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Visit to Qatar

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

after my first visit to the country of Qatar. The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. Mada: Qatar Assistive Technology Center Since the conference didn’t get formally going until noon on Sunday, I had the chance to squeeze in a morning visit to Qatar’s ICT Ministry.

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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Mobile Solution: Responsive Design on ictQATAR

Forum One

ictQATAR is the website for the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology for the Government of Qatar, which is in charge of technology innovation and implementation throughout the country. read more.

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Benetech: President's Update

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All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We believe that having more minds working simultaneously on a problem increases the odds of solving that problem well and quickly.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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Our team also made a dramatic investment in teacher training efforts, by not only providing several webinars each month, but also delivering our hands-on professional development workshops nationwide. The news that this is the largest accessible Arabic book collection in the world is bittersweet. Is Spanish more your bag?

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ictQATAR Web Redesign Demonstrates Technology Leadership in the Gulf

Forum One

Several months of strategic planning, audience research, usability and accessibility testing, and of course, web development, culminated in the flagship website for the information technology sector in Qatar. The site debuted in early April after a global effort between ictQATAR communications staff and the Forum One team.

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Mobile Solution: Responsive Design on ictQATAR

Forum One

ictQATAR is the website for the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology for the Government of Qatar, which is in charge of technology innovation and implementation throughout the country. read more.

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