 I think that we are desperately in need of good news in the world today. And this week, from the World Intellectual Property Organization, we do have some good news. A new treaty, the Marrakesh Treaty, to facilitate access to published works for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled is coming into force because the 20th country has ratified this Marrakesh Treaty. What does the Marrakesh Treaty do? It seeks to cure what's known as the Book Femin, that is the absence or dearth of works that are available in accessible formats like Braille for blind persons and other visually impaired persons. And it does so by creating a universal exception around the world to copyright, to enable appropriate institutions such as libraries and blind institutions to create an accessible format of the work without regard to the copyright. The second thing it does is it enables those accessible formats to travel around the world. So that a blind person, for example in Zambia, would be able to take advantage of an accessible format of a work that is available in the United Kingdom. So 20 countries, 20 states were required to bring the treaty which was concluded three years ago into force and that has happened this week with the accessions to the Treaty of Ecuador, Guatemala and Canada. We now need many more countries to join this treaty so as to create a world in which blind persons truly have the opportunity to participate in literacy in the same way that seeing persons do.