"A Disability Inclusive Development Agenda”
ITU Proposal for an ICT Sector Consultation
On 23 September 2013 the global community will meet in New York at the High-level meeting of the General Assembly on Disability and Development to identify the actions that need to be initiated to strengthen efforts to ensure accessibility for and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of development efforts.
To support the conduction of this event, ITU, coordinated an ICT Sector Consultation in order to gather the views and contributions of the ICT sector and to ensure that they feed into the preparatory process for the HLDMM. The main question is why information and communication technologies (ICTs) - accessibility is a key enabler for persons with disabilities?"
The main objective is to increase the body of knowledge available on the use of ICTs to promote disability-inclusive development, using an inclusive process which mobilizes and engages all relevant stakeholders of the ICT sector (including governments, private sector, organizations of persons with disabilities and civil society) and to raise awareness on the unique potential that ICTs have to promote the social and economic development of persons with disabilities with the view to set the issue on the agenda of the HLMDD.
The consultation mixed physical discussions in the context of existing events, with online consultation using ITU technical platforms. Its key component is an online activity to gather inputs and recommendations from the ICT community. This activity combines the use of online surveys to members of the ICT sector. The link to access to the questionnaire is http://www.itu.int/en/action/accessibility/Pages/hlmdd_form.aspx
The consultation will close on 10 June 2013. The results of this consultation will be submitted for the consideration of the heads of state and other high level participants that will gather at the meeting. For further information, please visit the following link: http://www.itu.int/en/action/accessibility/Pages/hlmdd2013.aspx
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