Online Tech Tips IDEA COLLABORATION FOR BETTER COMMUNITIES Envision Sacramento Asked: How would you rate the overall quality of life in our community? Engage Oakland Asked: Would you favor more fenced dog parks in Oakland? Los Angeles Mobility Element Asked: How would you prefer to travel around in the future? IDEA NEW: Listen to Aspen IDEA Project Chair Reed Hundt’s interview on China’s role in the global internet. Reed Hundt and Charlie Firestone recently traveled to China where they presented and distributed translated copies of the IDEA Principles to leaders there. Listen here: Toward a Single Global Digital Economy: The First Report of the Aspen Institute IDEA Project The Report resulting from the two-year long IDEA Project discusses critical steps forward for establishing a fair, effective, and empowering multi-stakeholder system for governing the flow and use of data in a single global digital economy. Download Report | Comment on the Report | About the Aspen IDEA Project Report Release Event: April 24, 2012 On April 24, the Aspen Institute launched the First Report of the Aspen IDEA Project in Washington, D.C. Watch it here:
NationBuilder Article 19: Defending freedom of expression and information IWMF - International Women's Media Foundation Benetech It was at Caltech during the 1970s when the idea hit like lightning. An engineering student named Jim Fruchterman had just learned, in a modern optics class, about how pattern recognition technology could guide a missile to its target. “If you could use this technology to recognize tanks or bridges,” Jim thought, “perhaps you could also recognize letters and words. Then we could use software to read those words aloud to people who are blind.” Benetech’s founder and CEO, Jim Fruchterman, sharing our story. It was years later, after a stint as a rocket engineer, that Jim cofounded a venture capital–backed tech company called Calera Recognition Systems. When the machine was presented to Calera’s investors, they were impressed that it worked. In 1989, Benetech was born with a business model intended to keep costs low for users, and the organization quickly became the largest maker of affordable reading systems for the blind.
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