IDPP Regional Coordinator Mr. Joni Yulianto will present alongside IDPP partners Dr. Irwanto, Founder and Director of the Center on Disability Studies at Universitas Indonesia and Dr. Ro’fah Mudzakir, Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Disability Studies and Services at State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia at the Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum and Outreach Session from 23-25 March 2013 in Bali, Indonesia.

They will present their jointly-written position paper Political Commitment on the Fulfillment and Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities while advocating for the mainstreaming of disability rights in the post-2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework. As a precursor to the Fourth United Nations High Level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLPEP) Meeting, the session presents a unique opportunity for international CSOs to add their voices as the Panel discusses the future of the MDGs.

IDPP faculty member and Evaluation Committee Co-Chair Dr. Jennifer Ellis is invited to speak at Cengage Learning’s 18th Annual Course Technology Conference from 13–15 March 2013 in San Diego, California. Dr. Ellis will co-present with Ms. Michele Clements, Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Information Technology at the Community College of Baltimore County. Their presentation, “Increase Accessibility in Your Online Courses,” will explore how to make a cyberlearning environment accessible to all users.

Using Blackboard Learn and Collaborate as the model cyberlearning infrastructures, the session will discuss how to make synchronous and asynchronous content accessible, and offer the session’s participants the opportunity to share what steps they have taken toward making their virtual classrooms accessible.