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Gather a group of social entrepreneurs to brainstorm ideas to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and you will ha...

The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is today, December 3rd. The Day aims to raise awareness o...

I originally started this blog as a way to keep more of our Benetech team aware of what was going on with me and other team members (throug...

I just got an email from the incredible Liz Halperin . She's one of our Bookshare team members and also happens to be deaf and blind. ...

At the STS meeting in Kyoto, I had the pleasure of meeting France Córdova, the president of Purdue University. I took my first full pattern...

Brief Comments on Accessibility Concerns on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) The disability community should be concerned abou...

I'm going to be heading to Washington DC this week to give a talk at the National Press Club on Bookshare and our new partnerships with...

Bookshare looks for publishers to partner with us to make books more available to people with disabilities. It's very exciting that we ...

07:31 Unknown Labels: disability, Gates, Godin, Spektor, TED2009

I'm spending the week at the TED2009 conference, bylined The Great Unveiling . The last TED conference I attended was TED2, which was m...

Over the weekend just ended we successfully launched the completely rebuilt Bookshare website. The original Bookshare website and service ...

07:43 Unknown Labels: Austria, DAISY, disability, ICCHP, Linz

I just got back from a terrific week in Austria at the International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs conference. ...

As part of the large national award we received from the Department of Education, we are spending a lot more time in Washington. I talk to ...

After visiting the Chennai operation of Worth Trust, Viji and I journeyed to Katpadi, the town where Worth Trust is headquartered. Around t...