#WSIS2020 Session 141 – ICTs and Accessibility: Leaving Nobody Behind in the age of Smart Cities and Advances in Technology Andrea Saks @ITU Masahito Kawamori @KeioGlobal @best_lidia Axel Leblois @G3ict Tom Pey #Waymap
On Friday 17 July 2020 at 11:00-12:00 UTC the ITU Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors (JCA-AHF) hosts a WSIS Forum 2020 thematic workshop ‘ICTs and Accessibility: Leaving Nobody Behind in the age of Smart Cities and Advances in Technology‘. This session will examine the most prevalent forms of digital exclusion, how they affect persons with disabilities of all ages and the solutions that can and should be implemented as part of Smart Cities initiatives. This webcast is facilitated by the Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest group (A11ySIG).
SPEAKERS
Andrea Saks, JCA-AHF Chairman; G3ict, USA
Lidia Best, JCA-AHF Co-Vice Chairman; NADP, UK; G3ict
Masahito Kawamori, ITU-T Q26/16 Rapporteur; Keio University, Japan
Tom Pey, Co-Founder, Waymap
Axel Leblois, President, The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs, G3ict, USA
LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2020-141 (open captions)
PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/2DI25hx
REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=ITU-WSIS
TWITTER: #WSIS2020 #accessibility #JCAAHF
SIMULCASTS
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
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