[DCAD] Remerciement--IGF Session
Judith Hellerstein
judith at jhellerstein.com
Fri Aug 9 10:28:16 PDT 2024
HI All,
Thanks for all these great comments. It is great to hear from many of you. So
glad we have many new members. w
We will work to factor some of them into our Joint DCAD-OER Session. As many of
you know, The IGF Secretariat reached out to all DC session proposers asking us
to collaborate with other DCs on joint session proposals, considering the
limited number of slots on the IGF programme this year. As the IGF Secretariat
and MAG are responding to the community's request to have less overlapping
sessions and not to end so late this year, the result is fewer sessions overall,
which means that DCs also need to have fewer sessions. As there are a number of
new Dynamic Coalitions, it means that all DCs must partner with another DC to
have a session on the IGF Program. This year, we will be collaborating with the
DC on Open Educational Content. We are still working on the revised version of
our session, but when it is finished we will share it with the community.
In addition to this session, we also plan on applying for one of the hybrid
bilateral rooms for our annual meeting and will share this information with
you. These rooms are allowed to be booked by DCs to host an annual meeting, but
will not be listed on the IGF Program.
We will also be sharing in the next few weeks a new revision of the
Accessibility Guidelines the small team at DCAD volunteers has been working on.
It will take in many of these suggestions. We look forward to your engagement on
these and other projects. Hope all have a great weekend.
Best Regards,
Judith Hellerstein
DCAD Co-Coordinator
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On 8/9/24 12:14 PM, Lidia Best via DCAD wrote:
>
> Hi Deidre.
>
> Thanks for your comment.
>
> I am not surprised to see this particular workshop popularity here.
> From hard of hearing side, we are very concerned about link between
> disability,use of assistive technology and use of data.
>
> Not everyone maybe aware but hearing aids and cochlear implant processors do
> collect data using the devices themselves and the apps that we have to use in
> order of getting access to some functionality.
>
> Users are not even told about it and nothing is explained about collecting data.
> Is this ethical?
> This is just one aspect.
>
> Lidia
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, 16:57 Deirdre Williams, <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear DCAD, June and Lidia,
> Good day to all.
> In May 2023 DCAD published a revised Governance document and Code of Conduct.
> There is no stipulation that I can find about which language should be
> used, although I agree with Lidia that it may simplify things for all of
> us to arrange to use English as a common language for communication on the
> list. In the Code of Conduct there is emphasis on respect, tolerance and
> fairness. Since I have spent the last 16 years (the first IGF I attended
> was Hyderabad in 2008) in an "IGF" context, and the 16 before that in a
> regional (Latin America and the Caribbean) context working on issues of
> multilingualism and accessibility, this issue of languages is very
> important to me. If you think about it it's very important to all of us
> since if it's not managed properly it may deprive us of our rights to
> speak, and to be heard.
> There is also another issue here. We're missing a great opportunity.
> Over the last 5 years or so the DCAD list has come alive once a year to
> deal with Fellowships for the IGF. Then it goes silent until next year.
> This year plenty of DCAD members have expressed an interest in a proposed
> workshop on Disability and Data Protection. We won't all go to Riyadh, we
> won't all even manage to participate virtually, but everyone who responded
> is "here" on the DCAD list.
> So why is this workshop so interesting? Do you have fears or challenges
> about data protection? Do you have good ideas for improving data
> protection? If we choose we can share our knowledge and ideas now, on the
> DCAD list, help each other and possibly provide a useful resource for this
> interesting workshop.
> Let's use this opportunity for something good
> De
>
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 16:27, juneparris5--- via DCAD
> <dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Lidia
>
> Thank you for your support.
>
> June Parris
>
> On 7 Aug 2024 09:56, Lidia Best via DCAD <dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Deirdre. English is a working language at this level and for
> this reason we all use it.
> You would struggle even more if I wrote in Polish :-)
>
> Let's use common ground, which is English.
>
> Lidia
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, 14:51 Deirdre Williams via DCAD,
> <dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>
> The United Nations has six official languages - Arabic,
> Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
> DCAD habitually uses English on the list, but I am not aware
> that this has ever been stipulated as a "rule".
> Since we are interested in working together to improve
> accessibility, especially in a context of disability, isn't it
> desirable that we should try to be as flexible as possible in
> terms of language used for communication?
> Deirdre
> PS I'm glad that Joseph has English as well as French, but
> other people may not have that facility
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 07:26, June Parris via DCAD
> <dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Hope you are all well. I want to remind the group that the
> official language of the United Nations is English.
>
> Usually we address everyone using the same format. Since
> it is a group email, when someone is addressed as Doctor
> we don’t know who they are referring to, we really need to
> have a meeting ASAP to discuss the UN protocols.
>
> June Parris
>
> Research Associate
>
>
> > On 7 Aug 2024, at 05:26, Joseph Moussa via DCAD
> <dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Bonjour à tous,
> >
> > Je suis très heureux de faire partie de la famille BCAD
> en tant que nouveau membre. En tant que personne
> handicapée visuelle résidant au Bénin, directeur général
> du groupe TIC pour tous SARL et membre affilié au Forum
> des jeunes pour la gouvernance de l'Internet au Bénin, je
> suis profondément engagé dans la promotion de l'inclusion
> numérique pour les personnes en situation de handicap.
> >
> > Mon adhésion à BCAD me permettra d'approfondir mes
> connaissances sur les technologies numériques et de mieux
> servir ma communauté. Je suis impatient de collaborer avec
> les autres membres et d'apprendre de leurs expériences
> afin de développer des solutions innovantes pour
> l'accessibilité numérique.
> >
> > Ensemble, nous pouvons construire un monde plus inclusif
> où chacun a l'opportunité de s'épanouir grâce au
> numérique. Je remercie BCAD de m'avoir accueilli au sein
> de cette merveilleuse famille et je suis ravi de
> contribuer à ses efforts pour l'autonomisation des
> personnes en situation de handicap.
> >
> > Que Dieu bénisse BCAD et tous ses membres !
> >
> > Cordialement,
> > Joseph Moussa
> > Directeur général, Groupe TIC pour tous SARL
> > Membre affilié, Forum des jeunes pour la gouvernance de
> l'Internet au Bénin
> > Bénin
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