Second Meeting of the Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD)
16 November 2009, 14.00-15.30, Room 6,
Alexandrina Sharm el Sheikh International Congress Center
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt

Objectives
The Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability will facilitate interaction between relevant bodies, and ensure that ICT accessibility is included in the key debates around Internet Governance in order to build a future where all sectors of the global community have equal access to the Information Society. We are convinced that the entire community can benefit from an "accessible ICT world", as people can be permanently or temporarily disabled due to personal, environmental (e.g., a phone call in a noisy environment) or cultural (e.g., spoken language diversity) conditions.

One of the most important goals for this second face-to-face meeting of the DCAD is to finalize the MESSAGE to be presented to the Main Session on Access and Diversity at the IGF meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh and to set up the future activities of this Dynamic Coalition.

Agenda
Moderator: Andrea Saks (DCAD Coordinator)

1. Introduction
2. Approval of the Agenda
3. Tour de Table
4. Draft MESSAGE from the DCAD to be addressed to the Main session on Access and Diversity, Tuesday 17 November 2009 (Room: The Hall: Summit, 09:30 – 12:00)
5. Work Plan: 2009 and 2010
6. Feedback from IGF participants on accessibility measures taken at this IGF meeting
7. Next Steps and future activities
8. Any Other Business

Relevant documents for the meeting:

• Draft MESSAGE to be addressed to the Main session on Access and Diversity on the 17 November 2009
• MESSAGE delivered at the IGF, Main Session on Access and Diversity, Tuesday 17 November 2009, IGF, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - Final version
• The webcast of the session can be followed at: http://www.un.org/webcast/igf/ondemand.asp?mediaID=pl091117am1
• Work Plan 2009
• Meeting Report of the 2nd DCAD meeting

DCAD related events:

• "Global Internet access for persons with disabilities", (Organized by ITU and EBU)
  16 November 2009
• "Best practices for an Accessible Web", (Organized by ITU)
  17 November 2009

Past Activities

• First DCAD meeting: 6 December 2008, Hyderabad, India
  • Meeting Report
• ITU Workshop at 3rd IGF Meeting: 4 December 2008, Hyderabad, India
  Including Accessibility and Human Factors in the Universalization of the Internet - How to reach persons with disabilities, the 10% of the next billion
  • Workshop Report