Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Today, 10 languages make up 82% of web content. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. The Rise of NGOs in Developing Nations. According to the Public Interest Registry, more than 3,000,000 NGOs will come online by 2025. In the 1990’s, English made up 80% of web content. The Rise of Messaging Apps.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection. In the rural region of Ranipet in Tamil Nadu, India, 500 Bookshare texts, which had their spines removed for scanning, have been acquired by the Vedavalli Vidyalaya school.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. He's really helped us move forward with our India projects, thanks to our India project manager, Viji Dilip, who joined me there and who has made all of these great Chennai connections for us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lavelle Foundation, Bookshare has been able to work with Worth Trust, a nonprofit with offices in Chennai, India. For the employees English is not their first language and for some it was not the medium of instruction. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2008

The Times of India covered the story during my visit, Disabled in city help blind in US. Plus, as we get more permissions from India publishers, we'll be able to source English language books locally. And, hopefully in the future we'll be able to do books in Indian languages like Hindi and Tamil (and many others, of course).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

I had an introduction to the one of key leaders in India's outsourcing revolution, Mr. F.C. We had a great conversation high above south Mumbai in the Air India building, which overlooks Mumbai's peninsula. The reason I came to Mumbai was to visit Tata Consultancy Services, the giant outsourcing firm.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

Founded by Indian Institute of Management professor Brij Kothari, the first concept was same language subtitling. When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. They first created original visual story content, and then added different languages.

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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. Format your tweets for easy reading. Don’t use uncommon abbreviations and always use proper punctuation and grammar.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

We talked about bringing English language Bookshare to Qataris with print disabilities, and our discussions quickly went to what it would take to truly serve Arabic speakers in Qatar and around the world. There is a tremendous need to expand accessible content in the languages that most people with print disabilities around the world use.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. This will be important for books in languages that cross national boundaries, languages like English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Bangla/Bengali, Indonesian, Swahili and so on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We just announced a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative , to increase our impact in India by an order of magnitude. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries. million grant from the U.S.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2009

LifeLines India allows them to call in and —using a voice activated system in their local language — get advice about their needs. Cisco writes about a public-private partnership they have had with British Telecom and OneWorld that offers a voice accessible knowledgebase for rural farmers. read more.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I had the chance to brief the WIPO team working on these issues about what Bookshare is doing internationally right now, such as our work bringing Bookshare to India as a prototype of what we could be doing in other countries.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. In a small village in India, 9 year-old Fatima lives in a tiny hut with her parents Priya and Amit. Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. Setting: This is where your story happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? What language are you speaking? The same is true for many other languages. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Probably not. Probably not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

Write posts in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Format your posts for easy reading. Don’t use uncommon acronyms and abbreviations and always use proper punctuation and grammar.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Open at first only to users in the US and India, Facebook Lite is now available to all English-language users. Overnight, last night, Facebook rolled out its long-awaited Facebook Lite — a new, faster, stripped-down version of the social networking site. read more ).

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Candid

JULY 17, 2024

The innovations and technologies mentioned in the survey are: green energy, such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and wind and solar power; artificial intelligence, including machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI; gene-based medicine, such as mRNA vaccines, gene splicing, and gene therapy; and genetically modified foods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

He mentioned developments in the technology – like the $35 tablet in India – that are getting many more people who were left out connected. In NYC, in the back of the auditorium, there was a multi-language rumble going on as translators were translating speaker’s remarks into 7 languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

We’ve published those results and our partner network has translated the executive summary into a wide variety of languages. We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America. So we asked and more than 10,500 organizations from 88 countries and they answered.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

This seems unreasonably modest, when Bookshare alone already has much more favorable voluntary agreements covering 20,000 English language titles and 1,000 Spanish language titles with many of the major U.S. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It bears mentioning that the executive summary of our findings (in several languages) and full report (in English) are available at no cost to everyone. Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. What Didn't Surprise Me.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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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. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# If you have had a change to play with Jumo and have some insights, please share in the comments. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin. Two of the questions were “Which of these places would you most like to visit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam. Community Technology Centres for Children And Young Adults in Low and Moderate Income Communities in Madurai India. It's really hard to narrow it down to 5-10 projects, but here's a sampling of the diversity of projects and causes represented. Creative Commons suggests. Avatar Action Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

The program was presented at the Texting for Health Conference this past February, and hopes to provide the tool in multiple languages as well! *. Objective : Increase the visibilty and utilization of the Fair & Lovely Foundation’s scholarship program among women and girls in low-income groups in rural and urban India.

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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. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What is Jumo?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant. It is really important to pay attention to body language (discomfort, confusion, boredom, etc.) I always bring a suitcase of supplies, but some spaces come equipped with supplies.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Most online donation tools offer default language for this, but you need to customize it so the language is warm and on brand. Illuminate India has a fabulous video on their home page : 6. And it should be clear that it’s their receipt. For more help, check out this online donation receipt template. Offer an easy opt-in.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 20, 2024

Among the 930 respondents, 549 were from the GivingTuesday network of nonprofits, most of which are based in the United States, 251 were based in India, 86 were from partner networks that focus on AI and technology and 44 were from GivingTuesday’s global network outside of North America.

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