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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language before the end of 2021? Charity: Water’s annual report is the perfect example of keeping it simple, but effective. National Public Radio (NPR).

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15 Inspiring Nonprofit Annual Reports | With Bonus Template

Whole Whale

Their use of joyful photos of individuals or small groups helps personalize the program descriptions, as does highlighting an employee’s efforts, like those of Margaret Mary Debre, PoP’s Lead WASH Coordinator in Ghana. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language? Click here to learn more about our Inclusivity Tool!

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Developing countries like Kenya and Ghana, which are starting to make good progress on these efforts, aren’t in the LDC category. One particularly tall order from WIPO was the desire to have a successful pilot effort in several of the world’s Least Developed Countries, which are the toughest places to work.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Freedom Fone was introduced at two radio stations: Radio Maria in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Volta Star radio in the Volta region of Ghana. Making radio more accessible in Ghana. When listeners called, they were able to choose their language.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017. Irene also shed light on this issue as she described how the IDP Foundation specifically contributes to targets within SDG #4 (Education).

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. In Ghana people are interested in knowing about new tools, because they need to stay in touch with what???s An offline newsletter or meeting is very important in Ghana for instance for reaching people as they don???t

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