[vicsireland] Re: Stream Newswire - Advocacy for Improved Information Access
- From: "Gerard Ellis" <gerry.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:52:20 +0100
Hi, Gus,
Thanks very much for this. I didn't know that such a vote was coming up.
I have contacted the NDA and the NCBI and asked them both to contact the
irish delegates. I have also spoken with Ciaran Ferry to see if VICS can do
likewise. I plan to also contact them personally.
Take Care,
Gerry Ellis
Tel +353-(0)1 282-7791
Mob +353-(0)85 716-8665
If you don't know where you're going,
How will you know when you get there?
----- Original Message -----
From: <dguss@xxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:00 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Stream Newswire - Advocacy for Improved Information
Access
The repesentive for Ireland are:
IRELAND
Brian McCABE, Assistant Principal, Department of Enterprise, Trade and
Employment, Dublin
Brian HIGGINS, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Ireland, Geneva
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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
[judit.rius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] and/or Thiru Balasubramaniam
[thiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx].
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
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