Track 3 – Digital Inclusion and Accessibility
This track focuses explicitly on digital inclusion and accessibility in the citiverse and virtual worlds. The creation of new digital brings a range of accessibility question in terms of digital skills, visual impairment and neuro-divergence that needs to be addressed.
Meet the Leader of the Digital Inclusion and Accessibility Track

Pilar Orero
Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Meet the Experts
- Jon Black, CEO, Blackbot
- Paola Cecchi Dimeglio, Faculty Chair ELRIWMA, Harvard University
- Carlos Duarte, Associate Professor, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
- Puneet Jain, Doctoral Candidate (PhD Student), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and Zurich University of Arts, Switzerland
- Jie Huang, PhD candidate, Research Assistant, Smart City Research Centre, Renmin University of China
- Chris Hugues, Head of School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University
- Anna Matamala, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Sarah Anne McDonagh, Postdoctoral researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Estel·la Oncins, Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Fernanda Rocha, Chief Futures Officer, Blackbot
- Yong Jick Lee, Managing director, Korea Center for Accessible ICT
- Krzysztof Krejtz, Professor, SWPS University
- Victor Martínez, Head of General Coordination of International Affairs, Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT)
- Alma Cedillo, Deputy Director of Accessibility, Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT)
- Ileana Gama, Director of Information and Accessibility, Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT)
- Alessandro Pollini, Associate Professor, International Telematic University UniNettuno
- Daniel Hark Sohn, CEO of SCE Korea, Inc
- Hlekiwe Kachali, Senior Technology Advisor, UNICEF
- Gaspard Datondji, Digital Governance Specialist, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Benin
- Carrie Chow, Accessibility Evangelist, Atos
- Haris Shekeris, R&D Project Manager, Catalink Limited
Collaboration and Access
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