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The Beneblog is a weblog by Benetech CEO
Jim Fruchterman, on issues and ideas that affect the application
of technology to unmet social needs.
Posted 07/10/2009: Bookshare Announcements
The Bookshare team has been attending the summer conventions of the two major blind consumer groups, the NFB and ACB. We had great user parties, listened to our users and talked to other key players in the accessibility field.
We also announced a couple of assistive technology partnerships. The<...
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Benetech's Bookshare Library Partners With Technology Developers To Support Accessible Mobile Devices
July 8, 2009, Palo Alto, CA — Benetech's Bookshare library has partnered with two technology companies
to help ensure that people with print disabilities have accessible devices that allow them to easily read texts
from the Bookshare collection. Bookshare has announced a partnership with Shinano Kenshi Corporation, Ltd.,
that allows Bookshare members to download and read tens of thousands of accessible books and periodicals with
the new PLEXTALK™ pocket portable digital DAISY player and recorder. You can read the PLEXTALK press release
with details of this agreement here.
Bookshare has also partnered with Code Factory, developer of the Mobile Speak screen readers for mobile
phones. The Mobile Speak technology uses synthesized speech to read aloud information displayed on mobile phone
screens including ebooks stored on phones. More information about this technology and the partnership agreement
is included in the Code Factory press release.

Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) Releases Report for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
July 3, 2009, Palo Alto, CA — The Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has released a report based on its
analysis of more than 17,000 victim and witness statements collected by the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The
report, entitled
"Descriptive
Statistics From Statements to the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission,"
is included as an annex to the
final report
of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released on July 1 in Monrovia, Liberia. The
press release and
summary
of the HRDAG report provides details on the findings.
HRDAG provided the statistical expertise to transform information from the TRC statements into
scientifically-defensible knowledge to create a clear historical record and help end impunity for
the perpetrators of human rights abuses in Liberia. According to the HRDAG report, former Liberian
President Charles Taylor &mdash already on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his
role in Sierra Leone's civil war &mdash also led the Liberian rebel group responsible for the
largest number of violations during Liberia's 24 years of civil unrest.

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