The OEB Boardroom BRD04
Initiatives for Displaced Populations to Own Learning
Date Friday, Dec 2 Time – RoomZille
Education, certification of existing skills and competencies, and introductions to relevant networks can be crucial for successful integration into a host society.
Join this boardroom with a panel of experts to discuss how quality, digital, inclusive, and culturally appropriate content can offer support for displaced populations. Discuss and discover which technologies and modes of delivery fit with challenging circumstances. Also, find out how projects get stakeholders on board; from national and local authorities to businesses, individuals and targeted users.
Moderators
David Banes
Director; Access Technology Evangelist, Consultant working with The Qatar Foundation International for “Build Back Better”, UK
Director of David Banes Access and Inclusion Services and formerly CEO, at the Qatar Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center, David has developed services ensuring the digital inclusion of disabled people. He works across Middle East and Europe to address how access is maintained during periods of technical and social change, seeking to build capacity, linking awareness, policy, technology development and the need for training.
With a background in special needs education and supporting digital inclusion in Europe, he supports emerging access ecosystems promoting cooperation between states, supports development of accesisble technology solutions and content.
Recent work includes a framework for contextualisation of access technology, transference of knowledge across communities and a policy framework to address the rights of people with a disability. His current activity includes educational support for refugees and the disruptive innovation upon the access industry.
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Vincent Zimmer
Co-founder & Managing Director, Kiron Open Higher Education gGmbH, Germany
Vincent Zimmer is a Co-Founder of Kiron Open Higher Education, a blended learning educational platform for refugees. He completed two master’s degree study programmes, “International Economics” at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and “Public Policy and Administration” at the London School of Economics. Vincent Zimmer has a lot of experience in the startup area, and has been already involved in several foundings. Furthermore he worked in a consultancy (Rambøll Management Consulting) and with students in crisis during his time at “Study without borders”. His experiences in the refugees area and a research stay in Istanbul, moved him to found Kiron together with Markus Kressler in 2015.
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Vijay Kumar
Assistant Provost & Director of Academic Computing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA