<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">CFA: Disability, Technology and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Organizers: Kuansong Victor ZHUANG, Gerard GOGGIN, Jennifer SMITH-MERRY <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Sponsored by: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney <br>Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Asian Communication Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Online only<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">8 March 2024, 11am to 6pm AEST <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">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 </span><span lang="EN-GB">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 </span><span lang="EN-GB">(Goggin and Zhuang 2022)</span><span lang="EN-GB"> and Malaysia </span><span lang="EN-GB">(Bunnell 2015, 2004)</span><span lang="EN-GB">, just to name two.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>We juxtapose this with the emergence of disability as an </span><span lang="EN-GB">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. </span>In particular, the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan puts forth key recommendations to support the development of inclusive ICTs. <span lang="EN-US">AEC 12 highlights the importance of “</span><span lang="EN-GB">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” </span><span lang="EN-US">(ASEAN 2019)</span><span lang="EN-US">. Accordingly, </span><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span><span lang="EN-GB">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 </span><span lang="EN-GB">(Goggin 2017; Dobransky and Hargittai 2016; Hargittai and Hsieh 2013)</span><span lang="EN-GB">. 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 3pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">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: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Digital Citizenship<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Digital Inclusion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Digital Justice <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Digital Governance <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Digital Inequalities <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Digital Transactions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Assistive Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Political Economy of technology and disability <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Instructions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Email a 300-word abstract, excluding references to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> by <b><u>2 Feb 2024</u></b> with the subject line “Disability, Technology and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Any queries should also be directed to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; 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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">The conference will be zoom only. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; line-height: 16.866667px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Select presentations will be invited to submit full papers after the conference for a journal special issue (TBC). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">This event is funded and supported by<span class="apple-converted-space"> the </span>SSEAC Collaborative Research Grant, <i>Disability and Digital Inclusion in Southeast Asia</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">References<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="EndNoteBibliography" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">ASEAN. 2019. <i>ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025: Mainstreaming the Rights of Persons with Disabilities</i>. 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