Conference-Area

International Workshop

November 23rd (Sat) 13:00-17:00　　UDX Conference（6F）

Diffusion of Telecommunication Relay Service

Part Ⅰ Current situation of telecommunication relay service

Presentation about the situation of telecommunication in USA, Europe, Korea, Thailand and Japan.

Part Ⅱ　Panel Discussion and Q&A

Panelist：

Ms. Andrea J. Saks (International Telecommunications Specialist for the Deaf)
(International Telecommunications Specialist for the Deaf,Convener ITU Joint Coordinating Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors, Coordinator IGF Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability)

Mr. Jeff McWhinney
(Managing Director of SignVideo, the member of European Union of the Deaf’s ICT Experts Working Group)

Mr. Choi Woan-Sik
(Director, National Information Society Agency of Korea)

Mr. Somyos Sundaravibhat
(Director of Thai Telecommunication Relay Service)

Mr. Withayoot Bunnag
(Advisory Committee member of Thai Telecommunication Relay Service)

Mr. Masayuki Inoue
(Associate Professor, National Technical University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Conference on Information Accessibility

November 23rd (Sat) 13:00-17:00UDX Conference（6F）

The World without sound
– what we can hear through heart-to-heart contact –

Nov 24th 10:00-11:00 Speech
Mr. Kentaro Hayase, Filmmaker

My experience with ITU for the global accessibility

Nov 24th 11:00-12:00 Key Speech
Ms. Andrea J Sack ITU Advisor

Google’s proposal for solutions to change people’s life

Nov 24th 12:00-13:00 Key Speech
Mr. Kannan Pashupathy, Google, Inc.
 

A social change being made by accessibility of information

Nov 24th 13:00-14:30　Panel discussion

Chair Ms. Eiko Ogura（Japanese Association of Sign Language Interpreters）

• Mr. Fujisaburo Ishino, President of Japanese Federation of the Deaf
• Ms. Asako Hirokawa, Theatre Accessibility Network
• Mr. Yasushi Ishihara, Vice President of Tsukuba University of Technology
• Ms. Chika Sekine, Prof. of Doshisha University, President of UDIT(Universal Design Institute for Information Technology

3/11 and information accessibility

Professor　Atsushi TANAKA
The Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
 

Workshop on Information Accessibility

November23rd (Sat) 10:00-17:00　　UDX Next1（4F）
November24th (Sun) 10:00-15:00　　UDX Next1（4F）

Report 1 Nov 23rd 10:00-11:00	Promotion of policies ensuring communication for everyone Prof. Hajime Yamada Info-communication Access Council Department of Policy Studies, Faculty of Economics, Toyo University
Report 2 Nov 23rd 11:00-12:00	Our study of Development for Disaster and Emergency Communication System for Persons with Hearing and Speaking Disabilities Mr. Hiroshi Nakabayashi The Telecommunication Technology Committee NTT Data Institute of management consulting, Inc.
Special Report Nov 23rd 12:00-13:00	SLinto; Sign language dictionary in the age of Cloud and remote sign language interpreting. Mr. Junto Ohki, President, ShuR Group Ms. Tomoko Ohshima, Microsoft Japan
Report 3 Nov 23rd 13:00-14:00	Accessibility leads to products and services usable for everyone Mr. Yasuyuki Hoshikawa The Accessible Design Foundation of Japan
Report 4 Nov 23rd 14:00-15:00	On accessibility of public transport Mr.Tokutaro Iwata Foundation for Promoting Personal Mobility and Ecological Transportation
Report 5 Nov 23rd 15:00-16:00	The activities of Hearing Impairment Facilities in Japan The activities of Hearing Impairment Facilities in Japan Mr. Nobuyuki Kurosaki, Vice-president National Federation of Hearing Impairment Facilities Conference
Report 6 Nov 23rd 16:00-17:00	Our challenge toward future barrier-free broadcasting Organization of Broadcasting for People with Disability – Dr. Masahito Kawamori, Project Professor Graduate School of Media and Governance Keio University ITU Acting Rapporteur, “Accessibility to multimedia systems and services” ITU-T Study Group 16 -Mr. Norihiko Nishitaki, Director, Japanese Federation of the Deaf -Mr. Yuzo Ohshima, japanese Orgabaization of CSbroodoccasting for People with Disability WXECUTIVEDirector YUzo OSHIMA
Report 7 Nov 24th 11:00-12:00	Aiming to improve Information and Communication Accessibility of our society: two examples Mr. Yasunobu Ishii, Director, Disability Programs, The Nippon Foundation
Report 8 Nov 24th 11:00-12:00	The current topics of technologies for Sign Language and Captioning broadcasting Dr. Nobuyuki Hiruma Senior Research Engineer NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories
Report 9 Nov 24th 13:00-14:00	Towards accessible broadcasting and universal broadcasting service Mr. Isamu Yohii, New Media Inc. Mr. Naoatsu Sata, Dentsu Inc.
Report 10 Nov 24th 14:00-15:00	Sign Language Interpreter—from the viewpoint of information accessibility Ms. Noriko Komeno Director, The National Research Association for Sign Language Interpretation