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>>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:11:54 +1100
>>Subject: Stream Newswire - Advocacy for Improved Information Access
>>
>>Dear Victor Reader Stream Friends:
>>
>>As a friend of DAISY, HumanWare believes the following request from
>>the DAISY Consortium may be of interest to Stream users. Some of
>>you may wish to support this important advocacy initiative to
>>improve access to information for blind and low vision people
>>ultimately making more content available to enjoy on your Stream.
>>
>>
>>Message from the DAISY Consortium...
>>Dear DAISY Members and Friends,
>>
>>The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be considering a
>>copyright treaty proposed by the World Blind Union (WBU) at the WIPO
>>November 3 Standing Committee Meeting. The treaty, called "WIPO Treaty for
>>Improved Access for Blind, Visually Impaired and other Reading Disabled
>>Persons" is available online at:
>>
>>http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/tvi/tvi_en.html.
>>
>>We are asking all of you to contact your country's representative who will
>>be attending the WIPO Standing Committee meeting and advocate in favor of
>>this draft treaty. We need you to act now, because the meeting will take
>>place in ten days.
>>
>>Information and links to supporting documents are provided immediately
below
>>in this email. We also offer some guidance on who to contact in your
country
>>and some assistance finding the right person.
>>
>>1. On the front page of the DAISY Website under "Recent News" is the link
to
>>an article that provides further detail. It also contains links to the
draft
>>treaty in HTML, DAISY 2.02, and in DAISY 3. DAISY home page:
>>
>>http://www.daisy.org
>>
>>Direct link to the news entry:
>>
>>http://www.daisy.org/news/news_detail.shtml?NewsId=458
>>
>>2. The WIPO Standing Committee will be meeting November 3-7, 2008 and the
>>WBU proposed treaty is the first substantive item on the agenda. The
agenda
>>can be found at:
>>
>>http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=108373
>>
>>3. DAISY Members and Friends should send their email letter in support of
>>the proposed treaty to the department/minister that is going to represent
>>their government in the SCCR/WIPO meeting. This information can normally
be
>>found within the department of foreign affairs and education in your
>>country. If anybody has difficulties finding their SCCR representative we
>>have provided names of those who attended the last meeting. This can be
>>found at:
>>
>>http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/tvi/wipo_delegates_sccr16.html#toc17
>>
>>If you are unable to find the name of the representative in your country
at
>>the link provided above, please contact Judit Rius Sanjuan
>>[[log in to unmask]] and/or Thiru Balasubramaniam
>>[[log in to unmask]].
>>
>>4. The treaty proposal put forward by the WBU is an extremely important
>>document which addresses information access on an international level. We
>>suggest you familiarize yourself with the proposal, and ask that each of
you
>>contact the government representative in your country who will attend the
>>SCCR/WIPO meeting. Background and talking points are available at:
>>
>>http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/tvi/tvi_memo_en.html
>>
>>Best
>>
>>George Kerscher, Secretary General, DAISY Consortium
>>
>>
>>
>>George Kerscher Ph.D.
>>
>>Access to information is a fundamental human right in our Information Age.
>>Senior Officer, Accessible Information
>>Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D)
>>http://www.rfbd.org
>>Secretary General, DAISY Consortium
>>http://www.daisy.org
>>Co-chair Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the W3C
>>http://www.w3c.org/wai
>>Board Representative to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
>>http://www.idpf.org
>>
>>
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