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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. We have built Bookshare International upon three principles. The third pillar of Bookshare International is developing new language capabilities.

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Nigeria lifts Twitter ban, says the company has agreed to government demands

The Verge

The Nigerian government says Twitter has agreed to meet all of its demands, according to a report from CNN. These include Twitter opening a local office in Nigeria, addressing concerns over its tax payments, and “managing prohibited publication in line with Nigerian law.”. Nigeria has accused Twitter of helping spread “fake news”.

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How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement

The Verge

A labyrinth of Facebook groups and right-wing media After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. And while the convoy itself may soon be broken up by the Canadian government, those online pathways are much stickier. Photo by Steve Russell / Toronto Star via Getty Images.

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Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta, gets backing from 500 Startups

TechCrunch

They spent money managing corporate structures for holding companies in Delaware, Canada, and Europe but maintained paper-based subsidiaries across Africa. According to Coleby, most of the equity across Africa is still stored, tracked and updated using paper certificates, manual processes and fragmented government databases.

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Inadequate federal privacy regulations leave US startups lagging behind Europe

TechCrunch

A new law to follow” seems unlikely to have featured on many business wishlists this holiday season, particularly if that law concerned data privacy. But for 2021, I believe startups in the United States should be demanding that legislators deliver a federal privacy law. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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#AI4Good: Artificial Intelligence & Wellbeing, Ethical Dilemmas, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It envisions this as an ethical guiding compass and a global normative bedrock allowing to build a strong respect for the rule of law in the digital world. To understand the ethical dilemmas, see these scenarios. Here’s just one example of the ethical issues we need to anticipate as we embrace AI.

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Heirlume raises $1.38M to remove the barriers of trademark registration for small businesses

TechCrunch

and Canada, even when official government trademark search tools, and even top-tier legal firms, might not. And there was nothing I could do to help because the law just simply wasn’t on their side, because they had neglected to register their trademarks to own them.” million CAD (~$1.38