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Hiroshi Kawamura

Research Advisor, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Research Institute
Vice President, Assistive Technology Development Organization
President, DAISY Consortium

Hiroshi Kawamura worked for General Library of the University of Tokyo from 1970 to 1997. Then he served as Director of the Information Centre of the Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities and as Director, Department of Social Rehabilitation of the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Research Institute.

Kawamura pursues the universal design of knowledge and information sharing system that may serve everybody in the community and strives to achieve harmonious development of the right of access to information and copyrights. Based on the idea of social inclusion, he is also committed to research and development on disaster preparedness of persons with disabilities and old people through sharing knowledge and information on the right time and in accessible format.

Standing Committee, IFLA/LBS
Board of GLADNET
United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development
Steering Council of WAI/W3C
World Blind Union Working Group on United nations
JICA Advisory Committee on Persons with Disabilities