Indian publisher, Asoke Ghosh was awarded the inaugural IPA Champion Award to celebrate his decades of service to the international publishing community to help the IPA achieve its goals on behalf of the publishing industry.
Indian publisher, Asoke Ghosh was awarded the inaugural IPA Champion Award to celebrate his decades of service to the international publishing community to help the IPA achieve its goals on behalf of the publishing industry.
The International Publishers Association team was delighted to be back at Frankfurt Book Fair with a full week of meetings.
On 16 September, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino spoke via Zoom to delegates at the PEPCon5 Conference on the topic Educational Publishing's Impact on Global Student Ranking. Borghino used the OECD’s PISA rankings to postulate that governments’ textbook policies around the world were a major influence on educational outcomes for students and learners.
The Accessible Books Consortium has partnered with accessibility experts at the DAISY Consortium to produce a new ABC course on accessible publishing. The new module, which is offered free of charge, covers key topics for publishers including best practices, accessibility standards and accessibility metadata.
Michiel Kolman, Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee spoke to Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Association (UK) about their Inclusivity Action Plan and their past work on diversity and inclusion.
I write this post while returning home from a board meeting of the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) and the celebration of the Marrakesh Treaty’s 10th anniversary at the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, in Geneva.