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Hiroshi Kawamura

Hiroshi Kawamura

Past President and Board member of the DAISY Consortium, Japan
Panel speaker:

Parallel session 7 - UNDESA-UNESCO Forum: Inclusion of Disability in the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda

Mr Hiroshi Kawamura is a founder and a former President and Board member of the DAISY Consortium, Japan

He contributed to the Section of Libraries for the Blind/International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

He was serving as Disability Caucus Focal Point to coordinate the Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis for the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

He developed an international close collaboration network of persons with disabilities including physical, cognitive, intellectual or psycho-social disabilities, a network of users, distributers and missionaries of DAISY. He has developed DAISY focal points in many developing countries as the Manager of the DAISY for All Project, 2003-2008, which includes the on-going HIV/AIDS resource manual development in accessible multimedia in 11 official languages in South Africa.

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