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Literacy for a billion: PlanetRead

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the most exciting literacy social enterprises that I've run into is PlanetRead. Planet Read added subtitles to Bollywood music videos. They have also done extensive measurements of their impact and see real progress on advancing literacy. Another example of scale, South Asian style!

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Durff's Slide Show: Why Integrate Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Search on flickr using creative commons licensing. The transitions and music is the same - a count to four beats of the music and the same transition. The rhytm of music is making me want more jump cuts and faster pace. Change the music or change the transitions so they better match.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I believe in the power of books to change the world. I had never heard of it.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

and if you liked the opening music it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's Mango Delight. You can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourcecounsultinggroup.com. garden urban education school food health This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Thanks for listening.