Session
Round Table - 90 Min
This round table DCAD Session to review our work for 2023 including a discussion of the Governance Documents, our contributions to the Global Digital Compact, and our efforts to improve the accessibility of online events and how to ensure that persons with disabilities, no matter where they live, are included in the inner circle of discussions that the leadership panel and the IGF MAG.
Today only about 3% of the Internet is accessible to people with disabilities, despite the 1.3 billion people globally who live with a disability. In particular, only a small number of online services are accessible to persons with disabilities. We will discuss different capacity-building activities, plans, and possible research initiatives that DCAD can contribute to or organize during the coming year
Dr. Muhammad Shabbir, DCAD Co-coordinator, Civil Society, Asia Pacific
Judith Hellerstein, DCAD Co-Coordinator, Civil Society, WEOG
Dr. Muhammad Shabbir, DCAD Co-coordinator, Civil Society, Asia Pacific
Lidia Best, President, European Federation of Hard of Hearing People, Civil Society, WEOG
Swaran Ravindra, Planning and Resource Officer, Accessibility Standing Group,
Academic, Asia Pacific
Vivien Maidaborn, the CEO of .nz, Technical Community, Asia Pacific
Muhammad Akram, President - Asia Pacific Federation of the Hard of Hearing and Deafened (APFHD), Civil Society, Asia Pacific
Masahito Kawamori, Technical Comunity, Asia Pacific
Yasunobu Ishii, Asia Pacific
Judith Hellerstein
Deirdre Williams
Judith Hellerstein