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Journalist with 18 years of experience in television and online media. Now Mr. Dio is The Head of Video at kumparan.com. As The Head of Video, Mr. Dio manages video news production and staff to ensure the accurate, timely delivery of news. In the last two years, Mr. Dio has provided a lot of mobile journalism training for students, NGOs, and citizen journalists. Two years ago he made a special mojo class for people with disabilities. He does this so that they also have the same opportunity to create their own content, without having to rely on conventional media.

Mrs. Mariam F. Barata is currently as Director of Application Informatics in ICT Ministry of the Republic of Indonesia

Postgraduate Researcher at Queensland University of Technology Pursue supervised applied research on an approved communications-related topic that are Social Media and Government Public Relations. Currently the Head of Subdivision for Public Relation in the Ministry of State Secretariat of Republic of Indonesia, Building and sustaining good relationships between The President/Vice President/Ministry of State Secretariat of Republic of Indonesia and its stakeholders through planned publicity campaigns and PR activities using a wide range of media.

Disability practitioner with 5 years of experience in empowerment and social inclusion. Graduated from University of Birmingham, UK, taking a Master in Policy into Practice with thesis themed disability employment. Assisted Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) in 2017 to draft Government Regulation Number 70 of 2019, Disability Masterplan, and to monitor National Action Plan for Human Rights. Completed ILO’s certified training as facilitator for Disability Equality Training (DET) in Turin, Italy, and has pioneered DET for government officials and companies. Currently, a researcher at the Ministry of Villages writing policy brief of disability inclusion in the village and managing the Smart Village project. Besides work, initiated a social startup named Inclusive Indonesia Connection (Konekin) focusing on disability empowerment.

Andrea C. Darmawan or Dea is currently a freshman student at the University of Mary Washington and she is planning to Major in Political Science. Dea was born premature which caused her retina wrinkles called RoP (Retinopathy of Prematurity). At age five, Andrea left Indonesia with her family and started her basic education from Kindergarten in Virginia, United States. The movie “Sejauh ku Melangkah” or “How far I’ll go” describes the life of Andrea, who since the age of 5 had to leave Indonesia, because she had to follow her parents moved to the US. The film also portrays daily life and educational activities undertaken by Andrea and her friend Indri Alifia Syalsabila.Technology is essential to Andrea for doing well in school. She uses a laptop with JAWS and Word to complete assignments, and the Kindle app on her phone for reading books anywhere and anytime she can. Dea also uses a tool called braille display which can connect to the phone via Bluetooth, and that allows her to read everything on her phone in braille.She thinks digital literacy is very important for being competitive in the workplace. Dea did twice summer internship with delegates office, 2018 with Virginia delegates and 2019 with district delegates; and she had to learn how to use excel to organize information; That was a challenge but once she learned it, she knew how to efficiently use it.