"In the face of this difficult economic climate and the increasing scarcity of research dollars it is time to revisit the idea of striking a better balance between encouraging profit, innovation, accessibility and affordability," the senator wrote in a letter intended for public release on Tuesday.
Driven by the values of innovation, accessibility, openness and quality, I intend to acquire inaccessible global content by encouraging a worldwide community to contribute; a means of saying thank you in helping the project is through sending the scanner a 3D print of the sculpture they scanned for free".
Walking the Arts Council's bureaucratic tightrope of "innovation" and "accessibility", it has inevitably missed some steps.
Innovation and accessibility propel the Windy City's food scene, second only to New York's for the recognition it has received from the prestigious James Beard Foundation (more than 40 chef and restaurant awards).
This year's Apple Design Award winner for Innovation in Accessibility is Blackbox, by Ryan McLeod.
In the end, democratic governments are intended to represent all their citizens, but as the public squares through which we interact with our leaders are increasingly privatized and focused on technological innovation over accessibility and inclusivity, we risk increasing the very divides the web had promised to bridge.
It took years before I was comfortable talking about my hearing loss, but now I proudly advocate for the hard of hearing community and push for innovation in hearing accessibility.
Elsewhere, Nintendo's familiar blend of accessibility and innovation was evident in WarioWare DIY – a handheld minigame creator; FlipSmash – bat a spherical hero around colourful levels filled with destructible blocks; and the DSi's Photo Dojo, where the console's camera and microphone let players feature in their own beat-'em-up.
"The novelty here is that we take the capabilities that you find in national programmes and combine them, basically, with the accessibility and innovation you find in commercial programmes," Patrick Biewer, the CEO of GovSat, the public-private joint venture set up to run the new service, told BBC News.
In case you missed the confirmation hearing for secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price repeatedly defended his policies under "six principles" that he believes should guide our health care reform: affordability, accessibility, quality, innovation, choices, and responsiveness.
His proposed Ecological Impact Fund would explicitly link the accessibility of an innovation to its value, creating a "much better alignment of the private reward with the social benefit," Dr. Pogge said in an interview.
