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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Success is when the person in Panama has access to 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 titles; success is when the blind person in Durban has access to all the books that the blind person in Denver has access to […] The miracle comes when I know that the 300 million people around the world with significant visual impairments are getting more access to books.

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

Have Fun - Do Good

In developing countries, the only means of individual transportation available to everybody is a bicycle. The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5. Honduras 8. Guatemala 9. El Salvador 10.