Disabilityin WSIS Context
Affordable ICT Development with Universal Design Concept and Assistive Technologies
Hiroshi Kawamura
National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Research Institute
hkawa@rehab.go.jp
Disability Caucus
- Open to everybody who are concerned with persons with disabilities in WSIS process
- E-mailing list: pwd@wsis-cs.org
- PrepComs
- Summit Event: Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society, 1stand 2nd
- Seeking development of affordable and sustainable ICT that meets the requirements of PWDs
- Action Plan development and implementation
Expected Outcomes of WSIS
- Equal digital opportunities for persons with disabilities
- Assistive technologies
- Universal Design
- Equal participation of persons with disabilities for human centered inclusive democratic ubiquitous society
How are we going to achieve the Goals?
- Participation of persons with disabilities in the Process
- Global Networking of concerned individuals through accessible communication channels: e-mail list: pwd@wsis-cs.org
- Raising awareness on the significance of WSIS
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Developing organizational networking
- International Disability Alliance
- DAISY Consortium
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
- International Federation of Library Associations
Global Forum on Disabilities in Tunis
- Theme of sessions
- Best Practice Show Cases
- Disaster Preparedness of PWDs
- Global Panel of Persons with Disabilities
- Declarations
- Full participation support
- Exhibition
- Document distribution in DAISY format
ICT Design Issues
- How do we design our own house?
- Participation is default
- Knowledge sharing
- Communication
- Age concerned issues; children and old people
- Gender aspects
- Disabilities
- Illness...
- New home should NOT create new barriers BUT provide full access to all members?
ICT Design must provide technology solution and must NOT create new barriers: guidelines
Conclusion
- Active Participation of Persons with Disabilities as resource people
- Assistive ICT and Universal Design Development
- Affordability and sustainability is key
- Open, non-proprietary, inter-operable standard development in ICT