Remember our
Final MEDICI Conference “Digital Inclusion for All”
DAY 1 – January 26, 2021 |
Opening Plenary and Keynote: “Digital Inclusion in the current context, from diversity to resilience”
June Lowery- Kingston, Head of Unit, Accessibility, Multilingualism and “Safer Internet” (CNECT.G.3), European Commission Ellen Helsper, Professor in Socio-Digital Inequalities at the Media and Communications Department London School of Economics (LSE), UK |
Roundtable: “Leaving no one behind – The role of Digital Inclusion in building inclusive society”
Carmen Cárdenas, Coordinator of the Changing Mentalities Programme of the Spanish Red Cross Employment Plan. Spain Watch the session (from min.50) |
Roundtable: “Setting the Scene – National and Regional Public Policy for a more Digital Inclusive Europe”
Luísa Ribeiro Lopes, Coordinator of the Axis for Inclusion of the National Digital Skills Initiative INCODE.2030, Portugal Tania Maamary , Digital Inclusion Coordinator for the Brussels Capital Region. BRIC, Brussels Regional Informatics Center Sandra Spjuth, Regional Digitalization Coordinator, Region Örebro County, Sweden Adam Micklewthwaite , Director of Digital Social Inclusion, Good Things Foundation, UK |
DAY 2, January 27, 2021 |
Keynote: “MEDICI Knowledge Community – Diversity and Inclusion”
Anna Tsiboukli, Head of Education Department, KETHEA, Greece Remos Armaos , Head of Professional Education, KETHEA, Greece Stefania Aceto, Project Manager and Senior Researcher, UNIR – Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spai |
Roundtable: “Challenges of Digital Inclusion among youth, unemployed and migrants”
Bartosz Kosiński, Project Team Supervisor MERITUM Association for Non – Formal Education, Poland. (Case: GO-PRO) Raúl Pérez González, Department Technician, Fundación Segretariado Gitano, Spain (Case: #Empleando Digital) Anna Schippa: Co-founder Forma.azione, Italy (Case: #Gemma) |
Roundtable: “Not just words: how older people and people with disabilities can become better integrated in the digital world”
Henrique Gil , Senior Teacher Age Comm –Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal ( Practice: Peak & Neuronation) Gosia Kwiatkowska, Senior LecturerCo-Director RIX Research & Media, University of East London (Practice: RIX Wiki) Ineke Schuurman, Researcher Center for Computational Linguistics, KU Leuven, Belgium (Practice: Able to Include) Pedro Beitia, Ede Foundation coordinator, EDE Foundation, Bilbao, Spain |
Workshop: “Leaving no one behind – Vulnerable groups and their complex needs”
Yvonne Anderson, Co-Founder, Mind Of My Own , UK Jill Thorburn, Co-Founder, Mind Of My Own , UK Victoria Mandefield, Co- Founder/Director, Solinum, France João Baracho, Chief Executive Officer at CDI – Center for Digital Inclusion, Portugal |
DAY 3, January 28, 2021 |
Webinar: “Covid-19: identified practices dealing with the pandemic”
David Drabble, Senior Researcher and Consultant, the Tavistock Institute, UK Jean Guo, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Konexio, France |
Keynote: “Project results: evidence behind the practices, gaps and areas of improvement”
Joseph David Cullen, Medici Project’s Scientific Director, Principal Associate, The Tavistock Institute, UK |
Roundtable: “Digital Inclusion and the new normal: sustainability in the post Covid-19 times”
Daniel Burgos,, Vice-rector for International Research, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja – UNIR Achilles Kameas, Chair of the Board at ALL DIGITAL, Greece June Lowery- Kingston, Head of Unit, Accessibility, Multilingualism and “Safer Internet” (CNECT.G.3), European Commission Guillem Porras: Deputy President, Somos Digital, Spain |