Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Australia and New Zealand – 7%. Education and literacy – 5%. From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019. By Region: Africa – 12%. Asia – 26%. Canada and the United States – 26%. Europe – 6%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada. 9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples — #IndigenousDay.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2012

New Zealand 6.6% Education and Literacy 23.3% Below are 10 things I learned about you: 1. Where you live: U.S. Northeas t 23.3% West 23.3% Southwest 13.3% Southeast 10% U.S. Midwest 10% Europe 10% Australia 6.6% Canada 3.3% How old you are: 35-44 30% 45-54 26.7% 26-3 4 23.3% 5 5-64 16.7% 2 years 16.7% 6 months 13.3% Animals 23.3%

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century. For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

in Auckland, New Zealand, TechSoup hosted a #Storymakers2014 global discussion via Twitter. Important issues emerged in the conversation: data access, data literacy, design of platform, dissemination strategy, and impact measurement. On September 4, 2014, beginning at 3 p.m.

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