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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Don’t Be Fooled by Abstract Jargon: Internet Governance and ICT Policy

Tech Soup

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role. However, with Internet use also come problems such as cybercrime, lack of data privacy, and data security.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. Interesting proposition. a) In General.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. This Challenge is void in the U.S.

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New Pew Research Report: The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. This is the ninth Future of the Internet study the two organizations have conducted together.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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