| Countries Invited & Participants | 24 persons from 11 countries (Mainly NGO officers) Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu, Viet Nam |
| Target Group | NGO officer responsible for information management and public relations in a disability-related organization |
| Course Objectives | Upon completion of the course, participants are expected to be able to;
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| Accommodation | Asia Hotel Bangkok 269 Phayathai road, Rajthevi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand Tel: 66-(0)2- 2150808, FAX: 66-(0)2- 2159005 Web-site : (http://www.asiahotel.co.th) |
| Date | Day | Schedule | Venue |
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| 22-Jun | Tuesday | Opening, Orientation, Presentation by Participants on Information Management | Asia Hotel |
| 23-Jun | Wednesday | Lecture on Information Management: Case of PWDs ( India, Viet Nam and Japan) | Asia Hotel |
| 24-Jun | Thursday | Lecture on Information Management: Case of NGOs & UN (Bannok.com, Shin Corporation, ESCAP) | Asia Hotel |
| 25-Jun | Friday | Lecture on Information Management: Case of Media ( Siam Guru, MCOT, Bangkok Post) | Asia Hotel |
| 26-Jun | Saturday | Summary discussion on the previous 4 days session | Asia Hotel |
| 27-Jun | Sunday | Day Off | |
| 28-Jun | Monday | Concept of Information Accessibility (World Summit for Information Society, ICT Assistive Devices) | Asia Hotel |
| 29-Jun | Tuesday | Field Visit | |
| 30-Jun | Wednesday | Making an action plan for information management and networking | Asia Hotel |
| 1-Jul | Thursday | Web Accessibility: Hands on Training 1 | NECTEC |
| 2-Jul | Friday | Web Accessibility: Hands on Training 2 | NECTEC |
| 3-Jul | Saturday | Web Accessibility: Hands on Training 3 | NECTEC |
| 4-Jul | Sunday | Day Off | |
| 5-Jul | Monday | Web Accessibility: Hands on Training 4 | NECTEC |
| 6-Jul | Tuesday | Web Accessibility: Hands on Training 5 | NECTEC |
| 7-Jul | Wednesday | Web Accessibility: Hands on Training 6 | NECTEC |
| 8-Jul | Thursday | Self-Study | NECTEC |
| 9-Jul | Friday | Final Presentation by Participants, Closing ceremony | NECTEC Asia Hotel |
Course Leader: Mr. Monthian Buntan, President, Thailand Association for the Blind
Sub-Course Leader: Ms. Jirat Wachirasereechai / Mr. Hisao Chiba, APCD
Main Facilitator for Information Management and Networking: Mr. Javed Abidi, National Center for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, India
Main Lecturer for Web Accessibility: Mr. Masafumi Nakane, Keio University, Japan
The workshop is basically divided into two parts:
In the first day, all participants will be requested to make a brief presentation on your organization, activities, and country report of information networking and management. It should be a group discussion style, each participant has approximately 10 minutes to present. Required information will be provided later in this paper.
In the session of the information networking and management, you will learn case studies of disability network, non-disability national and regional network as well as professional media network. In the end of the session, you will be requested to make an action plan of your organization for information networking and management.
In the Information Accessibility: Hands-on training session, you must make an accessible and information website for persons with disabilities by yourself. You should at least know how to make a basic website before joining the session. You are also requested to prepare web contents information by yourself. Basic contents of your website could be the same with your prepared presentation but it should be full detail. The web contents will also be re-planned according to the action plan that you will make in the workshop.
The end of the workshop, 9 July, you must present your action plan for information networking and management with the accessible website which you will make during the workshop.
The certificate of the workshop will be delivered at the closing ceremony, when you complete the workshop.
All participants are required to prepare the following information in order to share a common situation in information networking and management in your organization/country.
Should you have any question, please feel free to contact Mr. Chiba at chiba@apcdproject.org.
