[Governance] WEBCAST TODAY: ITU-D Webinar on Digital Accessibility during COVID-19

[Joly MacFie]

Good to see ITU-D tackling accessibility. Speakers include a couple of IGF
DCAD <https://igf-dcad.org/> mainstays

ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday 24 June 2020, at 11:00-12:00 UTC ITU-D
Study Groups will host a webinar 'Digital accessibility during COVID 19'.
COVID-19 has emphasized the need to intensify all activities related to
digital/ICT accessibility as a means to ensure digital in"

[image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/itu-d>On *Wednesday
24 June 2020*, at *11:00-12:00 UTC* *ITU-D Study Groups
<https://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-D/CDS/sg/index.asp>* will host a webinar
'*Digital
accessibility during COVID 19
<https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Study-Groups/2018-2021/Pages/meetings/webinar-Q7-1-june24.aspx>*'.
COVID-19 has emphasized the need to intensify all activities related to
digital/ICT accessibility as a means to ensure digital inclusion of all
people, including those with disabilities. *ITU Study Group Q7/1
<https://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-D/CDS/sg/rgqlist.asp?lg=1&sp=2014&rgq=D14-SG01-RGQ07.1&stg=1>*
deems it necessary to discuss the impact of unprecedented global pandemic,
in the context of the Q7/1 mandate related to ICT accessibility which has
risen as imperative to guarantee inclusive societies in the digital world.

*OPENING REMARKS*
*Doreen Bogdan Martin*, Director of the Telecommunication Development
Bureau , International Telecommunication Union

*SPEAKERS*
*Daniela Bas*, Director Division for Inclusive Social Development, United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
*Inmaculada Placencia- Porrero*, Senior Expert, Disability and Inclusion,
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
*Lidia Best*, Chair, National Association of Deafened People (NADP) of the
United Kingdom
*Axel Leblois*, President and Executive Director of the Global Initiative
for Inclusive ICTs – G3ict

*MODERATOR*
*Amela Odobasic*, Rapporteur of Q7/1

*LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/itu-d
<http://livestream.com/internetsociety/itu-d> (open captions)*

*PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/2BuSutp <https://bit.ly/2BuSutp> (TIES
account required) (closed captions)*

*REAL TIME TEXT http://streamtext.net/player?event=ITU-D
<http://streamtext.net/player?event=ITU-D>*

*TWITTER @ITU #accessibility <https://bit.ly/2Yn7Hps>*

*SIMULCASTS*
*https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>*
*https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>*

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