Day 1: LIRNEasia’s Expert Forum on policy-relevant research on disability and information & communication technologies (ICTs)


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Day 1 of LIRNEasia’s Expert Forum on policy-relevant research on disability and information & communication technologies (ICTs) started with the presentation of findings and reflections on disability related research conducted by LIRNEasia in Nepal, Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka.

The day concluded with discussions on research gaps in the field including the need to expand the scope of research methodologies and what needs to be done to advance research.

The full video of the session can be found here.

The transcript of the session can be found here.

A list of event attendees are given below;

Gerard Goggin Wee Kim Wee Professor of Communication Studies at Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
Armita Satari Insights Manager – GSMA
Edgard Rodriguez Sr. Program Specialist / Myanmar Lead – International
Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Faye Martin Captioner Ai-Media
Isabelle Caboni Insights Director at GSMA
Janita Rukmal Co-founder of Enable Lanka Foundation
Judith Hellerstein Secretary A11YSIG
Katie Ellis Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for
Culture and Technology at Curtin University.
Khin Yamone Zaw Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB)
Niluka Gunawardena Researcher
Nirmita Narasimhan Senior Fellow and Programme Director with the Global Initiative
for Inclusive ICT
P V Madhusudhan Rao Professor in departments of mechanical engineering and design
at IIT Delhi
Regina Pasion Senior Program Officer of Coalitions for Change leading the
efforts on disability and disability inclusive reforms
Sarah Lewthwaite Senior Research Fellow within Southampton Education School at
the University of Southampton
Vandana Chaudhry Associate Professor, Department of Social WorkCity University of New York, College of Staten Island
Victor Zhuang Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University
Krystle Reid Wijesuriya Co-founder of Enable Lanka Foundation
kasturi Shridhar Consultant – Deaf Child Worldwide

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