Book chapter. Accessing Books and Documents, in Assistive Technology for Vision-impaired and Blind People, edited by Marion A. Hersh and Michael A. Johnson, forthcoming book from Springer-Verlag (2008).
Invited Essay. Developing Information Technology to Meet Social Needs, in Innovations, an MIT Press journal (forthcoming in Winter, 2008).
Editorial. June 17, 2007. My first op ed on the raising the floor concept published in the Sacramento Bee, Everyone deserves access to technology, online world, co-authored with Prof. Gregg Vanderheiden. This op ed was based from remarks I made to the California Emerging Technology Fund's Roundtable.
Major Article — April 3, 2007, Co-authored a major paper, published by the Skoll Centre at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, that analyzes the financial challenges faced by maturing Social Enterprises that seek access to expansion capital. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Addressing the Critical Gaps in Risk-Taking Capital for Social Enterprise was co-written with Jed Emerson, a Senior Fellow with the Generation Foundation of Generation Investment Management and Tim Freundlich, the Director of Strategic Development at the Calvert Social Investment Foundation.
Editorial. November 13, 2006. Build Great Companies, Then Help Build a Great World, OpEd in The San Jose Mercury News.
Major Speech. World Summit on the Information Society — November 15, 2005, My remarks at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia . The focus of the speech was on building a global digital library for people with print disabilities. Read my speech to the World Summit on the Information Society (PDF)
White Paper. Google Print and Accessibility, 2005
Article. Technology Benefiting Humanity, published in Ubiquity, the ACM’s on-line journal, 2004
Article. In the Palm of Your Hand: A Vision of the Future of Technology for People with Visual Impairments, published in the American Foundation for the Blind’s Journal of Vision Impairment and Blindness, October 2003.
Article. The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights Conflict and Access to Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities, published in First Monday, co-authored with George Kerscher, the International Project Manager of the DAISY Consortium, May 2002
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