Barrier-free Project

Dear Booster

Thank you so much for your contribution to the Barrier Free Project ECAS. We have reached our target amount with your support and consideration!!!

Sefakor will get wheelchair accessible accommodations from today. We are arranging CART captioning services for Ambrose in 13 sessions in the conference from 28 June to 1 July, also an international sign interpretation service in one theatre performance on 29 June.

We would like to invite you to the special panel of Disability and Technology if you are interested and available to come to Basel. CART captioning services will be provided in the panel sessions. Please send us a message (sunghea.park@unibas.ch) if you would like to join the sessions. We will send you an invitation card. Detail information of the panel is as follows:

Session 1. (9:00-10:30, 1 July, Sat) CART captioning service in English
Patrick Devlieger. Technology and disability in DR Congo, 50 years after "Homme comme Toi"
Maria-Theres Schuler. Food for the 'extremely vulnerable': Questioning categories and revisiting dependency
Sunghea Park. Living with Deafness in Arusha, Tanzania: Sign Language beyond a Communication Modality for Deaf People
Gitte Beckmann. Appropriating Rights: Deaf people in Acholiland, Northern Uganda
 
Session 2. (14:00-15:30, 1 July, Sat) CART captioning service in English
Rehema Namaganda. Aging and the use of assistive technologies: The complexities involved
Clara Devlieger. Putting away Childish Things: Technology, Generation and Responsibility for Persons with Disabilities in Kinshasa, DR Congo
Raphael Schwere. Appropriation of Assistive Technology for People with Mobility Disabilities in Kampala along an Itinerary of Socio-Technical Transformations
Virginia De Silva. "Its name is Awetasc": Devices and Everyday Life of People with Physical Disability in Mekelle City (Tigray, Northern Ethiopia)
 
** Session 3. (16:00-17:30, 1 July, Sat) CART captioning service in English
Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie. How People with Disabilities Experience the Social Protection Programs under Rlg ICT and Rehabilitation Trainings in Ghana
Ambrose Murangira. Disability, Sociality and Appropriation of communication technologies by Deaf persons in Uganda
Marie Schnitzler. Experiencing the post-apartheid city in a wheelchair (Micthell's Plain, South Africa)
Ronald Luwangula & David Kyaddondo. Disability, Road Use Technologies, and Contested Citizenship in Uganda

Kind regards,

Support Team for Barrier Free in ECAS
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