[Governance] WEBCAST TODAY: WSIS 2021 Thematic Workshop 300: Accelerating Adaptable Aging Services to Promote the Comprehensive Development of Information Accessibility

[Joly MacFie]

The internet Society of China, by virtue of being a government entity, is
not affiliated with the Internet Society. Nevertheless they do seem to like
to have an ISOC speaker on their WSIS panels. In 2019 it was Jane Coffin
<https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/1116332659662258176>. Today it
is Gunela Astbrink of the Accessibility SIG. With only about a quarter of
China's 250+ million seniors currently online, a major effort is under way
to improve their access to services.

ISOC Live posted: "Today, Wednesday April 7 2021, at the World Summit on
the Information Society Forum 2021 (WSIS 2021) the Internet Society of
China (ISC) hosts a thematic workshop 'Accelerating Adaptable Aging
Services to Promote the Comprehensive Development of Informati"

[image: livestream]
<https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/wsis2021-300.png>Today,
*Wednesday
April 7 2021*, at the *World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2021*
<https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2021/> (WSIS 2021) the *Internet
Society of China <https://www.isc.org.cn/english/>* (ISC) hosts a thematic
workshop '*Accelerating Adaptable Aging Services to Promote the
Comprehensive Development of Information Accessibility
<https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2021/Agenda/Session/300>*'.
Representatives from multistakeholder community will be invited to share
their insight on the issue related to aging services and construction of an
inclusive information society.

*SESSION 300 - 10:00- 11:00 UTC*

*PANEL*
Mr. *Houlin Zhao*, Secretary-General, ITU
Mr. *Lv Shiming*, Vice-Chairman China, Disabled Persons’ Federation
Mr. *Shao Daoxi*n, Deputy Director General, Information and Communication
Administration Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China
(MIIT)
Mr. *He Guili*, Vice President & Deputy Secretary-General, Internet Society
of China (ISC)
Ms. *Wang Zhiqin,* Vice President, China Academy of Information and
Communications Technology (CAICT)
Prof. *Shahbaz Khan,* Director and Representative, UNESCO Beijing Cluster
Office
Ms. *Gunela Astbrink*, Vice President, Internet Society Accessibility
Special Interest Group, ISOC
Ms. *Selina Yuan*, Vice president, Ali Group
Prof. *Su Wei*, Dean, Research Center of Information Accessibility, Lanzhou
University
Ms. *Enya Chen*, General Manager, Customer Research & User Experience
Design Center, Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited
Mr. *James Lu*, Senior Manager, Device Software Product Marketing, Huawei
Consumer Business Group

*MODERATOR*
Ms. *Pei Wei*, Deputy Secretary-General, Internet Society of China (ISC)

*LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2021-300
<http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2021-300>*

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*ARCHIVE*
*https://archive.org/details/wsis2021-300
<https://archive.org/details/wsis2021-300>*

*LINK*
*China News How to solve the digital problem of the elderly?
<https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2021-03-03-%0A---how-to-solve-the-digital-problem-of-the-elderly-%0A--.HymJeLTnzO.html>*

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