Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Of the 3 million NGOs that operate in India, most are small and dependent on volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Scheduling tweets is a must for nonprofits that want to engage an international following. Format your tweets for easy reading. Retweet your own tweets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. While the majority of our members are U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Plus, it will especially help countries with less-developed libraries and services for people with disabilities by making it easier to tap large collections (like Bookshare) in other countries. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They were holding an international meeting of blindness groups around the campaign to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty in London during the days before the Geneva meeting. My experience with the international publishers was such that I expected there would be a way to work through this issue. I decided to follow through and attend.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. Bookshare now has hundreds of titles in Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish, and we recently announced a partnership with the government of Qatar to develop an Arabic language service. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

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. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

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. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Networks in an International Context. His slides and my notes and reflections follow.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. We developed; for example, a juried show.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, spawning nearly a dozen investigations by international and US regulators over Facebook’s data practices. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees. Make it easy to read and understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Teaching in an international context.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. It is a really exciting and empowering position, especially for women in developing countries. I have a story that you have to hear.'" The goals of the organization are three-fold.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. ford Thanks, Steve.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

And recently, for the last five years or so, I’ve really moved more into helping people communicate more effectively internally and interpersonally, because that’s where I saw the most need. It was developed by somebody named Dr. Donald Epstein, who was a chiropractor by training but really worked with people to heal their lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

Christina Arnold: My name is Christina Arnold, and I'm the founder of Prevent Human Trafficking, formerly Project Hope International. One of the ideas that they came up with, which they started years ago with the Population Community Development Association of Thailand, was to have village banks. BB: What brought you to this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. I co-developed and co-taught a series of summer executive institutes at Stanford about women and leadership.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format.

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