AU 2030: Global Disability Policy, Technology, and EducaLon Project Highlights POWERFUL NETWORK OF LIKE-‐MINDED UNIVERSITIES: •  ConsorLum of 19 universiLes in US and Southeast Asia focused on disability policy, yielding faculty research and teaching collaboraMon. •  University of Malaya hosts our regional oﬃce and we are building a themaLc network on Disability and Public Policy within the ASEAN University Network. •  Outreach partners providing tremendous opportuniLes for student placements and research: Asia Paciﬁc Development Center on Disability; InternaMonal Council for EducaMon of People with Visual Impairment; Southeast Asia Ministers of EducaMon OrganizaMon; Global IniMaMve for Inclusive ICTs (G3ICT). Issue Overview More than 1 billion people in the world live with some form of disability (WHO, 2011). The Asia-‐Paciﬁc region includes more than half of humanity; it has one of the highest levels of disability and poverty in the world (UNESCAP, 2013). When the UN Millennium Development Goals were adopted to aOempt poverty eradicaMon by 2015, they made no menMon of disability issues. Fortunately, the ﬁrst human rights treaty of the 21st Century, the United NaMons ConvenMon on the Rights of Persons with DisabiliMes (CRPD), entered into force in 2006. 159 countries have signed and 151 have raMﬁed the CRPD, creaMng a comprehensive global framework to “promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabiliMes” (CRPD, ArMcle 1). UNESCAP has also developed the “Incheon Strategy to ‘Make the Right Real’ for Persons with DisabiliMes in Asia and the Paciﬁc” adopted by all Asia-‐Paciﬁc countries. •  Convened 4th IDPP Annual MeeLng in August, hosted by University of Malaya with 80 parMcipants from US and globally. Included digital storytelling and inclusive educaMon wo rksh o p s; In tern aMo n al Ad vi so ry Bo ard MeeMn g; MulMstakeholder Roundtable on Inclusive EducaMon co-‐ sponsored by Microso> and G3ICT. CULTIVATING DISABILITY POLICY LEADERS: •  Graduated 9 students with disabiliLes from AU’s ﬁrst completely online program: SIS Master of InternaMonal Aﬀairs in ComparaMve and InternaMonal Disability Policy. •  IDPP students and staﬀ have served as oﬃcial rapporteurs at UN headquarters for annual CRPD Conference of States ParMes since 2010. •  Fall 2014 AU Senior Capstone Seminar on “Global ‘Grand Challenge’ of Disability and Development” Supported by grants from The Nippon Founda5on totaling approximately $5 million USD to date. AU Aﬃliated Faculty Project Summary Forging a cross-‐campus partnership between CAS, SIS, SPA, SPExS, and WCL with the AU InsLtute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) to create a suite of educaMonal oﬀerings at the undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and execuMve levels, along with a collaboraMve research and outreach program, focused on disability policy analysis, accessibility, assisMve technology and universal design. •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  Derrick L. Cogburn, SIS/IDPP (SubmiOer) Sarah Irvine Belson, SETH/CASS (SubmiOer) NaneOe Levinson, SIS Louis Goodman, SIS Robert Dinerstein, WCL Amitav Acharya, SIS/ ASEAN Studies Center Pek Koon Heng-‐Blackburn, SIS/ASEAN Studies Center Mary Hansen, CAS Kara Reynolds, CAS External Faculty •  •  •  •  •  Marilyn Arnone, Syracuse University Jennifer Ellis, University of Tennessee at ChaOanooga Alan Foley, Syracuse University Beth Haller, Towson University Victor Pineda, University of California – Berkeley InternaLonal Faculty Contact Derrick L. Cogburn, ExecuLve Director Associate Professor, School of InternaMonal Service InsLtute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) 4000 Brandywine St. N.W., Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20016 dcogburn@american.edu -‐ hNp://idppglobal.org •  •  •  •  •  •  Sharifah Alhabshi, University of Malaya Izlin BinM Ismail, University of Malaya Rohana BinM Jani, University of Malaya Irwanto, University of Indonesia Sriprapha Petcharameseree, Mahidol University Meng Ee Wong, Nanyang Technological University