DAISY Consortium Strategy 2008-2011

2007 April / May

DAISY STRATEGY 2008-2011

2007 April / May

DAISY STRATEGY 2008-2011

“Access to Information is a Fundamental Human Right”

• Strategy 2008 – 2011• Timing of term for next President• High level approach• Strategic planning process has begun• You are invited to contribute• We are asking for your input, thoughts, and comments

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Today’s Table of Contents

1. Achievements to build upon

2. A few trends of the information society which we should notice carefully

3. Issues on the agenda for 2008 – 2011

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Looking Back: Achievements and Experiences to Build Upon

• A well functioning organization with global coverage• An internationally adopted technical standard• A respected voice in international organizations:

UN, WSIS, WIPO, W3C, WAI, WBU, IFLA• World wide implementation of the standard • DAISY is the most broadly adopted Access

Technology in history, with more than 200,000 reading systems (players) in the world

• Future-focused tools such as the DAISY Pipeline plus visionary concepts for the future developments

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DORIS, DAISY user from the UK

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DAISY in India

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Inge, experienced DAISY– user, DK

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‘My library weighs 835 gram…’

Stig Langvad, President of the umbrella organization “Disabled Citizens of Denmark”

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Tibetan Hands on DAISY Player

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DAISY Flourishes

• Membership continues to increase

• 14 full member organizations

• 58 associate member organizations from 33 countries

• 23 friends from 10 countries

• 7 Individual supporters

• 1 Educator/publisher

• DFA Focal Points

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DAISY For All Focal Points Flourish

• 2003 India and Thailand

• 2004 Nepal, Malaysia and Sri Lanka

• 2005 Bangladeshi, Indonesia, Vietnam

• 2006 Pakistan, Philippines and Bhutan

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Training DAISY – Bangkok 2003

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Reaching out – a DAISY key lobbyist in action

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A Historically Unique Opportunity

• The wind is at our backs

• We have a moral imperative

• We have the responsibility to seek the full potential from new technologies

• There is an International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• We are obliged and enabled, how and what do we prioritize?

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The future context

• What technological changes will or should affect our thinking?

• What opportunities or threats does this future context bring to the DAISY Consortium?

• What “tracks” should we lay to get to where we need to be?

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Today’s Mass Media Changes Society

• Always on 24/7• Mobility, flexibility• Resulting in: Information Overload• ’How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything’

MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Linux, Second Life, Web blogs

• The Semantic Web• Users create content• Google book search • Libraries in general are on the defensive• Traditional publishers likewise

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Why is Information Access Essential?

• It enables inclusion

• It supports learning

• It provides cultural identity

• It enables social development

• It supports information diversity

• It enables knowledge and creativity

• It strengthens quality of life

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DAISY 2008 - 2011

DAISY has made a lot of success.What else do we need to do?

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Technical Directions Review

• Providing relevant support• Developing necessary upgrades• Embracing both consistency and flexibility• Our developments must be platform

independent – ipod, cell-phone…• Our developments must be forward looking• Our ‘offers’ must be affordable

We must be on top of Emerging Technologies to move forward

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Pervasive DAISY

• New target groups, different disability groups, the aging population

• Indigenous communities • Educators and policy setting bodies in the

educational field• DAISY in Web 2.0. Interactive, ’user driven’• Governments, International policy setting bodies,

humanitarian organizations• Commercial companies, mainstream publishers• The player & reading system industry

We Will Reach Out To:

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Consolidation

• IP-policy

• Licensing-policy

• Limited trademark protection

• Future-minded governance

• Development of a DAISY open source community

DC strives to be recognized as a trustworthy collaborative partner, with sophisticated technological skills andworldwide coverage

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Copyright: Issues and Changing Approaches

• From analogue to digital context• Export and import of digital information• Variances in national legislation• Different legislated rights in different countries• The right to circumvent• On-line distribution• Respect the rights of copy right holders

Access Worldwide

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DAISY for end users

• More accessible content at hand

• In a variety of formats – platform independent

• Developed specifically to meet end users needs

• Cheaper copies

• Same method used worldwide

A Better Way to Read

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DAISY FOR PUBLISHERS

• The same source code for a limitless variety of published versions

• Add new facilities to the books published

• Reach out to a new market

A Better Way to Publish

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Getting the Message Across

• So what is open source?

• Commercial developers can build on top of DAISY development

DAISY as a business friendly open source community

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DAISY in Developing Countries

Thinking global

The DC and DAISY For All (DFA) Project:• Development of tools which provide local language

support• Advocacy and local support• Establish and ensure sustainability of Focal Points• Training and Support• Support for DAISY in Africa• Raise funds and ensure a friendly fee structure

We will continue embrace developing countries and promote the development of a worldwide digital library

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Our Members are the Driving Force

• We will clearly define and market the benefits for our membership

• Communicate the return on investing in “the DAISY way”

• Develop a new generation of DAISY Governance

The DC must continue to provide Benefits of Value for its Members

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Become Involved with DAISY

• The moral imperative of the DC Vision• Participation in the development of the overall strategy

to chart the course for the future• Participation in an international network of future

thinking and trend setting partners• Providing leadership in accessible information on a

national level• Ensuring that access to information becomes a priority

locally, nationally and around the world

Reasons for being a part of the DAISY Community

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Budget and Funding

• Membership Fees: current primary source of funding• Member contributions in addition to membership

fees• Partnerships• Fundraising activities (NIPPON - DFA) • New DAISY fundraising initiatives in place, with

much more yet to be done• New cooperative activities with Members (RNIB)

We must ensure financial sustainability of the DC and provideadditional capital to realize our plans for the future

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Our Strategic Process Continues

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