is an initiative of the WFD and was first launched in 1958 in Rome, Italy. It is celebrated annually by the global Deaf Community on the last full week of September to commemorate the same month the first World Congress of the WFD was held. IWDeaf is celebrated through various activities by respective Deaf Communities […]
The Bridge CRPD SDGs training initiative – Module 1, in Tanzania, will be held in the city of Dar-es-Salaam from 22nd to 28th July 2019. This is organised by the Tanzania Federation of Disabled People’s Organizations (SHIVYAWATA), African Disability Forum (ADF), International Disability Alliance (IDA) and CBM with support from Inclusion International and World Network […]
With the main theme, “Wake up and do it for yourself: To promote and advance local AT solutions for Southern Africa,” the Southern Africa Assistive Technology EXPO (SAATE) is part of the Assistive Technology Information Mapping Project (AT-Info-Map), a project of the Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD) in partnership with the University of Washington and the African Network for Evidence–to–Action in […]
The International Institute of Knowledge Management takes the pleasure to welcome you to the 4th World Disability & Rehabilitation Conference 2019 (WDRC 2019) which will be held from 07th – 08th November 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. Disability & Rehabilitation Conference 2019 (WDRC 2019) is a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators, industry experts, health and disability advocates. It […]
2019 Assistive Technology and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ATAAC) Conference on advanced technology for people with disabilities, October 15-17, in Zagreb, Croatia. The conference will be streamed online and is available free of cost for professors and their students working in these and related fields, for all three days. The program will be accessible for […]
The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and […]
Achieving the SDGs through innovation, access, and lifelong learning . Africa’s premiere conference for blindness activists and leaders is coming to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The 7th Africa Forum promises to be the largest-ever gathering of the continent’s blindness community. Africa Forum offers unparalleled opportunities to learn, network and weigh in on the future of disability […]
Previously known as the Hope-Mandeville Disability Careers Expo, the 2019 Disability Summit and Career Expo, rolled out by Creative Space Media was the second of its kind and magnitude. Combining a career expo and numerous demonstrations, the two-day event took place on 11 and 12 April 2019 at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg. We are delighted […]
The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) will host an international conference on 1, 2 and 3 October 2019 at the Wits – University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg on the theme, #DisablingNormativities. This is the first call for abstracts, which are due on 28 June 2019. You can submit your abstracts which should be between 250 […]
We are thrilled to announce that the next GREAT Summit will be held this year in Geneva on the 22nd and 23rd August 2019, at WHO HQ. This second GREAT Summit will serve as a global consultation towards the development of a Global Report on Assistive Technology, which was requested by the 71st World Health […]
