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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.

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Spotlight on South Africa: Nonprofit Profiles from SANGONeT

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Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking provides video and broadcast training to young people. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Art and Media. Children and Education. About SANGONet.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. What are legitimate constraints on free speech under international human rights law? Reconciling privacy concerns with your business model. Does your app use facial recognition?

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. gear up to administer standardized tests digitally next year. Social Media.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change. The first was the ebook.

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