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Grace Amberong, National Computer Center (NCC), Philippines
Earned masters degree in Technology
Management at the University of the
Philippines. Earned a Bachelor of
Science in Mathematics degree and
completed the academic requirements for
Master in Mathematics both at the
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila with
more than 20 years experience as an IT
Consultant/Subject Mater Expert handling
various projects with private and
government clients involving:
» Project Management,
» Website/Portal Development,
» Application Systems Development,
» Information Systems Strategic
Planning, and
» IT/ICT Curriculum Development/Training
Represented the Philippines in foreign
conferences and fora in the field of
information and communications
technology.
On May 2007 (up to present), chosen as
the Philippine Information Technology
Ambassador (ITA) to the Digital
Opportunity Forum (DOF) organized by
Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and
Promotion (KADO).
In October appointed as Lead Convenor
for Social Protection Support Initiative
Convergence (SPSI) Project joining
undertaken with the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA)
to facilitate coordinate “cross-agency”
collaboration for the four government
social service agencies, namely:
Department of Social Welfare and
Development, Department of Health,
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
and Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority.
From 2005 to 2009, spearheaded the
establishment of the Government
e-Services Portal integrating all
citizen-centric online frontline
services of government agencies.
Complementing the portal is the
establishment of the Government
e-Payment Gateway facility, an
internet-enabled payment portal that
makes available the payment services
from various channels through the use of
different delivery channels to include
credit cards, debit instructions and
mobile wallets.
Has been an IT Consultant to major
government computerization projects, the
Land Transportation Office
Computerization Project, the Land
Registration Authority Computerization
Project, to name a few.
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Mr. Wisit Atipakayoon, Advisor, ITU
Mr. Atipayakoon joined the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2005 as a Telecom/ICT Specialist in the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) based in the ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok. He is in charge of the Asia-Pacific regional initiatives and activities on ICT accessibility for Persons with Disabilities, rural communication development; emergency telecommunications, and cybersecurity.
Bringing with him many years of professional experience in Information and Communication Technology and project management, he is implementing a number of projects such as: Text-to-Speech development in Mongolia and Sri Lanka; ICTs for marginalized groups including Persons with Disabilities in Sri Lanka; technical standards for accessibility in Thailand; rural ICT policy advocacy, knowledge sharing and capacity building; Universal Service Obligation (USO) policy development in Thailand; rural/outer island communications in the Pacific, and etc.
Wisit has extensive exposure in ICT development especially in remote and rural areas in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in remote islands of the Pacific. His projects have set up a number of community information centres providing access to ICTs through various communication technologies and models for children, farmers, persons with disabilities and other under privileged people and communities.
Prior joining ITU, he worked for Lucent Technologies, Global Crossing, Asia Netcom, and SAS whereas he practised engineering and management in transmission network design and implementation, sub-sea cable networks, data mining and data warehousing, business process reengineering and continuity programme.
Wisit received his Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from King Mongkut Institute Technology of Ladkrabang in Bangkok, Thailand and is a Certified Project Management Professional.
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Mr. Riel Barey, Regulator, Department of Telecom-Policy
Regulation as Regulator, Ministry of
Posts and Telecommunications, Cambodia
My name is Riel Barey , I work at the Ministry of Posts and telecommunications of Cambodia (MPTC) in the department of Telecom-Policy Regulation as the follower for ITU-T Recom -mendation and statistical data given by service providers and also as a member of USO Committee in Cambodia focusing on Survey for the situation of rural telecommunication and as well as remote areas and occasionally as directly assistant to Director.
I used to join at Work Mission of the World Bank going to some provinces and rural areas for collecting data and inquiring about statistics and also studying about rural communications environment in Cambodia.
The Professional and Educational Background:
- I used to be the Chief Office of Customer Service Office from 1993 to 2002 and my responsibility is studying and demandforcasting Plan (growth/ expansion Outside Network) and providing Access of Telephone lines to Customers.
- Now I am the Deputy Director of the Department of the Telecom-Policy Regulation and I take the responsibilities for Standard Network, Type Approval of Telecom Equipment, USO and ITU Recommendation follower.
- I under graduated from The National School of Post and Telecommunication with the subject of International Technician of Radio- Telegraph in 1981.
- I graduated from University of Polytechnic Phnom Penh with the subject of Engineer of Electronic in 1987.
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Mr. Montian Buntan, Senator, Government of Kingdom of Thailand
Mr. Monthian Buntan, servant of the Blind and the Poorest, Born in 1965 in a remote village of Phrae Province (500 KMs north of Bangkok) Thailand, Monthian has been blind since birth. He received his primary, secondary and first university education in Thailand before earning his second bachelors at St. Olaf College and a Masters at University of Minnesota, USA. His experience and education help shaped and strengthen his belief that there is nothing wrong with his blindness and that the society has made too big deal out of it.
After serving as a university lecturer for eight years, Monthian left his stable teaching career behind and became a full time social activist in 2002. He has served in a number of positions within the organized blind movement in Thailand, currently in his second four-year term as president of Thailand Association of the Blind. His role in the World Blind Union began officially in 1996 as one of the blind youth committee member before elected to serve as WBU executive committee member in 2000.
He is proud to be a part of two major contributions: the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) from which the first disability-inclusive policy documents in the mainstream society at the international level were created and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) which is the first thematic international human rights law for PWDs and the first international human rights treaty of the twenty-first century. Monthian loves braille, but also strive to make ICTs accessible to all including blind people. His career has become even more complicated and more challenging since he became a senator of Thailand in 2008.
His most favorite slogan is "I've given up on giving up."
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Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura, President of the DAISY Consortium, Japan
Hiroshi Kawamura is the President of the DAISY Consortium . The DAISY Consortium envisions a world where people with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge, without delay or additional expense.
He contributed to the Section of Libraries for the Blind/International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) from 1990 through 1995 as the Chairman and founded the DAISY Consortium in collaboration with IFLA members.
For the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2003-2005), he was serving as Disability Caucus Focal Point to coordinate the Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis . He followed-up the WSIS by coordinating the international conferences on knowledge based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) of persons with disabilities in Phuket 2007 and 2009 in collaboration with Senator Buntan.
He developed an international close collaboration network of persons with disabilities including physical, cognitive, intellectual or psycho-social disabilities, a network of users, distributers and missionaries of DAISY. He has developed DAISY focal points in many developing countries as the Manager of the DAISY for All Project, 2003-2008, which includes the on-going HIV/AIDS resource manual development in accessible multimedia in 11 official languages in South Africa.
The DAISY Consortium received ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award 2008 in recognition of its work to share human knowledge for everybody including persons with disabilities, people with minority languages, indigenous people without written scripts, and those who are illiterate.
He received the Plaque of Honor given by HRH Princess Sirindhorn (2002), Culture of Sharing Award of the DAISY Consortium (2005), and Dr. Daton Forman Award of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (2008).
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Dr. Eun-Ju Kim, Head, ITU Regional office for Asia and the Pacific
Dr. Kim is currently Regional Director of ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific based in Bangkok, Thailand, representing ITU and responsible for some 40 Member States and about 70 Sector Members in this region.
Before she joined the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – a UN Special Agency for Telecommunications and ICTs – in 2000, she had served several posts such as Director for Regulatory Affairs at the ICO Global Communications based in London; Lecturer for Telecommunication Policies and Regulations at the London City University, and Senior Adviser to Ministers at the Ministry of Communications in the Republic of Korea.
She has been educated from the Seoul National University in R. O. Korea for the first Master Degree and the London City University in the United Kingdom for the second Master and Ph. Degrees.
Over 100 books or articles/papers have been published, translated or presented at numerous countries in the cross continents from Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific to Europe on professional areas such as: e.g.,
- telecommunication/ICT policy, legislation, governance and regulation,
- international relations and organizations through case studies of ITU, UNESCO, OECD and INTELSAT,
- telecommunication standardizations and its international organizations,
- ICT for empowerment of women,
- satellite communications,
- new emerging issues including e-commerce, cyber-laws and cyber-security, next generation networks and broadband, management of ICT resources, persons with disabilities and more,
in order to optimize digital opportunities through inclusive and sustainable development in the interdependent information society.
She has also organized, attended, chaired or represented at numerous national, sub-regional, regional and international meetings and conferences since 1988. To serve members better through mobilizing the resources based on public-private partnership (PPP), her recent emphasis has been to pursue result-oriented projects and partnerships with various UN Agencies, international, regional, sub-regional and national organizations and private industry in addition to the ITU Administrations in the Asia-Pacific.
She has been awarded by the governments of R. O. Korea and Mongolia with the ‘Excellency in Telecommunications’ Honorary Medal as well as ITU with the Medal of ‘Excellence in Performance’.
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Ms. Silvia Lavagnoli, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR),
Geneva, Switzerland
Silvia Lavagnoli is the Adviser on Human Rights and Disability for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). She has been with OHCHR since 2001 and has served as a human rights officer in Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Southern Sudan, Uganda and Haiti, and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a Degree in Law and a Master Degree in International Politics.
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Mr. Jagath Ratnayake, Assistant Director, Policy and International
Relations, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
Mr. Jagath Ratnayake holds a bachelors
degree in Arts with honours from
University of Peradeniya, specializing
in the field of Sociology. He obtained
his Masters degree in Sociology from the
University of Peradeniya , and completed
a course in telecom policy at the
University of Blekingy Sweden.
He works as an Assistant Director
(Policy) of the Telecommunications
Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka and
his work involves telecom policy issues,
research and development activities with
Universities & Research Institutions and
emergency telecommunications activities.
Currently he co-ordinates the (TRCSL) -
International Telecommunications Union
(ITU) assistance project programme on
“Building capacity for harnessing ICTs
for disempowered / marginalised
communities in Sri Lanka”.
Before joining TRCSL in 1998, he had
served different posts such as Senior
Community Relation Officer at the
Ministry of Housing, Construction and
Public Utilities, in Sri Lanka
(1993-1998), Junior Sociologist, Kampsax
Kruger and Cowi Consult institutions
under the project programmes conducted
the Danish International Development
Agency (DANIDA) in Sri Lanka
(1991-1993). Research Associate at the
Institute of Fundamental Studies in Sri
Lanka (1989). |
Dr. Shi Ping, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ping SHI received her M.Eng. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2006 and Ph.D degree from Loughbourgh University, U.K., in 2009 in Biomedical Engineering and Electronic& Electrical Engineering, respectively. She is now on a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Med-X Research Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests include physiological measurement techniques, and functional electrical stimulation (FES). |
Ms. Wu Yinghua, Senior Engineer of China Academy of Telecom Research (CATR), China
I work in China Academy of Telecom. Research and have been in charge of researching and developing
standards in the field of IP/MPLS, CNGI and VPN. Since 2005, I have participated several information
accessibility projects which aimed to build and improve accessible information environment in china,
and I was responsible for several information accessibility standards, including the first china web
accessibility standard which is issued in 2008 by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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Ms. Yu Mei Qin (Ms. Maggie Qi), IBM, China
Qin Yumei joined IBM in Feb. 2001. She's now the Manager of IBM China Human Ability & Accessibility Center (CHAAC). As the founder and manager of CHAAC, she has been in charge of business development, research & development, marketing & communications, standards & regulations development in the area of accessibility since Feb. 2005.
She’s been taking an active role in increasing the public awareness of accessibility, by way of making public lectures, publishing articles and papers, running pilot projects, co-hosting the annual China Accessibility Forum, etc.
She is one of the authors of China Web Accessibility Guidelines (YDT 1761-2008), which was published by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, People’s Republic of China, in 2008. She led IBM team to deliver the web accessibility project for Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, Expo 2010 Shanghai China, China Disabled Persons’ Federation, etc.
In July 2006, she won the IBM Global Innovation Award.
Before she joined CHAAC, Qin Yumei had been working for University Relations for 4.5 years. Her job responsibility included maintaining the relationship with Ministry of Education (MOE), managing overall university program at 20 universities in North and Southwest China, managing Project Management Curriculum Program at 50+ universities in China, as well as marketing and publicity of the whole University Relations Department.
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