 50 hours. TechSoup has had an ongoing relationship with the famous Silicon Valley law firm, Cooley LLP for several years. TechSoup’s Pro Bono Law Firm, Cooley LLP. employment, intellectual property, business law etc). OK, I do know that lawyers in the U.S In the U.S.,

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A Volunteer and a Violent Stranger - A Question of Liability

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Kathy Renfro Graduate Student ASU Master of Nonprofit Management and Leadership program Nonprofit assignments can place volunteers in precarious positions of potential, personal liability. In this example, a volunteer is assigned to provide tutoring to grade school students on campus. www.npccny.org/info/gti2. Oshinsky, J.,

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A Volunteer and a Violent Stranger - A Question of Liability

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Kathy Renfro Graduate Student ASU Master of Nonprofit Management and Leadership program. To prevent volunteers from abandoning volunteerism because of liability concerns, the Volunteer Protection Act (VPA) was signed into law by President Clinton in 1997. NY Nonprofits/Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, June 1998.