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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. extended to help all people with print disabilities in the world who need it.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. Dr. Karen Erickson, one of the nation's leading experts in literacy for people with disabilities, invented the original concept for Route 66 and collaborated closely with us on the instructional approach and content. This is a huge legal victory!

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Is Spanish more your bag?

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Visit to Qatar

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

after my first visit to the country of Qatar. The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. My proposal was on ensuring that all of humanity benefits from the incredible knowledge and technology. I’m on the plane heading back to the U.S. Mada means "horizon" in Arabic.

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Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World

Forum One

Currently, we are working on building clientele in Doha, Qatar as we continue to work with longtime partners the Supreme Education Council and the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology. In this vein, Forum One has already has already established a number of new business relationships.