News & Events

News & Events

Here you will find the latest news as well as upcoming and previous events.

Dalia’s Journey: Improving Accessible Reading in Arabic

Illustration: a woman wearing a hijab and headphones sits in a library armchair, listening to an audiobook on a tablet, with a white cane beside her. The screen displays an AI-generated Arabic translation of an excerpt from “On Children” in The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
Dalia was born and raised in a North African country. Blind from an early age, she attended a school for blind students, where she learnt in braille and quickly developed…

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Smart Libraries: AI Use in South Korea

illustration of a woman interacting with a giant digital book, with a pile of other books in the background
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping how information is created, accessed and delivered. For libraries, this new technology presents many opportunities as well as questions about how to best adopt and…

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30 Years of the DAISY Consortium

DAISY 30th Anniversary 1996-2026
Today, we celebrate an important milestone: 30 years of the DAISY Consortium. Let me briefly take you back to where it all began. In the late 1980s, the Swedish Library…

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Upcoming Events

ICEVI Africa Conference 2026

September 28, 2026 - October 2, 2026

Emperors Palace, Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa

M-Enabling Summit 2026

October 5, 2026 - October 7, 2026

Arlington, Virginia, USA

Frankfurt Book Fair 2026

October 7, 2026 - October 11, 2026

Frankfurt, Germany

Workshop on Accessible Manga and Comics

Date: November 10, 2026

Tokyo, Japan

DAISY Board Meeting November 2026

November 11, 2026 - November 12, 2026

Tokyo, Japan

International Conference on the Implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty

November 13, 2026 - November 14, 2026

Tokyo, Japan