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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced.

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Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Global Redesign Initiative is one of the core themes of next week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. What about literacy and education? National governments should encourage the creation of enterprises with explicitly social objectives. Regulation is helpful, but not enough.

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