Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. The recent Indian copyright amendment that creates an exception similar to Section 121 in the United States, which makes it possible for us to set up a Bookshare-style crowd-sourced library in India with local partner NGOs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. Our Benetech Labs is busy looking for the next tech social enterprises that could make similar global impact. We must help ensure that every report of abuse is a tool for justice.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2009

From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Brenda loves the Pulaski County Public Library's Literacy Bell, a simple way to celebrate children's literacy. Stephanie announces a free webinar next week, Technology Grants for Libraries 101. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Facebook’s new Internet.org initiative is a big news item in NPTech and global digital inclusion news. Internet.org isn’t alone among big tech companies working on the global digital divide. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion tslibraryorg digital literacy' Convergence. Image: Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Founding donors to the fund include Google Fiber , the Illig Family Foundation, Sprint , Global Prairie , Polsinelli Law , and J.E. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work. Library director, Crosby Kemper, envisions expanding library services further into public housing and community centers.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This post originally appeared at TechSoup for Libraries. I recently spoke with Alice Loy, co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. GCCE and the New Mexico State Library are partners in Fast-Forward New Mexico (FFNM), a BTOP-funded project.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

With shrinking budgets, providing increased access to the Internet and training for computer literacy can be particularly challenging for libraries and public computing centers. read more.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. Symantec Supports Women in Technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, released a free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and other working with youth locate free meal sites in the summer. The report examined how mobile devices are making an impact on literacy in developing countries. Images: iFixit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

What do libraries look like in the future? Emphasis is on digital literacy. Grantees - like Global Kids - found the right group to fund. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. What does the next generation of learning environments look like? How do those learning environments impact institutions?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Its employees use Box to share digital asset libraries and collaborate with third-party vendors. Grameen Foundation : This global microfinance nonprofit improved collaboration across four continents with Box.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. But did you know that our work is global? That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. " I have to add that one of my favorite and most prescient predictions from 2006 was by TechSoup for Libraries contributor, Phil Shapiro. This is about as certain a prediction as you'll find in this post.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The basic idea is that there is a set of skills that need to be emphasized for kids today to be good citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st century--skills like collaboration, global awareness, and media literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Lisa Libraries. The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience. There is a gap in social skills, experience, and knowledge when you only have 10-15 minutes of access in library versus 24/7 access at home. " Media literacy is a paradigm shift - not an add-in subject.

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