Tableau

JUNE 16, 2021

Enterprises are increasingly becoming data-driven—and requiring data literacy skills for employees in every part of the organization. We commissioned research by Forrester Consulting to help better understand the data literacy gap. The study shows that the data literacy gap is growing. Bridging the data literacy gap.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

And yet data access and the skills required to understand the data are, in many organizations, restricted to business intelligence teams and IT specialists. Organizations can also instill a data culture by promoting data literacy—because in order for employees to participate in a data culture, they first need to speak the language of data.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I’m proud to announce that our ready-made Data Literacy One curriculum is now available in Canvas learning management system (LMS) format. This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. . September 2, 2021 - 1:50pm.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I’m proud to announce that our ready-made Data Literacy One curriculum is now available in Canvas learning management system (LMS) format. This latest Tableau Academic program release enables instructors to quickly get up and running to teach data literacy skills to the next generation of decision makers. September 2, 2021 - 1:50pm.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

For business leaders, this meant an organizational shift toward more data-driven jobs and a heightened focus on data skills—a transition that revealed the widespread lack of data skills and data literacy. Once meant for data scientists and analysts, data literacy is now a requirement for all—from business leaders to front-line workers.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

For business leaders, this meant an organizational shift toward more data-driven jobs and a heightened focus on data skills—a transition that revealed the widespread lack of data skills and data literacy. Once meant for data scientists and analysts, data literacy is now a requirement for all—from business leaders to front-line workers.

Literacy 98

Literacy Analytics Data Skills 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

Literacy 98

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Urban areas concentrate services in walkable areas with public transit access, while rural homelessness spreads across vast distances with minimal infrastructure. Housing-insecure individuals in rural areas travel up to three times farther than their urban counterparts to access basic services like healthcare and job training.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. The majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. million contract to do just that. Fast-forward six years.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Is your data available in a format that is easy to access and act on? A few questions you might consider asking include: When we onboard a new team member, do we train them on how to find or access our data and where to go/who to speak with about data? Data Does your organization have the data you’re looking for?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. SEChallenge a11y accessibility Bookshare crowdfunding CrowdRise Huffington Post print disabilities Reading Skoll Foundation veterans'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2014

And, she wants to improve access to education, economic opportunity and of course, books, for all Moroccans, but most especially women! book caravan books librarians literacy Marrakech Marrakesh Morocco women women''s rights' We had a great conversation, and I learned much more about her dreams for doing more for the people of Morocco.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

By focusing on financial literacy and individualized coaching, we are giving everyone the opportunity to own their home, increasing financial inclusion and equality in America. In addition to the funding announcement, Landis said it opened up access to its Landis Homeownership Coach mobile app for free to everyone with an iPhone.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Earned wage access (EWA) platforms that allow workers to withdraw their earnings on demand instead of waiting until payday are proliferating around the world. On average, more than 50% of employees at wagely’s enterprise clients use it multiple times throughout the month to track their daily earnings and access their earned wages.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Concerns about authenticity, disparities in access, and biases in AI tools raise urgent questions: Will this technology help bridge societal gaps, or will it deepen them? Access to something critical was reserved for those who could afford it. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Our members are now downloading accessible books at a rate of more than one million books per year! and James L. with the books they need for educational success.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

The best part is that you already have access to a major part of the solution – your data! For others, it’s all about networking and having access to industry experts. Let’s take a look at a few ways you can shift challenges into opportunities, keep your association top of mind, and maintain your revenue stream in 2023.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

At Tableau, we believe that data has a purpose to fuel knowledge for everyone and that anyone in any role should be able to access, understand and communicate with data. . We also realize that data needs to be readily accessible to everyone, but we don’t all consume data in the same way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Our work to date repeatedly demonstrates bridging this market failure gap: Our Literacy team has reinvented the traditional library for the blind, reducing the cost of producing an accessible book by a factor of 100 and ending the book famine that people who are blind or print disabled have faced for years.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

And yet data access and the skills required to understand the data are, in many organizations, restricted to business intelligence teams and IT specialists. Organizations can also instill a data culture by promoting data literacy—because in order for employees to participate in a data culture, they first need to speak the language of data.

Literacy 52

Literacy Data Skills Training 52

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Promova , whose mission is to make language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent, is the first language learning app to build a dedicated setting for those with dyslexiaa specialized typeface and adjustments to font size and brightness help mitigate some of the most common reading challenges that people with dyslexia experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Users get one lesson per day for free, but if they want access to more lessons and the full library of songs (or if they want to learn multiple instruments), they need to sign up for a Premium or Premium+ subscription, with pricing starting at $19.99 “We want to make musicality to be as common as literacy,” Thür said.

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Music Education Accessibility Raise 99

Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. That’s why I was thrilled to join the Tableau Academic team, which understands the importance of bringing these data literacy skills to students. We define data literacy as “the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data.” Sue Kraemer. Kristin Adderson.

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Tableau

JUNE 16, 2021

Enterprises are increasingly becoming data-driven—and requiring data literacy skills for employees in every part of the organization. We commissioned research by Forrester Consulting to help better understand the data literacy gap. The study shows that the data literacy gap is growing. Bridging the data literacy gap.

Literacy 52

Literacy Data eLearning Classroom 52

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Earnipay , a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. A few individual businesses have sought to tackle this problem internally and allow employees to access their daily salaries as they work for it. 250 ($0.5)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

At Tableau, we believe that data has a purpose to fuel knowledge for everyone and that anyone in any role should be able to access, understand and communicate with data. . We also realize that data needs to be readily accessible to everyone, but we don’t all consume data in the same way.

Gartner 98

Gartner Accessibility Data Analytics 98

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It always feels good to get paid, so it’s no surprise that a payroll model like earned wage access (EWA), which lets employees withdraw their accrued wages at any time, has exploded in popularity. Earned wage access is still a fairly new service, and we see multiple models, with some charging employers and others charging employees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

My organization, Benetech, alone has products and services touching on all of these areas: • We write the leading software package used for managing conservation projects: Miradi, a standalone software program usable on PCs and Macs, and our Read2Go software is the leading Special Education Literacy software for the iOS platform (for iPhones and iPads) (..)

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Tableau

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Although most people are familiar with the current trend of growing amounts of data, there is a skills gap in data literacy - defined as the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data. Through our Academic education efforts, we have provided more than 2 million students and instructors with access to software and data skills.

Literacy 52

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

Focus Area: Include a list of options, such as youth literacy, nutrition, and workforce readiness. If the funding program is for a specific focus area, such as food insecurity, you can ask, Does your program support improving access to healthy food? Ask if your applicant serves one or more of those impact areas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

It also helped us reframe what it means to have access to the tools that allow us to fully engage with the world around us. Some major victories were also won on both the local and federal levels in getting government recognition and support around digital access.

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