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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. International NGO Leadership. Law and Advocacy. Nicole Ozer , director of technology and civil liberties policy at ACLU. Last year, U.S. Shortfalls.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

Tech Soup

In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. law enforcement agencies have been expanding their use of surveillance drones. Rescue workers on the ground then knew exactly where to go. In the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. This is on a personal computing level.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $675. Finance / @southwestfdns. Mar 11 - 13.

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