Benefit eBook Literacy 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 28, 2014
Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers.
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
DECEMBER 3, 2011
The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. In the U.S.,
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.,
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. You can take an ebook, push a button and make it Braille. This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go. What’s next?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world? For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Martus Desktop 4.5
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