Author: Silvia Favalli

Digital strategies and disability law and policy

Written by Silvia Favalli on May 27, 2020. Posted in Uncategorized.

An overview of the digital strategies developed at the international, European and Italian level. To date, focused digital strategies have been developed at the local, regional and global level, where promoting the full inclusion and active participation of persons with disabilities in the information society emerges as a core policy goal. At the international level, the United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process 2003-2005 is considered the first global attempt to translate human rights for the development and the global governance of the information society. Following...

Who can fill the digital divide gap?

Written by Silvia Favalli on May 20, 2020. Posted in digital accessibility, Uncategorized.

The role of States, private entities and individual users. Digital media generate new opportunities, but also new challenges for persons with disabilities while producing an impact on some core human rights – i.e. freedom of expression and opinion, privacy, data protection, human dignity and autonomy. Such new challenges depend on either the shortages of the current legal and policy framework either on individual users’ behaviours online. Hence, one of the peculiarities of the digital environment is that the value of an online platform largely comes from the social networking provided...

Why digital media?

Written by Silvia Favalli on May 5, 2020. Posted in Uncategorized.

Digital media, social inclusion and scientific knwoledge. Digital media have acquired a primary role in individual and community life. They both represent an unprecedented opportunity to actively participate and be fully included in society for vulnerable groups at risk of social exclusion, such as persons with disabilities, and a crucial means to provide information to all citizens. Moreover, the use of digital technology to create augmented reality and to make a storytelling process of the scientific knowledge also represents for the scientific community a new way to interact and communicate...