Young disability advocate calls for greater participation in ICT

On 22 September at UN Headquarters, UNICEF and The Guardian news organization, brought together roughly 200 attendees from a cross-section of international NGOs, policymakers, academics and the private sector for an event entitled: “Development without equality? Creating the world we need post-2015”.

Kartik Sawhney, a member of the Youth Council of the Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities (www.gpcwd.org) and student at Stanford University studying computer science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, spoke during the panel discussion on “How innovation can help create the world we need”. He highlighted that persons with disabilities are not only consumers, but developers of innovative solutions. He further called for greater opportunities for persons with disabilities to be involved in innovation and technology development.

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