{"id":2692,"date":"2024-02-06T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=2692"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:57:54","slug":"dt-bio-pilar-orero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/dt-bio-pilar-orero\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilar Orero"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pilar Orero
<\/strong>FG-MV WG8 Co-Chair; Professor, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n
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Professor Pilar Orero, PhD (UMIST, UK), works at Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (Spain) in the TransMedia Catalonia Lab. She has written and edited many books, near 100 academic papers and almost the same number of book chapters –all on Media Accessibility. Leader and participant of numerous EU funded research projects focusing on media accessibility. She works in standardisation and participates in the UN ITU IRG-AVA – Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility. She has been working on Immersive Accessibility for the past 6 years first in a project called ImAc<\/a>, which results are now further developed in TRACTION<\/a>, MEDIAVERSE<\/a>, MILE<\/a>, and GREENSCENT<\/a>. She led until December 2022 the EU network LEADME<\/a> on Media Accessibility. She was the Co-Chair of Study Group on Accessibility and Inclusion in the ITU Metaverse Focus Group<\/a>, and she is leading the Digital Inclusion and Accessibility track of the ITU Virtual Worlds<\/a>. She is now working on AI and accessibility in the three funded projects MOSAIC<\/a>, ALFIE<\/a>, and SPICE.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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