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Call for Abstracts _ Disability and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia

The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre is hosting an online conference on 'Disability, Technology and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia' on March 8, 2024, with a call for abstracts due by February 2, 2024. The conference aims to explore the intersection of digital technology and disability rights in Southeast Asia, focusing on themes such as digital citizenship, inclusion, and inequalities. Researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts that contribute to understanding the challenges and opportunities for disabled individuals in the context of rapid digitalization in the region.

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Call for Abstracts _ Disability and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia

The Sydney Southeast Asia Centre is hosting an online conference on 'Disability, Technology and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia' on March 8, 2024, with a call for abstracts due by February 2, 2024. The conference aims to explore the intersection of digital technology and disability rights in Southeast Asia, focusing on themes such as digital citizenship, inclusion, and inequalities. Researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts that contribute to understanding the challenges and opportunities for disabled individuals in the context of rapid digitalization in the region.

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Call for Abstracts | Disability and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia

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Sydney Southeast Asia Centre <[email protected]> Sen, 15 Jan 2024 pukul 05.01
Balas ke: [email protected]
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Call for Abstracts


Disability, Technology and Digital Inclusion in
Southeast Asia

Disability, Technology and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia


One day online conference

Date: 8 March, 2024


Time: 11am - 6pm AEDT
Abstracts submission closing date: 2 February, 2024

Organizers:
Kuansong Victor ZHUANG, Gerard GOGGIN, Jennifer SMITH-MERRY

Sponsored by:

Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney


Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Asian Communication Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University

Asia has been widely noted as the world’s largest market in digital technology. While
researchers have focused on the efforts of Japan, South Korea, and China, Southeast Asia
has been on the rise for the past 5-10 years, especially attracting attention with the
prominence of digital platform companies such as Gojek (headquartered in Indonesia)
and Grab (Singapore HQ). These digital platform companies have established a foothold
not only in their home countries (Indonesia and Malaysia) but also expanded across the
region. Such extensive digitalization of society is mirrored by a longer historical trajectory
of Southeast Asian countries adopting the smart and technology as enablers for
economic growth of development, for instance in Singapore (Goggin and Zhuang
2022) and Malaysia (Bunnell 2015, 2004), just to name two.

We juxtapose this with the emergence of disability as an area of considerable research,


social, and policy importance across Southeast Asia, underpinned by the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and regional initiatives like the
Incheon Strategy and the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan. Notably, the third Asian-Pacific
Decade of Persons with Disabilities 2023-2032 was convened in Indonesia and
culminated in the Jakarta Declaration. Across Southeast Asia, we see vibrant disabled
communities and research appearing, as well as various government attempts at
achieving disability inclusion. In particular, the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan puts forth key
recommendations to support the development of inclusive ICTs. AEC 12 highlights the
importance of “Promot[ing] smart city projects that have inclusive infrastructure and
technologies that are accessible to urban dwellers with disabilities”, while AEC 13 notes
the need to “Encourage inclusive ICT by improving its accessibility and usability for
persons with disabilities and by upgrading digital skill sets of developers and users to
have a more digitally empowered and connected ASEAN people and
stakeholders” (ASEAN 2019). Accordingly, digital inclusion for people with disability is a
high priority area for policymakers, industry, technology designs, institutions (such as
education, law, and others), and civil society organizations, even as digital forms of
governance are increasingly prevalent.

We bring together these developments – the extensive digitalization of society and the
use of technology in all aspects of life (especially with disability), the embrace of disability
rights globally, and the pursuit of digital inclusion by Southeast Asian nation states – into
productive conversation. While digital technology is a crucial area for realizing goals of
social and economic participation as well as rights, the practices of digital inclusion are
however not uniformly spread among people with disability across the region; what some
have described as digital divides and digital inequalities (Goggin 2017; Dobransky and
Hargittai 2016; Hargittai and Hsieh 2013). There have been estimated to be more than 90
million people in Southeast Asia with disability, and for many, assistive technology is a key
part of their lives. Importantly, many disabled people are not able to fully participate in
society on an equal basis with others and the WHO has called for government action and
research to promote inclusion.

Importantly, research focused on the intersections of technology, digital inclusion, and


disability across Southeast Asia is very much nascent. Research and policy frameworks,
exemplars, and models relating to disability and digital inclusion still largely derive from a
small set of influential jurisdictions, including the US, UK, and Europe.

In this call for abstracts, we invite research across disciplines that builds on disability
studies’ core principles. Submissions may either focus on Southeast Asia as a region,
and/or specific Southeast Asian nation-states. Submissions may consider focusing on
addressing (but not limited to) any of the following themes and issues:

Digital Citizenship
Digital Inclusion\
Digital Justice
Digital Governance
Digital Inequalities
Digital Transactions
Assistive Technology
Political Economy of technology and disability

Instructions:
Click below to email a 300-word abstract, excluding references by 2 Feb 2024 with the
subject line “Disability, Technology and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia”

Abstract Submission

Notes:

Any queries should also be directed to [email protected]


Please also state if you have any accessibility requirements.
The conference will be zoom only.
Select presentations will be invited to submit full papers after the conference for a
journal special issue (TBC).
This event is funded and supported by the SSEAC Collaborative Research
Grant, Disability and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia.

References

ASEAN. 2019. ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025: Mainstreaming the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat.

Bunnell, Tim. 2004. Malaysia, modernity and the multimedia super corridor: A critical
geography of intelligent landscapes. Routledge.

---. 2015. "Smart city returns." Dialogues in Human Geography 5 (1): 45-48.

Dobransky, Kerry, and Eszter Hargittai. 2016. "Unrealized potential: Exploring the digital
disability divide." Poetics 58: 18-28.

Goggin, Gerard. 2017. "Disability and digital inequalities: Rethinking digital divides with
disability theory." In Theorizing Digital Divides, edited by Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W.
Muschert, 63-74. New York: Routledge.

Goggin, Gerard, and Kuansong Victor Zhuang. 2022. "Disability as Smart Equality: Inclusive
Technology in a Digitally Advanced Nation." In Digital Inclusion: Enhancing Vulnerable
People’s Social Inclusion and Welfare?, edited by Panayiota Tsatsou, 257-275. London:
Palgrave.
Hargittai, Eszter, and Yu-li Patrick Hsieh. 2013. "Digital Inequality." In The Oxford Handbook
of Internet Studies, edited by William H Dutton, 129-150. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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