Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 26, 2006

The Voices of Davos This meeting is all about conversations. I just want to share some of the voices I've heard so far this week. Isaac from Nigeria makes mobile toilets and gives them to poor widows to use to generate income: "shit business is serious business." These are based on my contemporaneous notes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence."

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