SV: SV: [governance] Main sessions @ IGF

[Kicki Nordström]

Dear David,

Thanks for your recognition of this underserved area of ICT! One of the most painful situations is that all extra software applications or adaptations persons with disabilities need for operate a normal computer, is many more times costly  to the computer as such. This exclude many persons with disabilities totally from ICT service and possibilities. 

The ironic situation is that those who would need this most for communication and service, can not afford it and many can not even reach to an internet coffee due to an inaccessibility environment!  

We need your support!

All the best
Kicki


Kicki Nordström
World Blind Union (WBU)
Immediate Past  President
Chair, WBU Working Group on UN Issues
c/o SRF 
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Från: David Goldstein [mailto:goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au] 
Skickat: den 18 oktober 2006 02:18
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Ämne: Re: SV: [governance] Main sessions @ IGF

Hi Kicki and everyone,

This is something I raised in a forum at the Wellington ICANN meeting and something I've been conscious of for a while... and had been thinking of commenting on. The digital divide is not just about north and south, rich and poor, but also about the disabled and abled-bodied. In my other life I work for a charity that deals with people who are blind and vision impaired, and deafblind, and the access of our clients to the online world is quite restricted.

Thanks for raising the issue Kicki, as it's a very important one, and a very ignored one.

Cheers
David

Don't forget to check out http://technewsreview.com.au/ for updates and recent internet/technology news.

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From: Kicki Nordström <kino at iris.se>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org>; Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 October, 2006 8:27:00 AM
Subject: SV: [governance] Main sessions @ IGF


Dear all,

I agree on this, but need to add that 650 Millions of Persons with disabilities also belong to the target group  of need of ICT! For many of us, communication needs are the only disabling conditions, for example for blind, deafblind or deaf people! 

Warm regards
Kicki


Kicki Nordström
World Blind Union (WBU)
Immediate Past  President
Chair, WBU Working Group on UN Issues
c/o SRF
122 88 Enskede
Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)8 399 000
Fax: +46 (0)8 725 99 20
Cell: +46 (0)70 766 18 19
E-mail: kino at iris.se


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Från: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu.org] 
Skickat: den 17 oktober 2006 18:07
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Adam Peake
Ämne: [governance] Main sessions @ IGF

Adam Peake ha scritto:
> Arranging panelists for the main sessions is ongoing.  Finding a 
> balance from among people known to be attending is not easy. (Has to 
> be from people known to be going, the secretariat has no cash to bring 
> anyone.)

I thought the question might be of interest to everyone: how are these sessions organized? A set of panelists picked by the AG, and then open discussion from the floor? Will there be a Chair's summary of the session? Should positions be in writing? Presented in advance?

How does the average participant raise his/her own issues and gets them addressed, or at least reflected in the final summary of the IGF? From the floor? Or by finding a panelist that can mention them? Or - to be practical ;) - by lobbying the Secretariat?

Sorry for the abundance of ?'s, I know this is a work in progress... but I'd hate to have been waiting for one year, come to Athens with a couple of "urgent issues that are not being dealt with elsewhere", and then fail to get them at least recorded in the proceedings, if not discussed. 
I think that civil society should at least have a way to flag issues for subsequent work in "dynamic coalitions".
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