2025: Year in Review
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 Dave Williams and Lara Marshall for their contributions to the Board representing RNIB, and we’re delighted to welcome Helen Atwere to the Board.
We thank Daniel Frelén of MTM who has represented the Swedish DAISY Consortium at the Board since 2022, and we welcome Martin Persson.
Thank you Daniel Dam Freiling who has been contributing to the Board on behalf of Nota, Denmark since 2021, a very warm welcome to Jonas Manley.
Our gratitude to Minna von Zansen for their many contributions representing the Finnish DAISY Consortium on the Board since 2018, we’re happy to welcome Juha Nurro to the Board.
We also had the pleasure of welcoming two new organizations to the DAISY board:
- Canadian DAISY Consortium, a new coalition of organizations engaged in accessible formats across Canada, represented by Laurie Davidson.
- Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind in Brazil, after being Associate Members of DAISY for many years have now become Full Members, welcome to Alexandre Munck.
No changes were recorded to the DAISY Team in 2025.
DAISY Board and General Meetings
In June 2025 our Board and General Meetings took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, kindly hosted by Dedicon, alongside the wonderful Tactile Reading Conference, delivering 3 days of presentations, workshops and discussion on all things accessible reading. It was a truly inspiring event for all participants.
Caption: photo of the Tactile Reading 2025 event team
Our November 2025 Board meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, kindly hosted by WIPO and the Accessible Books Consortium, alongside a meeting of the ABC Global Book Service. The DAISY Board meeting included a series of presentations in an open session which was live streamed via webinar to an international audience and made available to those unable to attend.
Caption: screen capture from the open board meeting live stream
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