[DCAD] DCAD session at the IGF

[Deirdre Williams]

Sounds good :-)

On Thu, 25 May 2023, 13:23 Judith Hellerstein, <judith at jhellerstein.com>
wrote:

> HI De
>
> I chose the Round table format as I wanted it to be interactive, so there
> will be plenty of time to hear from our members of projects and topics they
> want to be covered. Since the IGF is a hybrid meeting, and we will have an
> onsite and online moderators, so we can take contributions and speakers
> from everyone.  Looking forward to your ideas.  All IGFs sessions have
> human captioning and at DCAD we will also be providing International sign
> language for our session.  I also mentioned in our session information that
> we will be reading comments from the Chat into the record to ensure that
> all members, including those with cognitive disabilities, can take an
> active role in our session.
>
> Best
>
> Judith Hellerstein
>
> DCAD Co-Coordinator
>
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> On 5/25/23 1:15 PM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
>
> Dear DCAD,
> Judith wrote to me this morning explaining the urgency to submit a request
> for the DCAD session at the IGF. I've copied that part of her message
> below, together with my reply. Considering our current initiative to
> breathe new life into DCAD, I thought it might be a good idea to move this
> part of the discussion onto a wider stage as a way of inviting members to
> think about what they want from DCAD.
>
> "As a DC we are guaranteed a session but had not realized that we have to
> apply before the deadline, which was yesterday, to get our session. I wrote
> to Celine, the new assistant to DC's and asked her if we had to submit
> before the deadline and she said we did so I quickly put something
> together.  The form does not send us a copy of the proposal and I thought
> it would, so do not have a copy of it.  But it is just a review of the work
> we have done this year at DCAD and what we hope to do in the future."
>
> DCAD sessions have always been valuable for the opportunity they provide
> for members from all over the world to share the ideas and initiatives from
> their various locations that have appeared over the year just past. A
> generous portion of the available time should be dedicated to that
> function. A number of speakers can be pre-selected (self-nomination through
> the DCAD list??) but there should still be time reserved for speakers
> contributing spontaneously.
>
> Over to all of you :-)
> De
>
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