Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

As a non-lawyer, let me explain from the point of view of a technologist who cares passionately about accessibility for people with disabilities. As the parent nonprofit organization of the Bookshare online library, a leading provider of accessible books to people with print disabilities in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. Napster made me think of how peer-to-peer information sharing could help people with disabilities. said Stevie.

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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

MARCH 2, 2012

For the past ten years, Benetech’s Bookshare library has provided accessible books for people with print disabilities. Bookshare helps people who cannot read standard text participate in the world of ideas. The organization works with people in their 20s, to elder artists in their 80s. You can too!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Our work to date repeatedly demonstrates bridging this market failure gap: Our Literacy team has reinvented the traditional library for the blind, reducing the cost of producing an accessible book by a factor of 100 and ending the book famine that people who are blind or print disabled have faced for years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 16, 2005

We just hit 20,000 titles on our electronic book library for people with print disabilities. We are delivering more and more books that meet the literacy needs of our users, by providing the latest bestsellers, textbooks and daily newspapers into accessible form.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2004

Benetech achieves our goals with a great deal of assistance from people who share our dedication to technology better serving humanity. Bookshare.org, our on-line electronic book library for people with disabilities, is built by volunteers. We are especially blessed with incredible volunteers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The great majority of social enterprises are nonprofit organizations dedicated to the social good through employing disadvantaged people, educating students, improving the environment, advancing health care, respect for human rights and so many other beneficial activities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

People with disabilities make up an estimated 15% of the world’s population of 7 billion, and they remain largely marginalized and affected by discrimination and unemployment, among other significant difficulties. Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy? " The Role of Libraries. The Role of Schools.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2021

Whether it was trying to attend classes, apply for government benefits, or practice religion, many people were excluded from fully participating in their communities. Ellie Avis, a fellow in Josephine County, OR, launched a hotspot lending program that allows library patrons to bring their connectivity home.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Back in September, we posted a summary of App It Up's nonprofit and library apps survey. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. Nonprofits and libraries are interested in building their own apps, though they.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

At TechSoup, we support the efforts of nonprofits and public libraries working to build digitally inclusive and literate communities through donated technology from our corporate partners. project is focused on teaching digital literacy to young people so they can be prepared for 21 st. Microsoft's YouthSpark. century jobs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Guest post by Betsy Beaumon, President, Benetech We are seeking visionary leaders to join Benetech in applying technology to advance the rights of disadvantaged people around the world. Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” from the majority of IP owners we approach. Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust. What’s next?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Promova , whose mission is to make language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent, is the first language learning app to build a dedicated setting for those with dyslexiaa specialized typeface and adjustments to font size and brightness help mitigate some of the most common reading challenges that people with dyslexia experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Robin was beloved by the hundreds, if not thousands, of people who had the honor of coming into direct contact with her. However, I'm here to spotlight the impact Robin had on millions of people who never had the pleasure of meeting her personally. If it works, libraries like Bookshare would mainly be put out of business.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

What about that literacy initiative, or the Jobs Program? As technology becomes ever more powerful and less expensive, we can help to focus resources and assets on the needs of people, not the technology. Need to focus on Elder Care? Douglas Zimmerman President & CEO VisionLink, Inc.'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

This award, in the form of a plaque, recognizes a sighted person who has contributed to the well-being of blind people. Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. Mark founded InvisiblePeople.tv , a nationally-recognized nonprofit that fights homelessness using the power of social media.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

With this concentrated focus, and despite having a job’s market where unemployment rates were sky-high, the Tableau Certification program also reached an all-time high—85% of people who earned a Tableau Certification title got Tableau Certified for the first time. Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. See Figure 2).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

With this concentrated focus, and despite having a job’s market where unemployment rates were sky-high, the Tableau Certification program also reached an all-time high—85% of people who earned a Tableau Certification title got Tableau Certified for the first time. Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. See Figure 2).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Benetech's mission is to create technology that serves humanity and our longest-running commitment is to people with disabilities. We have been helping blind and print disabled people gain access to books for over 17 years. Perhaps it's because I work in the fields of disability, literacy and human rights.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

It addresses the thorny problem of bringing the 25 percent or so of people in the city who are still not participating in the information age to inclusion. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries'

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. Explore the pervasive technology gap in our nation. Digitunity’s vision to close the technology gap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Its library has more than 3,000 micro-skills and personalized learning plans. “It The skills data then can go to the organization to determine who are the people that can work together best and have a complementary skill set.”. It is what we call precision upskilling,” he told TechCrunch.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés. Explore the pervasive technology gap in our nation. Digitunity’s vision to close the technology gap.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

“We were just two people who wanted to play an instrument and felt we were missing out,” Thür said. Thür said Yousician allows people to learn music on their own schedule, at a much lower cost than in-person lessons. “We want to make musicality to be as common as literacy,” Thür said.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On December 17, TechSoup hosted a SoupChat for nonprofits and libraries looking for more information on website design and hosting. A staffer from a small library listed a few popular services — WordPress, Wix, and Weebly — adding that she worried she might regret her decision six months down the road. Migrating Your Site.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

TechSoup has partnered with goQ Software to make their writing assistance and speech recognition software, WordQ + SpeakQ , available to eligible nonprofits and libraries. According to Proliteracy , low literacy's effects cost the U.S. WordQ + SpeakQ Is a Solution for Those Who Struggle with Writing.

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