Disabled climber is undaunted by Everest challenge
No challenge is too big and no mountain too high for Sudarshan Gautam. Gautam is preparing to climb Mount Everest this year, but he'll attempt the summit without something most people think is essential for a mountaineer - arms.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Disabled+climber+undaunted+Everest+challenge/5933884/story.html
MIUSA's Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD) will bring together approximately 30 women leaders with disabilities from approximately 30 different countries, to strengthen leadership skills, create new visions and build international networks of support for inclusive international development programming.
During the three-week program, participants will take part in workshops, seminars and discussions, conduct on-site visits, and participate in team-building activities, to explore challenges and exchange strategies for increasing leadership opportunities and participation of women and girls with disabilities in international development programs.
The WILD program will include interactive workshops, site visits and practical activities on priority issues for women with disabilities, including:
· National and International Policies and Legislation, including the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Disability Policy
· Educational rights and opportunities including specialized and inclusive schools, policy and legal rights, services and accommodations for accessibility
· Leadership for economic empowerment, including higher education, training models, supported employment, microenterprise, private sector partnerships, career mentorship, skill-building, employment policy, and career development.
· Health and family issues including parenting, health care, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and violence prevention
· Using the media
· Coalition building
· Organizational development and sustainability, including funding resources and strategies, and fostering partnerships with community organizations and businesses
· Goals and action plans to promote collaborative relationships with other organizations for the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in international development programs.
· Inclusive international development, including exchanging strategies for inclusion with representatives from U.S-based international development organizations and/or human rights organizations
· Cultural and team-building experiences
· Mentorship and networking
For more information or to download an application go to:http://www.miusa.org/exchange/currentprogs/wild/wild2012/index_html
The official languages of WILD are English, Arabic, Spanish and American Sign Language (ASL). Participants must have at least conversational ability in English and/or be familiar with ASL.
Auditions for Youth Advocates with Disabilities
Be a part of an exciting Global Disability Advocacy and Education Project! If you are between the ages of 12-30, you are eligible to be part of a global education project. You may be selected to share your voice in a user generated disability etiquette video. For more information please contact Elizabeth Pope Program Coordinator, World Enabled/Pineda Foundation for Youth at: liz@pinedafoundation.orgAfter signing up you will receive instructions on how to audition. The Deadline to Apply is: February 10, 2012. The Online application can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?rm=full&formkey=dFp1Vk1HdllJUXB5S2d0MS14cW93MlE6MQ
Contact:
Elizabeth PopeProgram Coordinator, Pineda Foundation for Youth
Slowly, slowly, very slowly the imperative of Universal Design as urban planning is trickling into US thought. Here John Lorinc helps the process along:
When he worked as the parks commissioner in Bogotá, Gil Penalosa helped trigger a quality of urban life revolution of sorts by promoting car-free Sundays - "ciclovias" -- on hundreds of kilometers of the streets around the Colombian capital. As this video shows, over 1.3 million residents each week would take to their bikes or participate in festivals and activities throughout Bogotá. In so doing, they boosted both their enjoyment of the city and their own fitness levels, thus creating a lively, low-emission sense of community for people from all walks of life, so to speak.
In his current gig as the executive director of Toronto-based 8-80 Cities, Penalosa travels the world with a trenchant question that arose out of those experiences: how do we create cities in which both 8-year-olds and 80-year-olds can move about safely and enjoyably? "We have to stop building cities as if everyone is 30 years-old and athletic," he says.
His 8 to 80 litmus test involves imagining a public space, but especially a busy city street or intersection, and asking whether it is suitable for young and old alike. In all too many locations - signalized crossings on wide suburban arterials, narrow bike lanes, over-taxed sidewalks, etc. - the answer will be no.
By way of solutions, Penalosa's group has advised cities like Seville and Guadalajara on the importance of more accessible surface transit, improved cycling and pedestrian infrastructure, and more programmable park space.
But in many aging societies, where the proportion of seniors will grow as much as four-fold over the next two decades, public space improvements alone won't make large urban areas, especially car-dependent suburbs, more suitable to the needs of older residents. Indeed, one of the most difficult questions facing urban areas is how they will go about making themselves more age-friendly.
Accessibility is obviously a big piece of the puzzle. In Japan, where the aging curve is further along, planning officials and architects have promoted "universal design" principles that can be found in such amenities as multi-generational housing meant to address the shortage of caregivers.
Read more:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/01/8-80-problem-designing-cities-young-and-old/959/
Porque faltamos modas para os consumidores com deficiencias?
The call for papers for the 2012 Lancaster Disability Studies Conference is now open.
Um bom ano novo. Gratas aos nossos amigos a Expansão!
L'Observatoire interministériel de l'accessibilité et de la conception universelleorganise le 9 décembre 2011, à Paris, une journée conférence sur la thématique de la Conception Universelle (« Universal Design »).
La France, dans la suite de l'Union européenne et à l'instar de 105 autres pays, a ratifié la convention ONU de décembre 2006 promouvant la conception universelle. Il s'agit pour l'Observatoire de consacrer une journée à l'approfondissement de ce concept afin de permettre dans un temps second sa diffusion auprès des différents acteurs et son appropriation par notre société.
Mme Valérie FLETCHER, directrice exécutive de l'« Institute for Human Centered Design » de Boston, et M. Francesc ARAGALL, président de la « Design for All Foundation », participeront activement à cette journée.
Ce colloque s'articulera autour de 3 temps forts :
Le programme définitif sera prochainement mis en ligne.
Cette conférence sera traduite en français/anglais, vélotypie et LSF.
Quelques définitions de la Conception Universelle :
On entend par « conception universelle » la conception de produits, d'équipements, de programmes et de services qui puissent être utilisés par tous, dans toute la mesure possible, sans nécessiter ni adaptation ni conception spéciale. (Article 2 de la convention de l'ONU)
« La conception universelle est une stratégie qui vise à concevoir et à composer différents produits et environnements qui soient, autant que faire se peut et de la manière la plus indépendante et naturelle possible, accessibles, compréhensibles et utilisables par tous, sans devoir recourir à des solutions nécessitant une adaptation ou une conception spéciale. » (Conseil de l'Europe ResAP(2001)1)
« Design for All est la conception d'environnements, produits et services afin que toutes les personnes, futures générations incluses, sans distinction d'âge, de genre, de capacité ou d'origine culturelle, puissent avoir les mêmes opportunités de comprendre, d'accéder et de participer pleinement aux activités économiques, sociales, culturelles et de loisirs, de manière la plus indépendante possible. » (Design for All Foundation)
Turismo Visión Argentina presente en el Ministerio de Turismo en el marco del Programa Directrices de Accesibilidad en Alojamientos y Servicios Turísticos, de la Dirección Nacional de Gestión de Calidad Turística del Ministerio de Turismo de la Nación. Dialogamos con Enrique Meyer, Ministro de Turismo de la Nación y con Gonzalo Casanova Ferro, Director Nacional de Gestión de Calidad Turística.
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CONFERÊNCIA Sudi 2012 - SUSTAINABILITY & DISABILITY Sustentabilidade & ACESSIBILIDADE SUDI 2012 Conference: (http://sudi.mgt.unm.edu) 12 e 13 de junho - Manaus, Brazil
Tema: "Criação de empregos em uma economia verde."
Descrição:
A Economia Verde vai criar um ponto de inflexão na economia global, levando a uma nova geração de produtos verdes, serviços, tecnologias e inovações. A área indústria verde, serviços, agricultura e as economias vão exigir o desenvolvimento de novas competências, resultando na necessidade de treinamento e formação educacional. A reestruturação para a economia verde também exigirá uma redistribuição em grande escala de postos de trabalho nas indústrias. Empregos verdes serão gerados para oferecer produtos, serviços, tecnologias e inovações, exigindo a formação de novos empregos e qualificação profissional. Como resultado, o emprego profissional também deve aumentar. Assim, construir uma economia verde, inclusiva que gerar empregos para trabalhadores com necessidades especiais, ou para grupos minoritários, e criar oportunidades para tirar as pessoas da pobreza, propiciando geração de emprego e renda promovendo uma auto-suficiência econômica, constitui um dos principais desafios que permeiam a Iniciativa da Economia Verde. A Conferência Sudi 2012 abordará estratégias inclusivas para as populações em desvantagem para encontrar oportunidades de emprego nas demandas em constante mudança da força de trabalho da nova economia emergente verde. Conferência Sudi 2012Tópicos
1. Oportunidades, desafios e barreiras que enfrentam as pessoas com necessidades especiais na nova economia verde.14.Estratégias inclusivas para a Copa do Mundo.
The National Association of the Remodeling Industry offers its Universal Design Remodeling Class starting in January.
The class will cover the seven principals of universal design: equitable use, flexibility in use, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort, and size and space for approach and use.
According to NARI, attendees "will understand the differences between model building codes and ones described within the Americans with Disabilities Act. "
The course meets online every Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m. CST for four weeks.
Classes start Jan. 3, 2012; March 6, 2012; or May 8, 2012. The cost is $295 for NARI members and $395 for nonmembers. NARI cites this as a NARI Education Course, not a NARI Certification Program.
To apply, complete the Universal Design Certified Professional application for the UDCP program
CONFERÊNCIA Sudi 2012 - SUSTAINABILITY & DISABILITY
Sustentabilidade & ACESSIBILIDADE
SUDI 2012 Conference: (http://sudi.mgt.unm.edu)
Tema: "Criação de empregos em uma economia verde."
Descrição:
A Economia Verde vai criar um ponto de inflexão na economia global, levando a uma nova geração de produtos verdes, serviços, tecnologias e inovações. A área indústria verde, serviços, agricultura e as economias vão exigir o desenvolvimento de novas competências, resultando na necessidade de treinamento e formação educacional. A reestruturação para a economia verde também exigirá uma redistribuição em grande escala de postos de trabalho nas indústrias. Empregos verdes serão gerados para oferecer produtos, serviços, tecnologias e inovações, exigindo a formação de novos empregos e qualificação profissional. Como resultado, o emprego profissional também deve aumentar. Assim, construir uma economia verde, inclusiva que gerar empregos para trabalhadores com necessidades especiais, ou para grupos minoritários, e criar oportunidades para tirar as pessoas da pobreza, propiciando geração de emprego e renda promovendo uma auto-suficiência econômica, constitui um dos principais desafios que permeiam a Iniciativa da Economia Verde. A Conferência Sudi 2012 abordará estratégias inclusivas para as populações em desvantagem para encontrar oportunidades de emprego nas demandas em constante mudança da força de trabalho da nova economia emergente verde. Conferência Sudi 2012Tópicos
1. Oportunidades, desafios e barreiras que enfrentam as pessoas com necessidades especiais na nova economia verde. 2. Educação, formação, necessidades profissionais para a economia verde, como eles podem ser adaptados para pessoas com necessidades especiais. 3. Projetar programas de treinamento e oportunidades de emprego para pessoas com necessidades especiais na economia verde. 4. Garantir que pessoas com necessidades especiais sejam capazes de beneficiar a economia verde: a concepção de parcerias estratégicas com diferentes segmentos da sociedade, ambiente político e empresarial. 5. Criação de incentivos, políticas e práticas para aumentar a participação das pessoas com necessidades especiais na economia verde. 6. O papel do governo, setor privado, universidades, ONGs, organizações multilaterais, na criação de oportunidades para pessoas com necessidades especiais em uma economia verde. 7. Formulação de políticas para lidar com questões de deficiência nas comunidades nativas. 8. Desenho de estratégias de aquisição verde no governo e setor privado a incluir as empresas de propriedade de profissionais com necessidades especiais. 9. Acesso universal e estratégias de desenho universal em uma economia verde. 10. Cidades verdes e infraestrutura verde: planejamento e resposta às necessidades dos portadores de necessidades especiais. 11. Redução da pobreza em um contexto de economia verde. 12. Sustentabilidade ambiental. 13. Desenvolvimento econômico e social.14.Estratégias inclusivas para a Copa do Mundo.
On 1 December 2011, the "European Day of People with Disabilities", the
Austrian city Salzburg was awarded the Access City Award 2012. This
award, organised by the European Union (EU) in partnership with the
European Disability Forum (EDF), recognises efforts to improve
accessibility in the urban environment and to promote equal
participation in society by disabled people.
The second edition of the award received nominations from 114 cities in
EU countries, of which 31 were selected by national juries comprising
disabled people and accessibility experts for the European jury to
judge. Salzburg was chosen as the overall winner for its outstanding
achievements in all of the award's key accessibility areas: the built
environment and public realm, transport and related infrastructure,
information and communication, including new technologies, and public
facilities and services. The other finalists were Krakow, Marburg and
Santander.
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, who presented the award, said:
"The Access City award helps to highlight and promote good practice
across Europe, at a time when an ageing population is making
accessibility for all a necessity." She added: "I would like to see an
Accessibility Act for Europe and intend to come forward with a proposal
by the end of 2012."
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