Rediscover life... Be there from anywere!

Rediscover life... Be there from anywere!
Social Integration
Opportunities for people
with Special Nedds

September, 24 - Thursday

TMN

| PANEL 1 | PANEL 2 | PANEL 3 | PANEL 4 | PANEL 5 |


Co-ordinator:
Clara Cidade Lains

Rapporteur:
Francisco Alves
Irolinda Soares

Paula Lebre

Moderators:
Andrew Miller
José Brito

José Magalhães


SESSION 1
Unlocking Rural Areas and other remote locations

 

9h30-10h00
Regional Development Through Telematics TELA.start
Tilman Toegel, EU Regions Committee, Germany

10h00-10h30
The Styal Prison Telecentre Project - lessons for disadvantaged groups
Bill Murray, Small World Connections SWC, UK

10h30-11h00
Coffee Break


SESSION 2
Remote-learning and Training: Real Facts

11h00-11h30
ISdAC – Information Society disAbilities Challenge
Fiorenza Scotti, FINSIEL - Telecom Italia, Italy

11h30-12h00
Training and employment for disabled people by means of new technologies and multimedia
Estela Correia, CERCIGUI, Portugal

12h00-12h30
Telematics and students with special needs - a case study
Eulália Cordeiro, CANTIC - Ministry of Education, Portugal


SESSION 3
Working in the Information Society as an elderly person

14h30-14h50
Social Integration Opportunities for People with special technological needs
Gregory Lewis, SeniorNet, USA

14h50-15h10
DAILY - How to make life easier
Francisco Godinho, Centro de Reabilitação Profissional de Gaia - CRPG, Portugal

15h10-15h30
The Elderly Citizens as Active Members of the Information Society
Marta Sandén, SeniorNet, Sweden

15h30-16h00
Coffee Break


SESSION 4
Integration of people with disabilities in the Information Society

16h00-16h20
New Opportunities for Deaf People - The impact of videotelephony as a communication tool for the provision of information services
Andrew Stephens, London Borough of Camden, UK

16h20-16h40
Telework and Telemployment for the Disabled
Sónia Fernandez, ECTF - Spain

16h40-17h00
Interaction between public and private sectors
João Confraria, Instituto das Comunicações de Portugal, Portugal


SESSION 5
Benefits and Incentives in home employment for disabled people

17h00-17h30
Reducing Exclusion through Telework
Frank Wilson, Interaction Design Ltd, UK

17h30-18h00
PORCIDE - THINK Towards Handicapped Integration Negotiating Knowledge
Sónia Almeida, Teleworker, Portugal

18h00-18h30
Integration of People with severe disabilities through telework
Riço Calado, Centro de Reabilitação Profissional de Alcoitão/Ranholas, Portugal



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