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health solutions, and we want to promote employment and education and social
participation opportunities for people with a disability through the advanced technology
and education, to improve the ICT accessibility. So one of university will develop their own
education program and major. They tried to recruit students from developing country.
So making a\ some future scientists with disability. \
So, conclusion is the law and regulations are essential to improve ICT accessibility.
Sometimes we are concerned how to implement this new technology, this low tech or either
hightech, but if you reach through the government's part, it can make a more impact or effective
change. \ So outreach government and national agency
in developing countries to implement good solution is more effective. \
And also, cooperation with international civil society such as UN, UNICEF, UNESCO, World
Bank, G3ICT might be really good way to expand your technology acceptability. \
So, thank you. \
(APPLAUSE.) \
>>BECKY: We have any questions for Andrew? \
>>SUNIL: Thank you. I'm wondering if the emphasis in Korea on the technology access to the Internet
takes away from this disability access to nonvirtual worlds. Whether\'a0 where the impetus
comes from for the government to do so much and obviously corporate partners too. So those
are my two questions.
Did that make sense? \
\ >>BECKY: Does the question make sense? \
>>ANDREW: I think it wasn't that clear. \ >>AUDIENCE: First question: Whether exposure\'a0
working on virtual access to computers Internet for disabled persons takes away from access
to non\'a0 physical world or social accommodations and then secondly: Where does the political
will come from so much in Korea on this. \
>>ANDREW: Actually, the emphasis on Internet access doesn't\'a0 did not occur like physical
environment the experience or opportunity. Or the access to Web actually increased their
opportunity to participate in social like work. More like civil engagement part. They
can find their job or they can easily go to place for training, or they can find event
where it is. So that is the problem. If they don't use the Internet, they don't have access
to the information, computer, they have lack of information, because the Korean government
changed their everything by the Internet or like e governments and e commerce. \
You can buy food from your home and you can order everything, and like we are seeing individual
company, they own the company through the Internet. Like e commerce. And they make a
huge like billion dollars just Internet. So what you can see is people with disability,
they can actually own their company and they can manage it in their home, so that access
to Internet or information actually increased their participate in other activities, not
restricted to their physical experience. \
>>BECKY: I think the second part of that was why Korea has taken hold of this and making
it. \ >>ANDREW: I think Korea\'a0 Korea thinks they
are really good at information technology, and then there's nothing else they can do
(laughter), because we do not have much resources, so we do not lose our advantage, like international
competent, so they want to focus on more information technology. \
Now they really\'a0 they were strong at hardware, so now they want to more focus on software,
so we can be more competitive in the future. \
Does that answer? \ >>BECKY: Yeah. \
Other questions? \ Are we getting close? \
Another question? No? \ >>MARK: I have a quick question. This is Mark
Harniss. \ Can you talk a little bit about you have several
programs where you bring people into Korea to participate in activities. You talked about
setting up the centers outside in other countries. \
I'm not sure quite how to frame this question, but how\'a0did why do those countries and
how did you make decisions about what programming to put out into countries in order to improve
accessible IT? \
>>ANDREW: As we listened before my presentation,
some developing countries, they don't have like funds to set up the center or library
have computer access, so this actually provides them some good opportunity setting up those
kind of public center without much money, and then what it was problem was they were
lack of professional. They don't know how to use the not basic skills, such as using
the software or development of a Web pages or other like technical know how, so they
really want to get those manpower professional skills. And what I'm\'a0 what I tried to say
is that center cannot take care of all the population in the country, but that could
be the example of Information Access Center, so whenever the government has more funds,
they will start building a similar type of center in their local or suburb or other part
of their country, so it will became the bigger and bigger. \
>>DEEPTI: Hi. Deepti Samant. \ I think you mentioned you had some great programs
where the center was also doing things like reutilizing technology that was being discarded
and there was some reuse as well as, you know, the demonstrations and so on. \
Now, I just wanted to ask you, does that penetrate throughout the country? Or do you see a difference
between these centers are available in let's say the more urban areas and maybe not so
much in some others, so what's your take on the geographic division. \
>>ANDREW: So, what is benefit of this NIA is it is under government. So government agency.
So everyone knows this agency. So, a lot of the nongovernment organizations or other civil society,
they look for help from this agent. And what this agent can do has more authority because
it's close to government party, so they actually connected their like partnership. They can
link more like industry partnership or something like that better way. So even if some local
school, they don't have enough computers, they ask this agency, the agency tries to
help them out. So it's really good to have this set of the government agency upper, higher
division. \