Why AI Ethics Should Focus on Sustainable and Transformative Inclusion for All

11th Conference of the States Parties to CRPD, June 12, 12:30 pm — 1:45 pm UN Headquarters Conference Room 12, New York, NY 10017 Despite recent advances in assistive technology and inclusive planning, people with disabilities and older persons continue to face economic, physical, and political discrimination and exclusion. Social and physical barriers too often prevent people with disabilities and older persons from fully enjoying their rights to employment, education, health, and independence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one avenue that could help break down the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from …
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Why AI Ethics Should Focus on Sustainable and Transformative Inclusion for All

June 11, 2018

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Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, COSP, COSP 11, CRPD, Disability, inclusion, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations

World Enabled works with UN to create more accessible and inclusive cities for persons with disabilities

February 6, 2016

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A global United Nations meeting last October 28, 2015 brought together more than 60 urban planning and disability experts, including our very own Dr. Victor Pineda, president and founder of World Enabled. In those three days, experts discussed solutions to make urban development inclusive of and accessible to the world’s one billion persons with disabilities, many of whom live in cities. The concluded three-day ‘DESA Forum on Disability Inclusion and Accessible Urban Development’ aimed to support States and related stakeholders in jointly advancing accessible and inclusive urban development. It resulted …
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Tags: accessible, DESA, Disability, Habitat III, Inclusive Cities, UN, UN-DESA, world enabled

Poverty, Disability and Social Exclusion

August 10, 2015

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Photo credits: The man and the sea. Pepito Frias Photo, 2003.

by: Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda Over the past 30 years, studies conducted in various countries, such as Japan, Lebanon, Jordan, India, South Africa, among others have shown that stigma and prejudice is often the result of a lack of knowledge of and awareness about people with disability which exists at all levels—from the family to the community to decision makers at the highest levels. Such stigma and prejudice leads to social marginalization and lack of equal access to educational, employment and social support mechanisms that result in profound poverty for …
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Tags: development, Disability, MDG, Poverty, Social Exclusion, UN, UNDP, United Nations, World Bank

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