[CEUD-ICT] CEN Workshop Agreement on Curriculum for Training ICT Professionals in Universal Design

[Donal J. Rice]

All,

The CEUD is leading out on a European standard called a CEN Workshop
Agreement on curriculum guidelines for training ICT professionals in
Universal Design.  The kick-off meeting in Brussels on 27 May.  Details
below.  I am also talking to NSDA about the possibility of setting up an
Irish shadow working group for this Workshop Agreement, although this is
not yet confirmed.  I will keep the list posted on this.


Registration is via the CEN website at the URL below.


more information follows:


The goal of this workshop is to specify and recommend a curriculum for
training ICT professionals in the Universal Design approach. The Workshop
originates from earlier work in the EU-funded IDCnet [1] and DfA at eInclusion
[2] projects.


Universal Design (UD) aims to design Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) products and services so they can be used by everyone
without the need for specialised solutions or adaptations regardless of a
person’s age, environment, ability or disability. A crucial part of the
approach is compliance with relevant standards and guidelines. It aims to
develop technology that is robust, can be used on different platforms or in
different contexts of use, as well as being usable by users of differing
ages, sizes, abilities and disabilities.

The UD curriculum to be specified by this CEN Workshop shall identify the
knowledge and skills that are necessary to successfully implement the UD
approach in an ICT development process.
The training guidelines shall reflect the special training needs of ICT
professionals, the conditions and context of training for professionals,
and the different needs of different professional roles in the ICT
industry.
The kick-off meeting of the workshop will take place on 27 May 2009 at the:

CEN-CENELEC Meeting Centre
room Newton A
avenue Marnix 17, 4th Floor
1000 Brussels
Full details of the CEN Workshop and how to register are available on the
CEN website:
http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/sectors/sectors/isss/workshops/ws-ud-prof-curriculum.asp



Likely time and resource commitment would be 3 meetings over the next 15
months - see the full Business Plan on the CEN website for more details.
An alternative way to participate would be to take part in a shadow group
here in Ireland and make recommendations through that process.

Please let me know if you are interested in participating in this work.

Kind regards,
Dónal Rice
Senior Design Advisor, ICT
Centre for Excellence in Universal Design
NDA
25 Clyde Road,
Dublin 4
Ireland
http://www.universaldesign.ie
email: djrice at nda.ie
Tel: + 353 (0)1 608 0430

[1] http://www.idcnet.info/home
[2] http://www.dfaei.org/
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