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Biographies |
Almaz Abekov
Manager, DIM TV Ltd. Kyrgyzstan
Radio engineer – designer – technologist (Diploma).
Mr. Abekov Almaz has an experience in teaching of
Physics at secondary school, took a position of
consultant on ERP systems (SAP) and
business-consultant on automation and optimization
of business-projects. Carried out joint projects on
telecommunication nets construction in Nepal and
Azerbaijan. Mr. Abekov Almaz is an expert in control
automation and development of corporative computer
nets. He took participation in caring out of
projects on divided state informational systems
automation focused at more than 10 000 (ten
thousand) users. He worked as a technical director
of a large GSM Company-Operator. Mr. Abekov Almaz is
competent and has experience in telecommunication
sphere. He is a certified auditor of management
systems ISO 9001 quality.
Mr. Abekov Almaz is an author of a range of
interactive training programs for computer users,
business-consulting issues author and a book author
named “Digital laws in informational age”. The book
is about possibilities of informational systems for
the purpose of collision exclusion during
development of laws in draft and for the purpose of
easy and intelligible access securing for citizens
without necessity of getting legal education.
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Fernando H.F. Botelho
Director of Product Development, Literacy Bridge, Brazil
Fernando Botelho is an international consultant who
manages projects in the areas of trade development,
poverty reduction, technology, and disability. He
specializes in tools and strategies that are
inherently scalable; in his own words "The only
solutions that matter, given the enormous challenges
humanity faces, are those that can be scaled.”
Fernando's experience includes managing the
Visionaris Award, a partnership between Ashoka and
UBS AG, in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Before
coming to UBS Philanthropy Services in Zurich,
Fernando worked for the International Trade Centre
UNCTAD/WTO, an agency of the United Nations in
Geneva. At ITC, Fernando led the development of the
first methodology for the integration of
professionals with disabilities in the services
export sector. Before joining ITC, Fernando was
Director of Technology at a New York NGO where he
led the development of eSight.org, a groundbreaking
online community for the professional advancement of
people with disabilities.
Fernando has published and has been interviewed on
trade, open source software, public policy, and
disability topics. He has degrees from Georgetown
University and Cornell University.
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Abdoulaye Dembele
(SOTELMA, Focal point between ITU-D, ITU-T and the JCA-AHF for persons with disabilities, Vice Rapporteur for ITU-D Q.20/1)
Nationalité : Malienne, Marié et père de 4 enfants(
2 garçons et 2 filles)
Handicapé physique suite à la poliomyélite
Téléphone : +(223) 66 70 23 12
Email : abdoulaye.dembele@ties.itu.int
: dembelea@yahoo.fr
: dembelea@sotelma.ml
ACTIVITE AU SEIN DE LA SOTELMA SA (Société des
Télécommunications du Mali SA):
JE SUIS CHARGE DE FIXER LES TARIFS DES PRODUITS ET
SERVICES DE LA SOTELMA, DE L’EDITION ET SUIVI DU
GUIDE TARIFAIRE. JE SUIS CHARGE AUSSI D’APPLIQUER LA
POLITIQUE DE FIXATION DES PRIX DES PRODUITS ET
SERVICES DE LA SOTELMA. ET ENFIN, J’ELABORE UN PLAN
DE COMMUNICATION POUR LA DIFFUSION DES NOUVEAUX
TARIFS.
ACTIVITE AU SEIN DE L’UIT :
DE 2006 A NOS JOURS, JE PARTICIPE A TOUTES LES
REUNIONS DE COMMISSIONS D’ETUDE 1 ET 2
JE SUIS VICE RAPPORTEUR DES QUESTIONS 12-2/1 ET
20/1.
JE PARTICIPE REGULIEREMENT AUX REUNIONS DU GROUPE DE
RAPPORTEURS DES QUESTIONS : 20/1,
12-2/1,21/1,7-2/1,19-1,14-2/2, 22-2, 23/2
J’ai été désigner le point focal entre le BDT, le
TSB et la JCA des activités pour les personnes
handicapés
Au cour de la dernière réunion des commissions
d’études de l’UIT-D, le 11 septembre 2009
CONTRIBUTIONS
J’AI FAIT PLUSIEURS CONTRIBUTIONS POUR DIFFERENTES
QUESTIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS DISPONIBLES SUR LE SITE WEB
DE L’UIT).
J’AI PARICIPE AUX DIFFERENTES REUNIONS ET SEMINAIRES
DU GROUPE TAF ORGANISES PAR L’UIT-T : AU CAMEROUN,
EN AFRIQUE DU SUD, EN GUINEE ET AU MOZAMBIQUE.
J’AI CONTRIBUE ET PARTICIPE EN QUALITE D’ORATEUR AUX
ATELIERS DE L’UIT RELATIFS A L’ACCES DES PERSONNES
HANDICAPEES AUX TIC, A GENEVE (SUISSE) SETEMBRE
2006, Au CAIRE (EGYPTE) NOVEMBRE 2007 ET A LUSAKA
(ZAMBIE) JUILLET 2008.
J’AI PARTICIPE ACTIVEMENT A LA REUNION DU GROUPE DE
RAPPORTEURS DE LA QUESTION 14-2/2 AU MOIS DE JUILLET
2008 A TOKYO (JAPON )
ACTIVITE AU SEIN DES ASSOCIATIONS
MEMBRE FONDATEUR DES ASSOCIATIONS : COLLECTIF DES
HANDICAPES DIPLOMES, EMPLOI INTEGRATION DES
HANDICAPES POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT.
MEMBRE DE L’ASSOCIATION : CENTRE DE READAPTATION DES
HANDICAPES
MEMBRE FONDATEUR DE L’ASSOCIATION COLLECTIF DES
HANDICAPES DIPLOMES |
Dr. Alexandra Gaspari
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
Dr. Alexandra Gaspari currently works at ITU
Telecommunication Standardization Sector and
provides support for the accessibility coordination
project in ITU-T.
She also serves as Secretariat for the Joint
Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human
Factors as well as the Internet Governance Forum
Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability.
She holds a specialization doctorate in Political
Science with a focus on International Studies and
Human Rights, a master degree in Economics and
European Studies and a Degree in International
Relations. |
Claudio Giugliemma
Dominic Foundation, Switzerland
Claudio Giugliemma (Swiss citizen born in 1966) is
the founder, CTO and BoD Member of QualiLife Inc., a
Swiss company specialized in the development and
distribution of award-winning software solutions for
the Health Care market. (www.qualilife.com)
Claudio is a steering committee member of AIA
(Assistive Interoperability Alliance) as well as
member of the Voices For Innovation organization.
IIn 2005, Claudio founded and is the president of
Dominic Foundation, a Swiss Foundation with the goal
of providing fully accessible and sustainable
solutions for people as well as eHealth ICT support
and consultancy in emerging countries.
With over 20 years of experience in ICT development,
in the past twelve years he has focused with great
success on eHealth, and in particular on
accessibility and usability of ICT. In the year
2000, he founded QualiLife and as CEO for over 9
years he took the company to an international
leading position; the company main goal is to
provide a new generation of Unified Communication
solutions for the Health Care market that can make
all technologies fully accessible to anyone,
regardless of age, location, ability and knowledge.
This new approach has measurably increased the use
of ICT in several areas, including the home, the
work environment, in hospitals, retirement homes,
and so on.
Claudio iugliemma believes that technology should
serve the people, not the opposite; therefore he
started to work and strongly supports ITU activities
in 2008 since the WTISD-08 in Cairo. |
Dr. Mamoru Iwabuchi
Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mamoru Iwabuchi is an associate profeesor at RCAST
(Research Center for Advanced Science and
Technology) of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Dr.
Iwabuchi has been conducting applied research of two
types of technology to support people with
disabilities: (1) assistive technology (AT) and (2)
alternative and augmentative communication (AAC). He
has developed a PC-based multilingual communication
system, UNICORN (UNIversal Communicator Over Remote
Networks), and a mobile phone-based communication
tool, e-PP (Electronic Personal Profiler). He is
interested in development of AT using existing and
generally available mainstream technology, such as
PC and mobile phones. |
Axel Leblois
Executive Director, G3ict
Axel Leblois is the Founder and Executive Director
of G3ict – the Global Initiative for Inclusive
Technologies, an Advocacy Initiative of the United
Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development.
G3ict mission is to promote the implementation of
the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities in matters of accessible and assistive
ICTs in cooperation with industry, disabled persons
organizations, academia and the public sector.
Prior to creating G3ict, Axel Leblois spent over 20
years at the helm of information technology
companies in the United States including as CEO of
Computerworld Communications, CEO of IDC –
International Data Corporation, President & CEO of
Bull HN Worldwide Information Systems – Formerly
Honeywell Information Systems, CEO of ExecuTrain and
co-founder and President of W2i, the Wireless
Internet Institute. Axel Leblois is a Fellow of
UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training
and Research, and founding trustee of its North
American affiliate CIFAL Atlanta. Axel Leblois holds
an MBA from INSEAD and is a graduate of Sciences Po
Paris.
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Nourlan Mamyrov
Adviser on international cooperation, DIM TV Ltd. Kyrgyzstan
Education:
- Moscow State University, Laser Physics
- Karakol Institute of Business Administration, BA
- Kyrgyz National State University, Law
Work experience:
- 2008-present Adviser on international cooperation, DIMTV Ltd.
- 2002-2004 Adviser to Vice-Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic
- 1996-2007 ABB International Marketing, Representative
- 1994-1996 Price Waterhouse, Project Manager
- 1994 Ministry of Economy, Leading Expert
Other:
- Honorary consul of Sweden in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Vice-president, National Kyrgyz Equestrian Federation
Languages:
- Kyrgyz (native)
- Russian (fluent)
- English (fluent)
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Prof. Arun Mehta
President, Bidirectional Access Promotion Society (BAPSI), India
I obtained a B. Tech degree from IIT Delhi in 1975,
a Masters in Computer Sciences from the State
University of Stony Brook in two semesters
thereafter with the equivalent of a 4.0 GPA. I then
worked with Siemens AG in Erlangen, Germany for
three years, designing the electricals, electronics
and process control software for steel rolling
mills. In 1979, I returned to Mumbai, India, where I
designed and marketed hard wired and programmable
solutions for a large variety of industrial control
problems. In 1982 I joined the PhD program of the
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, as a fellow of the
Friedrich Ebert Foundation. My solution for a
time-optimal crane controller demonstrated a 5%
improvement in the throughput of a 35-ton grab crane
at Hamburg-Wedel, and was also presented at the
World Congress of the International Federation of
Automatic Control in Munich, 1987. I was awarded the
"Dr.-Ing" title the same year.
On returning to India, I became the Managing
Director of Indata Com Private Limited, in which
capacity I write software, teach, and provide
consultancy services. My clients include Tata Iron
and Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur, and the University of
Pittsburgh, for whom I developed software that helps
in the early detection of Alzheimers' disease. I
have written extensively for publications in India,
Pakistan, the US and Germany. In 2000, I started
radiophony.com together with Vickram Crishna, a .com
dedicated to audio-centric solutions to the problems
of the under-privileged. At the request of Professor
Stephen Hawking, I wrote eLocutor, free and open
source software that allows persons as severely
disabled as him to write and speak. I have taught
programming as a volunteer at the National
Association for the Blind, helping my students
become members of international development teams of
cutting edge software that will help improve the
lives of not just the blind.
Currently, my passion is software that might make it
easier for children with autism, cerebral palsy and
dyslexia to communicate, which is being made
available free of cost at skid.org.in and documented
at arpitblog.wordpress.com. This software received
the Manthan Award in 2008.
I have conducted three workshops, each a week long,
with autistic children and their care givers, to
find ways that persons with severe communication
disorders might learn to use the computer to
communicate. I mentor a few students at school and
college level with severe disabilities, helping them
with their computing problems, even writing special
software to make it easier for them to communicate.
From 1989 to 1991, I was President of the Indian
section of Amnesty International, and have since
been at the forefront of initiatives to improve
cyber rights and telecommunications policy, to allow
rapid spread of the benefits of information
technologies to all segments of society. I am part
of the ONI-Asia project, in which I am seeking to
make the monitoring of Internet filtering in India
sustainable.
I moderate several Internet discussion groups, most
notably india-gii@cpsr.org which brings together
experts from academia, government, industry and the
media to critically examine India's bumpy progress
along the information highway.
I am a professor and chairman of the computer
engineering department at JMIT, Radaur, an
engineering college in rural Haryana, 180km from
Delhi. I have taught Pascal, PL/1, Visual Basic,
Ruby, Perl, C and C++ programming, as well as web
technologies, including Ruby on Rails.
I have co-authored a book "Technology and
Competitiveness", which was published by Sage, and
compares the machine tool industries of Brazil and
India. In 2007, O'Reilly published "Beautiful Code",
in which the world's leading programmers, including
Brian Kernighan and Matz, contributed a chapter
each. In this Jolt-award winning book, I am proud
author of a chapter on eLocutor, entitled "When a
button is all that connects you to the world." |
Asenath Mpatwa
Senior Advisor, Regional Office for Africa, ITU-D/BDT
After five years with a development Bank in
Tanzania, I started my telecoms carrier with the
Tanzanian national operator where for 22 years, I
was responsible for various functions including
strategic & business planning, heading the
privatization of Tanzania Telecommunications company
Ltd. and as the last CEO before the company was
privatized in 2001. During this period, I played a
leading role in the restructuring and network
development for the telecommunication sector in
Tanzania. The restructuring process included
establishment of the regulatory agency, separation
of postal and telecommunication businesses and
divestiture of non-core activities from the
telecommunications company. Alongside these
activities, I was responsible for monitoring the
implementation of the largest telecoms development
project valued at USD 250 million in Tanzania. This
required extensive coordination with the seven
donors, suppliers and the government. I also served
in a number of Boards as a Director including the
first data communications company in the country.
In 2001, I joined the ITU-D as a Coordinator for
Africa region, a post I occupied until March 2007
when I was transferred to head the Special
Initiatives Unit. My primary responsibility there
was to raise awareness on policy and technical
issues and assist member states to provide ICT
access and services to persons with disabilities,
gender, youth & children, indigenous people and
people living in underserved/remote areas. In April
2009, I moved to the ITU Regional office for Africa
as a Senior Adviser.
I hold a Master of Arts from the University of Dar-es-salaam
and a Master of Science in Telecommunications from
the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Prof. Kenryu Nakamura
University of Tokyo, Japan
Kenryu Nakamura is a professor at RCAST (Research
Center for Advanced Science and Technology) of the
University of Tokyo, Japan. Prof. Nakamura has been
conducting applied research of two types of
technology to support people with disabilities: (1)
assistive technology (AT) and (2) alternative and
augmentative communication (AAC). He has also
created a database of e-AT (electronic- and
information technology-based assistive technology),
namely, AT2ED. He is currently interested in good
use of generally available mainstream technology,
such as PC and mobile phones, as a form of AT. |
Christophe Oulé
Director of «Centre de formation pour handicapés visuels
au Burkina Faso»
Christophe OULÉ est né en 1960 à Zaba, Province du
Nayala, BURKINA FASO.
Il est ingénieur en Génie Civil Option Bâtiment,
diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux
Publics de Yamoussoukro, CÔTE D’IVOIRE.
De 1985 à 1998, il a été Chef du Département
Exploitation d’une Société Pétrolière installée au
BURKINA FASO. Il avait en charge la conception et le
contrôle des constructions de stations services. Il
supervisait également les approvisionnements et la
gestion de la sécurité.
En 1998 il a créé une Entreprise de Construction
Bâtiment qu’il a géré jusqu’en 2003.
Suite à une infection des yeux, il a perdu la vue en
2003. En 2004, il a suivi un stage de réadaptation
d’adultes nouvellement devenus aveugles à l’Union
Nationale des Associations Burkinabè pour la
Promotion des Aveugles et Malvoyants (UN-ABPAM),
Ouagadougou. Durant l’année scolaire 2005/2006, il a
été enseignant suppléant dans une classe de
réadaptation d’enfants nouvellement devenus aveugles
ou malvoyants.
En 2007 il a suivi un stage de formation de
formateurs en Informatique Adaptée à la Déficience
Visuelle au siège de l’Association Valentin HAÜY
(AVH), Paris France avec un recyclage en 2008.
Depuis mars 2007, il est responsable de la Formation
en Informatique Adaptée à la déficience visuelle de
l’UN-ABPAM.
Il est le Secrétaire Général de l’UN-ABPAM depuis
octobre 2008.
Postal : 01 BP 5588 Ouagadougou 01, BURKINA FASO
Téléphone/fax professionnel : +226 50 34 33 86
Mobile : + 226 70 04 54 26
e-mail : formation@abpam.com ou
O.christobal@gmail.com |
Dr. Joyojeet Pal
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Joyojeet Pal is a research associate at the Center
for Information and Society and the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at the University
of Washington, Seattle. His work is primarily in the
use of technology in low-resource scenarios. He
heads a project at the University of Washington,
looking at the impacts of technology centers on
issues of employability for people with
disabilities. His team is currently examining the
role of technology within the larger ecosystem of
socio-economic opportunities for people with
disabilities in Guatemala, Ecuador, Venezuela,
Mexico, and El Salvador.
Joyojeet's past work has been in design ethnography
for children's technology use in schools and
computer centers in the developing world. As part of
this research, he has been involved in the
conceptualization of shared-use models of computer
use for children. Joyojeet is an US National Science
Foundation (NSF) Computing Innovation Fellow for
2009-2010. He received his doctorate in City and
Regional Planning from the University of California
at Berkeley. |
Andrea Saks
Convener, ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity on
Accessibility and Human Factors, JCA-AHF
She grew in a family of two deaf parents and
assisted them from an early age as their interface
with the hearing world: She as responsible making
doctors’ appointments, arranging guests’ visits and
other appointments by using the telephone which was
then inaccessible to her family without her.
Her father, the late Andrew Saks, the late Robert
Weitbrecht and James C. Marsters (who recently died
July 2009) were the first pioneers deaf themselves,
who created deaf telecommunications using surplus
teletypewriters and modems that spread throughout
the world. These devices were the precursors of
textphones and today’s real-time text messaging.
She took that role to the next level when she
relocated from the US to the UK in 1972 to promote
the use of textphones internationally. She worked
with the British Government Post Office (then the
regulator of UK telecommunications) and was granted
a license for connection of text telephones on the
regular telephone network. She was able to
successfully lobby the US FCC to allow the first
transatlantic textphone conversation over the voice
telephone network (1975).
Her first involvement with ITU standardization
activity started in 1991 and has ever since
increased in scope. Self-funded, she currently
attends many ITU-T study group and focus group
meetings promoting the inclusion of accessibility
functionality in systems being standardized by ITU,
such as multimedia conferencing, cable, IPTV and
NGN. After the recent creation of ITU-D Q20/1 on
accessibility matters by WTDC-06, she also started
attending that group and now performs as a bridge
between the two sectors on accessibility for persons
with disabilities
She has been a key person in the creation of all
accessibility events in ITU, and currently is the
convener of the recently formed joint coordination
activity on accessibility and human factors, as well
as the coordinator of the Internet Governance
Forum’s Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and
Disability.
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