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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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! We also received our largest-ever award for human rights, a two-year, $2.2

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

There is a surprising number of nonprofit computer refurbishers in North America that now supply accessible technology equipped computers, and lately iPads and iPods to disabled people at no or low cost. That's where nonprofit computer refurbishers come in. How Accessible Technology Computer Refurbishment Came About.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

The doll takes a child's words and sends them over the Internet to cloud based voice-recognition software that can create the perfect response. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. Children love it. The privacy concerns are huge, though.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. Almost nowhere else in the world can you go and find the range of nationalities, ethnicities, race, language and backgrounds that you have here--not to mention the delicious food. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history.

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