Year in Review

2024: Year in Review

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Welcomes and Recognitions

The DAISY Board and wider community benefit from the contribution of many people, and occasionally that dynamic changes, allowing a constantly fresh approach and always keeping the door open for new perspectives.

Our thanks to Alison Long from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (UK) for their years of contributions to the DAISY Board including as Treasurer for the last two years. We are delighted to welcome Dave Williams from the Royal National Institute of Blind People to the Board. Our thanks to Alice O’Reilly for taking on the role of DAISY Treasurer.

Thank you to Won Jong-pil from National Library for the Disabled (Republic of Korea) for their contribution to the Board, thanks to Myungsook Kim for taking an interim Board role ahead of us welcoming Gumsook Hoang to the Board.

No changes were recorded to the DAISY Team in 2024.

DAISY Board and General Meetings

In May 2024 our Board and General Meetings took place in Paris, France, kindly hosted by Association Valentin Haüy as a representative of DAISY France, and held alongside the EDRLab Digital Publishing Summit.

Photo of George Kerscher standing at a podium with a microphone, behind him a large Digital Publishing Summit 2024 slide is projected

Caption: George Kerscher delivering the keynote presentation at the Digital Publishing Summit 2024.

Our November 2024 Board meeting were held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, kindly hosted by the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind, in association with their International Conference on Accessibility.

photo of the DAISY board members gathered around a table with laptops

Caption: The DAISY Board Meeting taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil.


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