The 5th General Assembly will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from Sunday 6 to Thursday 10 May 2012.
For further details please download the following documents (Microsoft Word [.doc] format):
Registration announcement and
Registration Form.
On October 21st, 2011, the UK Association for Accessible Formats voted to adopt UEB as the preferred code in the UK. See the announcement UKAAF Adopts UEB as the braille code for the UK. The UK thereby joins Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria and South Africa as having officially adopted Unified English Braille.
The purpose of the International Council on English Braille is to coordinate and improve standards for braille usage for all English-speaking users of braille. The members of the ICEB are the various countries where English is spoken (and membership is open to all such countries); representatives to ICEB are named by the accepted authorities that set braille standards within those countries. The present membership includes:
The ICEB General Assembly meets every four years. The next one will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa (see announcement above). Previous General Assemblies have been held in Australia (2008), Canada (2004), the USA (1999) and the UK (1995).
The ICEB's Executive Committee meets continuously by e-mail, in person immediately before and after each General Assembly, and at an interim meeting approximately midway between successive General Assemblies.
The ICEB Constitution was adopted May 31, 1991.
There is a discussion list, open to all who are interested, on
English Braille Codes and related topics -- with particular
emphasis on matters pertaining to ICEB's technical projects (e.g.
how well UEB or other codes work for representing technical
notation, or for translation by computer). The list is named
"icebrl". To join it, create a message with the word
subscribe
in the subject and email the message to icebrl-request@freelists.org.
Please follow the instructions that you receive by e-mail
thereafter. (Alternatively, you may visit http://www.freelists.org
to subscribe, unsubscribe, set vacation mode or other options
through a Web form. An archive for icebrl is also maintained at
that site.)
Each ICEB working committee also maintains a list for its deliberations; follow the information links under "ICEB Projects," above.
For further information about the ICEB, see ICEB contact information.
See also the current ICEB Brochure for a more complete mission statement, information on activities and sources of funding, and other ways of contacting ICEB.

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