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Daniel Aghion
Daniel is Executive Director and co-Founder of the Wireless Internet Institute (W2i), an independent forum bringing together stakeholders around the world to accelerate the adoption of wireless Internet in support of social and economic development and better managed cities, communities and regions | Read articles

Nilofar Ansher
Nilofar is Online Producer for G3ict | She tweets as @G3ict | Read articles

Saveria Arma

Saveria Arma is a professional subtitler, respeaker and interpreter. She holds a PhD in audio description for the blind; she has created a non-profit association in Italy, CulturAbile, and works on various projects concerning accessibility for people with sensory impairments. You can follow CulturAbile on Twitter @culturabile and visit the website: http://culturabile.it | Read Articles

Nalini Asha Biggs

Nalini is an educational researcher at the University of Oxford and an independent consultant on education for children with disabilities, inclusive HIV/AIDS programming and the sociology of disability in developing countries | Read Articles

Fernando Botelho

Fernando is Managing partner of Botelho & Paula Consultoria Empresarial Ltda., a consulting firm based in Curitiba, Brazil, that designs and manages projects in the areas of poverty reduction, technology, and disability. The company specializes in low-cost and scalable solutions | Read Articles | Follow Fernando Botelho on Twitter

Francesca Cesa Bianchi

Francesca is G3ict's Vice President, Institutional Relations | Read Articles

James Coltham

UK, Edinburgh-based James is a local, government web services manager by day; web, usability, social media and accessibility blogger at lunchtime; freelancer by night. He blogs at http://prettysimple.co.uk/blog | Read Articles

Bill Curtis-Davidson

Bill is Business Development & Solutions Leader, Worldwide Human Ability & Accessibility Center at IBM Corporation. He co-chairs with Arthur Murphy (see blogger below) the Georgia Alliance for Accessible Technologies (GAIT) working group, currently sponsored by G3ict, a large consortium of 60+ public, private and local disability community organizations which leverages multiple Georgia assets to collaboratively explore ICT Accessibility Innovation Themes for the collective benefit of the State of Georgia, its local municipalities, and citizens | Read Articles

David Fazio

David is the founder and president of Helix Opportunity, a business development and business-related disability services firm that facilitates inclusion through harmony at work. David was welcomed into the world of disability on August 2, 1996 when an aneurysm in his brain ruptured into a softball sized hemorrhagic stroke. When he woke from his coma he was completely paralyzed on the left side of his body, could not speak and could barely function. Since then, Mr. Fazio has regained his ability to walk and talk. He has graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Media Studies. Since his brain aneurysm, David has provided guidance to children with disabilities and their parents on how to achieve meaningful success. He has facilitated the recruitment of disabled employees through federal mentoring initiatives and represented employees in administrative hearings of disability discrimination before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Mr. Fazio lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and has offices in San Francisco and San Jose, California. Visit the website: www.helixopp.com | Read Articles

Rachel Garaghty

Rachel is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota (USA) where she earned a Master's degree in Public Policy. Rachel specializes in disability inclusive international development and is interested in innovative, low-cost technology and practices to create accessible environments for people with disabilities | Read Articles

Alexandre Gorelik
Alexandre is Executive Director of UNIC Moscow, the United Nations Information Centre in Moscow |
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Lucy Greco

Lucy is a blind advocate for accessible technology. An Assistive Technology Specialist at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Bay Area, Greco is the user of various assistive technologies since the early 1980s. She is passionate about the ways technology makes the world more accessible to everyone but especially to individuals with disabilities | Read Articles

James Herndon

James is a freelance writer whose experience spans technical, creative, and other media domains. He is the co-founder of Equal Entry, a blog that provides news and information about the latest innovations in assistive technology. As Documentation Author for HiSoftware, Herndon developed user manuals and training materials for 30 software products for clients including Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Working with field biologists from the International Snow Leopard Trust, a non-profit conservation organization, Herndon used their research as source material for web content, grant reports, newsletter articles, and donor solicitation pages. He has also worked for Per Aspera Press, an independent publishing house, where he conducted promotional interviews, organized author appearances, and edited upcoming releases. A fiction writer himself, Herndon is a recent graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. He holds a B.A. in English from North Carolina State University and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College | Read Articles

Preety Kumar: Mass Marketing & Communication

Preety is Founder and CEO of Deque Systems, Inc., a pioneer in the field of information accessibility. Read articles | Follow Preety Kumar on Twitter

Axel Leblois: The Access Line
Axel is Executive Director of G3ict, co-Founder of W2i, the Wireless Internet Institute, and President of its parent company World Times, Inc | Read Articles

Michael Lightner
Professor Lightner is 2006 IEEE President; 2009 IEEE Conference co-Chair; Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | Read Articles

Peter Major
Peter is Executive Director of Cybespace Consulting, a Geneva based IT policy consulting company specializing on questions of internet governance, cyber security, standards and telecommunication policy | Read Articles

Daver Malik
Daver is R&D Coordinator, Information Services at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport | Read Articles

Irene Mbari-Kirika
Irene is Founder & Executive Director at inABLE (Our reading Spaces Foundation), a non for profit organization aimed at empowering the blind and visually impaired in Africa through assistive technology | Read Articles

Christine Mugimba
Christine is Manager Research and Development with the Uganda Communications Commission | Read Articles

Arthur Murphy
Arthur is President of Aeolian Solutions, a consultancy that assists clients in accessibility evaluation and user interface design. He co-chairs with Bill Curti-Davidson (see blogger above) the Georgia Alliance for Accessible Technologies (GAIT) working group, currently sponsored by G3ict, a large consortium of 60+ public, private and local disability community organizations which leverages multiple Georgia assets to collaboratively explore ICT Accessibility Innovation Themes for the collective benefit of the State of Georgia, its local municipalities, and citizens | Read Articles

Nirmita Narasimhan
Nirmita is Programme Manager at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India | Read Articles

Mike Paciello: Industry Innovation

Mike is Founder and President of The Paciello Group (TPG), a software accessibility consultancy limited liability company. Read Articles | Follow Mike Paciello on Twitter

Joyojeet Pal
Joyojeet is Visiting Assistant Professor, Technology Management, at NYU-Poly | Read Articles

Robert Pearson
Robert is an information technology professional who has been functioning, influencing, and engaging in the accessibility industry since 1999. He is an industry advocate, community builder, trainer and developer. With experience gained through the Canadian federal government and abroad, Robert spent a number of years as the manager of accessibility for a major Canadian financial institution. He sat as a contributing member of the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario’s (AODA) Information and Communications Standards Development Committee and is also a founding member of the Canadian Financial Institutions Roundtable on Accessible Technology (CFIAT). As a Director with Accessible Media Inc (AMI), Robert is in a position to advocate, support and promote the community from which he came. Robert regularly speaks about his experiences within the industry and some of the personal challenges he has faced with his own unique disability | Read Articles | Follow Robert on Twitter

Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero: Disability Policy
Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero is Directorate General Justice, European Commission | Read Articles

Dónal Rice

Dónal is Senior ICT Advisor with the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (CEUD), National Disability Authority of Ireland. He also serves as Editor of the ITU-G3ict e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities | Read Articles

Cyndi Rowland
Dr Rowland is Associate Director of the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University |

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Debra Ruh: Employability & Technology Task Force
Debra Ruh has been in the ICT Accessibility and Disability Inclusion industries for many years. Currently she is the Managing Director of Ruh Global a business focused on inclusion of people with disabilities into all aspects of society. In 2001, she founded TecAccess, the leading provider of accessible Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) for the largest and fastest growing minority group – People with Disabilities, Baby Boomers, and Veterans with Disabilities in the world. TecAccess merged with SSB BART Group (SSB) in April 2011 and Debra took on the role as the Chief Marketing Officer for SSB until December 2012 She is a proud mom of two grown children, the oldest a daughter born with Down syndrome | Read Articles | Follow Debra Ruh on Twitter

Amit Shai: Education

Amit is Director of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning in Long Beach City College (LBCC) and an award winning instructional designer | Read Articles

Henny Swan
Henny is a freelance consultant, with 10 years experience of web development specializing in accessibility. She has been working with the Web since 1995, most recently as Web Evangelist with Opera Software and Senior Web Accessibility Consultant for RNIB, the Royal National Institute of the Blind People. Her areas of interest include internationalization, mobile access, and how the two complement accessibility | Read Articles | Henny's personal blog

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thia Waddell: ICT Accessibility & Government Services
The Late Cynthia Waddell was the Executive Director and Law, Policy and Technology Subject Matter Expert for the International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) | Read Articles

Hajime Yamada: Harmonization & Standardization
Hajime is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Toyo University, Japan and is a Member of the Engineering Academy of Japan | Read Articles

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