ICT and people with disabilities
The second day begun with the UNESCO workshop ICT and people with disabilities. Tunisian teacher of the Deaf, ms Senkez Latifa followed the presentations with the help of two french interpreters.
When coming to the venue on tuesday my first impression was: this is a big happening! But it was a bit false one, because the second day (wednesday, the first official day of the summit) was enormous and shadowed the initial impressions. Security is in class AAA (c.f. WAI standards) and programme seems to start late every day. It takes only 15 minutes from the centre to the venue, but it takes altogether something around 45 minutes to get finally in.
I have been wondering earlier why organisers of the conferences tend to schedule everything in so tight slots. Today, 16th November, we did not have time at all for a discussion in the workshop ICT and disabled. That was pity because as Markku pointed out UNESCO has not mentioned signed languages in their documents. However, the workshop had very good presentations of the sign language projects, e.g. in
posted by AR at 4:30 pm
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Markku
Unfortunately the UNESCO stand was too noisy for the terps to work decently. However, we managed to follow two presentetations and met also two Deaf tunisians. What a coincidence. Instead of the UNESCO meeting we decided to attend eGovernence workshop and that was excellent!
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