[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [Pwd] Disability Caucus speaking slot on 25th Friday

[Monthian Buntan]

Dear Hiroshi:

Well, if we have to deal with financial mechanism, then I would go as follows:

1. Any criteria for funding support for ICT development, ICT training and 
ICT services must take disability-inclusiveness into account.
2. ICT development, following the principle of universal design, and 
assistive tech development must receive preferencial treatment over 
unfriendly/inaccessible ICT.
3. Universally designed ICTs and assistive technologies should receive 
duty-free status.

I hope our points will be well taken.

Best,

Thian



At 01:14 AM 2/25/2005, Hiroshi Kawamura wrote:
> From Civil Society Contents & Themes meeting at Plais de Nations, Geneva
>
>To our surprise, all CS speaking slots on 25th at the Plenary including 
>the one allocated to the
>Disability Caucus on "WSIS modality and implementation phase" was 
>cancelled by the PrepCom
>Secretariat, and instead, Disability Caucus is going to have a speaking 
>slot on "financing
>mechanisms", para 12-25 of the Chapter 2 of the "Operational part of the 
>final document" of "Report of
>the Work of the Group of Friends of the Chair", for 5 minutes.
>I am going to draft the intervention within several hours to submit to the 
>secretariat for
>simultaneous interpretation.
>
>The original text the report is found at the following url:
>
>http://www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory2/pc2/index.html
>
>Please come up with suggestions on the points I must include in the 5 
>minutes intervention.
>Please note that the topic need to be focused on the subject of the 
>session, i.e. "Financial
>mechanisms [for meeting the challenge of ICT for development]"
>
>Looking forward to your contributions.
>
>Best
>
>Hiorshi in Geneva
>------------------------
>Hiroshi Kawamura
>Disability Focal Point
>
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