16 NOVEMBER: USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ENHANCE ACCESSIBILITY - OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MUST SERVE EVERYONE - EVENT REPORT

Tech companies and persons with disabilities gathered on the 16th November in Vienna to debate how not to leave persons with disabilities behind technological breakthroughs.

The event “Using Artificial Intelligence to enhance accessibility - Opportunities and risks of emerging technologies for persons with disabilities” gathered representatives of the European disability movement and representatives of Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Essl Foundation and MyHandicap with one aim: ensuring new technological trends improve the lives of persons with disabilities.

17 NOVEMBER: BOARD THEMATIC CONFERENCE: STATISTICS AND DISABILITY IN THE EU

About the Conference

Disaggregated data by disability is central to delivering policy change, targeting resources effectively and ensuring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is monitored. Strong and reliable data on disability will also fulfilled the promise of the 2030 Agenda to “leave no one behind”. Accurate data and statistics on disability are therefore crucial to in identifying and addressing the barriers faced by persons with disabilities (CRPD, article 31).

The European Disability Forum strongly believes in the added value of disaggregated data collection by disability. By collecting data according to different types of disabilities, we get can gain a better understanding of whether existing policies and programmes are effective for all groups, or indeed whether they fail to address the specific needs of persons with a particular type of disability. This can in turn lead the way to more targeted and appropriate policy responses.