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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. 1,171,000,000.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. My experience with the international publishers was such that I expected there would be a way to work through this issue.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech is tackling these issues on two fronts, thanks to the leadership of Enrique Piracés, who joined us last year from Human Rights Watch. Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Treaty of Marrakesh, Top Issues: What’s the goal of the Treaty? So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It covers music in the form of sheet music, but not audio or videos of performances. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month.

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