Friday, November 25, 2005

Human Rights of the Information Society


There is interesting comments in the "Tentative schedule of Antti in WSIS 15th-18th November 2005" posting (see below). Let's continue the Human Rights discussion in this posting. I agree with Beat Kleeb who was in Geneva 2003 and wrote in his report: "If we don't stand up by ourselves, they will never think about the very special requirements of the Deaf and the blind in this exploding information society. A deafblind woman in a developing country is really the worst case example in this regard." I think here we have another utmost example of digital divide and a benchmark for human rights. The photo was taken from presentation of ms Wantanee Panthachart, the movement of ICT Accessibility in Thailand. She was the representative of the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center and gave her report on 18th november, the 2nd day of the Second Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society. Any comments?

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

who is jim frughtermann ?

7:28 am  
Blogger AR said...

Jim Fruchterman:
http://www.benetech.org/

5:05 pm  

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