 Steering Committee
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Steering Committee
The role of the Steering Committee is to provide early thought leadership to the G3ict's programs, and to help define the stakeholders'goals, marketing and technical objectives for each event.
Chair
Members
- Daniel Aghion, Executive Director, Wireless Internet Institute (W2i)
- Mohammed Al-Tarawneh, Founding Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Tamas Babinski, Even Grounds, Accessibility Consulting
- Peter Blanck, Chairman/Professor, Burton Blatt Institute/Syracuse University
- Judy Brewer, Director WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Director External Relations, G3ict
- Gerald Craddock, CEUD - National Disability Authority, Ireland
- David Dikter, Executive Director, Assistive Technologies Industry Association (ATIA)
- Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto, Counsellor, ITU-T SG 16 International (ITU)
- Ambassador Anda Filip, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
- K. Anne-Rivers Forcke, Public Sector Market Manager, IBM Research - Human Ability and Accessibilty Center
- Claudio Giugliemma, President, Dominic Foundation
- Larry Goldberg, National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM)
- Martin Gould, Accessibility Consultant
- Akiko Ito, Chief, Secretariat for the CRPD / UN DESA
- Mohamed Jemni, Head of the Research Laboratory UTIC, University of Tunis
- Irmgarda Kasinskaite, UNESCO
- John Kemp, President & CEO, Abilities!
- Sarbuland Khan, Honorary Advisor to the Chairman of GAID / UN DESA
- Emdad Khan, President and CEO, Internet Speech
- Fernando Laguarda, VP External Affairs and Policy Counselor, Time Warner Cable
- Axel Leblois, Executive Director, G3ict
- Dipendra Manocha, DAISY Consortium
- Suzan Mazrui, Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T Services, Inc.
- Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Office of Disability & Inclusive Development, Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning, USAID
- Mike Paciello, Founder & Principal, The Paciello Group
- Victor Pineda, President, The Victor Pineda Foundation
- Aleksandra Posarac, Disability and Development Social Protection and Labor, The World Bank
- Debra Ruh, Chief Marketing Officer, SSB Bart Group and Founder, TecAccess
- Ken Salaets Director, Technology and Trade Policy, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
- Licia Sbattella, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Susan Schorr, Head, Special Initiatives Division, ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
- Katherine Seelman, Professor Rehabilitation Science and Technology, Associate Dean Disability Programs School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
- Jenifer Simpson, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT)
- James Thurston, Senior Strategist, Global Policy and Standards, Microsoft
- Victor Tsaran, Accessibility Program Manager, Yahoo Corporation
- Frances West, World Wide Director, IBM Research - Human Ability and Accessibilty Center
Observers
- Fred Doulton, Social Affairs Officer, Secretariat for the CRPD / UN DESA
- Enrica Murmura, Officer, Secretariat, GAID / UN DESA
- Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission, Directorate General, Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities
- Dónal Rice, CEUD, Centre of Excellence in Universal Design, National Disability Authority of Ireland
- Eric Zhang, Social Affairs Officer, Secretariat for the CRPD / UN DESA