Expanding Engineering and Development Staff to Meet Increasing Demand from the Social Sector Benetech, Silicon Valley’s intentionally nonprofit technology company, announced the addition of two seasoned professionals to its senior management staff. Gerardo Capiel will serve as Benetech’s new Vice President of Engineering and Thomas L. Stephenson is the company’s new Chief Development Officer. “Benetech […]
New Release of Conservation Software Improves Biodiversity Planning and Analysis of Impact on Human Welfare Benetech® and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) have released Miradi 3.0, an enhanced and expanded version of the user-friendly software that allows nature conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects. Miradi 3.0 incorporates a new work planning […]
Breakthrough Agreement Reduces Costs for Postsecondary Institutions; Improves Timely Access to Core Textbooks in Accessible Formats December 14, 2009, Nyack, NY and Palo Alto, CA – Flat World Knowledge, the leading publisher of expert-authored, open content college textbooks, today became the first dedicated college textbook publisher to supply its digital textbooks to Bookshare, the world’s […]
Open Content Textbooks Available to All without Proof of Disability The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has awarded Bookshare $100K in supplemental funding to create the first accessible versions of open content digital textbooks. The initial planned conversion of open content textbooks, which are distributed freely under a license selected […]
Major Reference Collections Now Accessible for Individuals with Print Disabilities Worldwide Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., today announced an agreement with Bookshare to grant worldwide digital rights to its major reference collections. Bookshare is the world’s largest accessible online library for people with print disabilities. These collections will add a wealth of academic resources to Bookshare. They […]
