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

Access Documentation Here (login required)

Interested in contributing to this track or accessing working documents?

Please contact us at virtualworlds@itu.int to request access to the SharePoint site and join the Track.

8 July 2025

Session on Leaving No One Behind in the Citiverse

Co-organizers: ITU and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Place: Geneva, Switzerland