Today, 9 October, Guido Gybels, Director of New Technologies, gave a rallying speech before an international audience at the Institute of Physics in London. The event was a seminar on text communications organised by TAG and WGHI with speakers and attendees from Europe, the US and Australia. The speech delivered by Guido Gybels was widely applauded for setting out a bold but realistic vision on the future of text communications. It called for a united vision to bring the needs of deaf and hard of hearing people into the mainstream. The full text of the speech can be found here.