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TAACCCT Grantee Focus Group / Reception

VisionLink

On behalf of TAConnecT, VisionLink''s Lois Ann Porter conducted a focus group at the AACC (American Association of Community Colleges) Convention: Igniting Innovation , and hosted a well attended networking reception. For more information about TAConnect, follow the link , or go to taconnect.org.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That is why we have exceptions: to lower transaction costs and secure the civil rights of people with disabilities to have equal opportunity • That is why we need a binding instrument that makes copyright exceptions a global norm, and allows for import and export of these materials. •

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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. extended to help all people with print disabilities in the world who need it.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

Candid

Other marginalized groups fare even worse, accounting for less than 1% of Ukraine grant dollars. National Christian Foundation. Just two grants worth $600,000 specifically target gender-based violence support. More than $1 million in grants went to the support and entertainment of U.S. Switzerland. 99,062,550. 81,627,487.

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Cardiomatics bags $3.2M for its ECG-reading AI

TechCrunch

The seed raise also includes a $1 million non-equity grant from the Polish National Centre of Research and Development. “Most often it is performed on a narrow set of data from a specific group of patients, registered with only one device. We receive signals from various groups of patients, coming from different recorders.

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Directing ML toward natural hazard mitigation through collaboration

Google Research AI blog

The event included talks from six invited speakers, a series of small-group discussion sessions focused on hydrological modeling, inundation mapping, and hazard alerting–related topics, as well as a presentation by Google on the FloodHub , which provides free, public access to Google’s flood forecasts, up to 7 days in advance.

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Greenpeace Nordic Fights to Win the World a Better Future

Saleforce Nonprofit

The Greenpeace story started in 1971 with a group of peace activists protesting U.S. In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. nuclear tests off the coast of Alaska.

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