Information and Communications Technologies Standards Board (ICTSB)

.. to coordinate the standardization activities in the field of Information and Communications Technologies


Open conference on the results from Phase 1 of Standards Mandate 376:
"Public Procurement of accessible ICT in Europe"
Agenda


Venue: Diamant Business and Meeting Centre, Bd Auguste Reyerslaan 80, B-1030 Brussels (http://www.diamant.be/ opens a new window)

 

Day 1 – Tuesday, 3 June 2008

09.30  Registration and coffee

            Session One: Context of Work
Chair: Gill Whitney, DATSCG

10.30  Welcome Address by Belinda Pyke, Director, European Commission, DG Employment Social Affairs and equal opportunities - Directorate Equality between Men and Women, Action against Discrimination, Civil Society

10.50  Position Statements
– Rodolfo Cattani, EDF
– Tony Graziano, EICTA

11.20  The International Perspective
– David Capozzi, USA Access Board  Download the pdf-file
– Judy Brewer, W3C ( html slides opens a new window or zip-file Download the zip-file

12.00  The Commission’s policies in the area of disability, e-accessibility and expectations from the mandate (phase 1 and 2) – speakers from the European Commission
– Martina Sindelar, DG Enterprise
– Ima Placencia, DG Employment
– Miguel Gonzalez, DG Information Society

12.20  Introduction to the Conference and Process for Participating - Gill Whitney

12.30  Lunch

            Session Two: European Accessibility Requirements for ICT Public Procurement
Chair: Stephen Furner, ETSI/TC HF
Rapporteur: Luc Van den Berghe, CEN

14.00  Presentation by the ETSI/TC HF/STF333 experts of their draft report  Download the pdf-file

15.30  Tea

16.00  Position statements from Stakeholders and Questions from the Audience

17.15  Rapporteur: Summarizing results  Download the pdf-file

17.30  End of Day One

18.00  Drinks, Reception
sponsored by Adobe opens a new window, HP opens a new window, Microsoft opens a new window, Nokia opens a new window, Oracle opens a new window, SAP opens a new window

Day 2 – Wednesday, 4 June 2008

09.15  Review of Day One – Gill Whitney

09.30  The Role of Standardization in Public Policy,
Key-note address by Malcolm Harbour – MEP

            Session Three: Conformity assessment systems and schemes for accessibility requirements
Co-Chairs: Cristina Rodríguez-Porrero CEN/BT WG 185ETSI_STF_333_Open_Conference_Pres.pdf and Oscar Querol CENELEC/BT WG 101-5

09.45  Presentations by the CEN/CENELEC Project Team experts of their draft report  Download the pdf-file

11.00  Coffee break

11.30  Position statements from Stakeholders and Questions from the Audience

12.45  Rapporteur: Summarizing results

13.00  Lunch

            Session Four: What happens next? – Summary of initial results and way forward
Chair - Gill Whitney, DATSCG

14.30  Presentation by ETSI/TC HF and CEN/CENELEC experts on Actions Required to Progress the Work

15.15  Panel Discussion by representatives of the stakeholder groups on their requirements

16.15  Time table for starting up phase 2 and closure of the conference

16.30  End of Day Two

 

 

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