This class is same as 3.2B Minority of 3.2 Internet Users and Non-users.
Class Outline
Minorities: people with disability, children, senior citizen, low income people, linguistic/ethnic minority, discrimination
Technology
Universal service/access
Class Description (Nirmata Narasimhan)
The Internet and new technologies have opened up avenues of access and participation for persons with disabilities and other groups with limited or hindered access to participate and contribute to socio-economic and cultural life. There are over a billion persons with disabilities in the world, and 85% of them live in developing countries. They constitute the world’s largest minority. This class will look at the opportunities offered by the Internet for inclusion (with examples of assistive technologies), the breadth and number of persons who will be benefited by access to the Internet such as persons with disabilities, and elderly persons who are illiterate or have limited access, and we explain the concept of accessibility in this class.
Class Description (by Muhammad Shabbir)
Introduction:
What is Web Accessibility?
Overview of Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Explanation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)-2.0;
Web Accessibility Barriers;
Common Issues in the Way of Internet Accessibility;
Case for Making Websites Accessible.
Overview of Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Explanation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)-2.0;
Web Accessibility Barriers;
Common Issues in the Way of Internet Accessibility;
Case for Making Websites Accessible.
Class Description (by Gunela Astbrink) - Revised Class Description/2017.2.28
Strategies to get the next billion online need to include what are perceived as minority groups such as:
- People with disability
- Children
- Senior citizens
- People with low income
- Linguistic/ethnic minority
People with disability on average form 15% of a country's population and in some countries, senior citizens form 20% of the population. Children in many countries average about 30% of the population. Together with people on low incomes and from linguistic minorities, there is a large part of society that may be discriminated against leading to less ability to participate in the digital economy.
This class will outline issues for these groups and will then concentrate on Internet governance policy for people with disability and older people who most often have low incomes.
Topics covered will include:
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Marrakech Treaty
W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
NetMundial and other Internet governance mechanisms
Accessibility in ICT public procurement
Disaster risk management and disability
There will be a demonstration by people with disability on how they use the Internet. This will be either in-person demonstrations or through video. This will be followed by discussion on Internet accessibility and its benefits to education and employment and general participation in the community.
- People with disability
- Children
- Senior citizens
- People with low income
- Linguistic/ethnic minority
People with disability on average form 15% of a country's population and in some countries, senior citizens form 20% of the population. Children in many countries average about 30% of the population. Together with people on low incomes and from linguistic minorities, there is a large part of society that may be discriminated against leading to less ability to participate in the digital economy.
This class will outline issues for these groups and will then concentrate on Internet governance policy for people with disability and older people who most often have low incomes.
Topics covered will include:
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Marrakech Treaty
W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
NetMundial and other Internet governance mechanisms
Accessibility in ICT public procurement
Disaster risk management and disability
There will be a demonstration by people with disability on how they use the Internet. This will be either in-person demonstrations or through video. This will be followed by discussion on Internet accessibility and its benefits to education and employment and general participation in the community.
Lecturer Pool:
Additional Candidate Lecturers: Nirmita Narasimhan, Adrian Roselli, Muhammad Shabbir, Malavika Jayaram, Masafumi Nakane, Gunela Astbrink
References
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Gunela Astbrink, Digital accessibility policy and practice: case studies from Australia and the Pacific, 2014.
Gunela Astbrink, Ability Links: People with disability and ICT, 2015.
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Google, Google got permission to float its internet-beaming balloons over Puerto Rico, Mashable Asia, 2017.10.
Gunela Astbrink, The role of public procurement in improving accessibility to ICT, 2016.
Gunela Astrbink, Bio, 2017.
ICANN, Cross Community Committee on Accessibility, 2016.11.06
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IGF, Community Intersessional Program - New Billion, 2016.
ISOC, Internet Governance for Development, in Shaping the Internet, 2015.
Jovan Kurbalija, Development Basket, in Introduction to IG, 2015.
UN, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2015.
WEF, Network Readiness Index.
Facebook with Internet.org on Free Basics, Drone Project
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