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Accessible Americas III: Information and Communication for ALL

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Accessible Americas 2015

Accessible Americas 2014

Accessible Americas ll Accessible Americas (2014)

ABOUT

The event will focuses on the importance of promoting accessibility policies; motivate policymakers of these policies, regulators and industries; and encourage all the stakeholders concerned to work together with the PCD for the expansion and inclusion of accessibility in all processes: legal framework; public access to ICT; mobile communications; television and video programming accessibility; accessibility of the web, mobile, and public procurement of accessible ICTs. In order to contribute to the development of policies and implementation strategies of ICTs accessibility in the Americas region, the ITU will offer participants a training program to improve and reinforce their knowledge on this subject.

Who should attend?

The event aims at attracting active participants from the following segments in the Americas Region: Academia Civil Society Policy Makers Industry Content, Applicatives and Devices developers

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PURPOSE

Encourage Governments, industry, Academy and other stakeholders to promote ICT accessibility in order to create fair and equal opportunities for PwD and support a regional development agenda by treating ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities as a cross-cutting development issue.

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