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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Statement of Benetech to the 22nd Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property Organization June 15, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland • Greetings from California’s Silicon Valley!

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. I decided to follow through and attend.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Start Your September with New Tech Skills

Tech Soup

Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. Lausanne, Switzerland: Meetup avec Pascal Kotté et CloudReady.ch. Lausanne, Switzerland: Entraide Numérique Intergen.Digital de 7 à 107 ans. Lausanne, Switzerland. Prefer to go at your own pace?

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. As a library, we’re also dedicated to providing the abovementioned safety net – today and in the future.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. Genève, Switzerland: TEDx Geneva: Comment Faire pour Évoluer? Renens, Switzerland: "OpenLab"­ au FABLAB Chêne 20 de Renens.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My career as a gopher mistress was very short-lived because a guy in Switzerland and something called mosaic came along. Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. It was before the commercial web.