[WSIS CS-Plenary] Welcome to 2nd Global Forum on Disability
Chikako YAMAKI
chikakok-tky at umin.ac.jp
Sat Nov 5 16:01:38 GMT 2005
Dear friends,
I'm very happy to invite you to Global Forum on Disability (GFD) on 15th and
18th, 9:00-13:00, at room Amilcar in Kram PalExpo. Please find the attached
draft of the GFD.
The room is inside the security zone, so all the participants need budge for
WSIS. Anyone who would like to register under umbrella of DAISY Consortium,
we delightedly help you.
We understand that most of you would like to know more about exact place of
the room, the accessible route for wheelchair users and so on.
Unfortunately, we can get too little information in this point because
authorities limit their information for the security of VIP.
It will be after we arrive Tunis and get the budge that we can know more
about the venue.
As we are in these situation, we'd like to have a meeting for the
participants of GFD on 14th evening at somewhere in the Iberostar Belisaire
hotel to share the information.
Those who want to share the information but don't stay at Iberostar hotel,
please let us know the time you arrive, the place you stay and the way to
contact you.
Please don't hesitate to contact us. You are the most welcomed!
Sincerely,
Chikako
Chikako Yamaki (DAISY Consortium)
chikakok-tky at umin.ac.jp
1 November 2005
Draft
Program
of the Second Global Forum on Disability
in the Information Society,
15th and 18th November 2005, Tunis, Tunisia
November 15, 2005, 09:00 - 13:00,
Amilcar, Kram PalExpo, Tunis, Tunisia
November 18, 2005, 09:00 - 13:00,
Amilcar, Kram PalExpo, Tunis, Tunisia
Event description
The DAISY Consortium organized the first Global forum on Disability in the
Information Society as part of the summit events during the first phase of
the World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva in December 2003.
The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society is to be
held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005.
This event will be an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of ICT and
disability. Persons with disabilities will also get to know about different
ICT programs, which is available to others. Only if equal participation is
available and guaranteed also to persons with disabilities, ICT will be a
future resource for all. Disability awareness must be included in all ICT
programs, through its development, to the design stage, into its
implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
The 2nd Global Forum will be facilitated jointly by the DAISY Consortium and
the Association BASMA pour la Promotion de l’Emploi des Handicapees, as a
part of the parallel events of the WSIS in Tunis.
The objectives of the Forum are to:
l Promote accessible information and communication worldwide,
l Share the knowledge of best practices for ICT, and
l Establish a global link to implement, monitor and evaluate ICT for
further development of the outcome of WSIS.
The forum will be organized as follows:
15 November 2005
Day 1
09:00-09:40
Opening:
The GFD is to be opened by the First Lady of Tunisia
(to be confirmed)
09:40-09:45 Break
09:45-09:55
Keynote address:
Andre Van Deventer, South Africa
World Federation of the Deafblind.
09:55-13:00
Session 1:
ICT Best Practice Showcase
Moderators:
Judy Brewer, USA, (WAI/W3C)
Souad Lamine, Tunisia, (BASMA)
- Access to information on the Internet
l Yvonne Grandbois, Switzerland
Title will be announced
World Health Organization Library
l Jim Fruchterman, USA
Overcoming Barriers to Building a Global Library for People with Print
Disabilities
Benetech
l Jun Ishikawa, Japan
Development of Screen Readers and Machine Understandability of Software
University of Shizuoka
- Mobile phone technology
l Wainaina Mungai, Kenya
Free SMS for the Deaf
Oneworld International
l Kajsa Ritzen Frisell & Johnny Kristensen, Sweden
The 3G Pocket Interpreter
Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency
l Dipendra Manocha, India
Mobile Phone - a Multi-utility tool for the blind
National Association for the Blind
l Andre Van Deventer, South Africa
Deafblind persons calling friends
World Federation of the Deafblind
- Education and training
l Saida Agrebi, Tunisia
Title will be announced
ATM
l Maud Hedblom & Lotta Stegmar, Sweden,
IT-training for visually impaired persons
IRIS Hadar
- Employment and income generation
l Catherine Roy, Canada,
E-Collaboration for Capacity Building in the Community of Persons with
Disabilities of Quebec
W3Quebec
l Tim Pape, United Kingdom,
Web Accessibility and Social Enterprise
Shaw Trust, UK
- How users and survivors use ICT
l Kouhei Yamane, Japan
Participation in reinvention of safe and caring in Urakawa Town, a view of
psychiatry users group, Bethel's House
Urakawa Bethel’s House
- Inclusion of indigenous people with disabilities
l Malia Nobrega, Hawaii
Making our voices heard
University of Hawaii
- Government partnership
l Wantanee Panthachart, Thailand
The movement of ICT Accessibility in Thailand
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
- Conventions and Regional Initiatives
l Sheikha Hissa, Qatar
Presentation of the Arab Decade of persons with disabilities, (to be
confirmed)
l Fadila Lagadien, South Africa
Presentation of the African Decade of persons with disabilities, (to be
confirmed)
Disabled People South Africa
l Kicki Nordstrom, Sweden
Presentation of the UN Convention on the rights of persons with
disabilities, Copyrights and disability
The World Blind Union
l Linda Misek-Falkoff, USA
Presentation of the Matrix RESPECT”
13:00:
Cocktail
14:00:
Visit to BASMA Initiatives: e-Services, Call Centre, Electronic Shopping
Centre in Ariana.
Day 2
18 November 2005
9:00-10:00
Session 2:
Disaster Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities
Moderator:
Hiroshi Kawamura, Japan,
National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities
l Markku Hakkinen, USA
Accessible ICT for Disaster Preparedness and Warning
Human-centered Design of Standards and Technology for Effective
Communication and DAISY Consortium
l Houlin Zhao, China
Overview of the ongoing ITU initiatives for disaster prevention
ITU
l Stephen Shore, USA
Preparing persons with autism and those who support them for times of
disaster: The past with a look to the future
US Autism Community
l Open discussion
10:00-11:30
Session 3:
International Disability Alliance (IDA) panel discussion on equal
partnership in ICT development
Moderators:
Ms. Raja Ismail, Tunisia (BASMA)
George Kerscher, USA (DAISY Consortium)
Panelists:
u Khalfan H. Khalfan Al-Salmany (Disabled Peoples' International)
u Betty Dion (Rehabilitation International)
u Kicki Nordstrom (The World Blind Union)
u Antti Raike (World Federation of the Deaf)
u Andre Van Deventer (World Federation of the Deafblind)
u Sylvia Caras (World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry)
u Inclusion International (presenter is to be announced)
u International Federation of Hard of Hearing People (presenter is to be
announced)
11:30-12:00
Break and press conference
12:00-12:45
Session 4:
Adoption of the Tunis Declaration
Co-Chairs:
Imed Eddine Chaker, Tunisia, (UNAT)
Fadila Lagadien, South Africa, (Disabled People South Africa) (to be
confirmed)
l Presentation of the draft declaration:
Monthian Buntan, Thailand, Thailand Association of the Blind
12:45-13:00
Closing:
l Khedija Hammouda Ghariani, Tunisia
Secretary of State for Computer Science, Internet and Free open Source
Software
13:00: Cocktail
14:00:
Visit to the Computer Centre for People with Disabilities, in El Menzah.
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