Key readings

• Broadband Commission, G3ict, IDA, ITU, Microsoft, the Telecentre.org Foundation and UNESCO (2013) The ICT opportunity for a disability-inclusive development framework: synthesis report of the ICT consultation in support of the High Level Meeting on Disability and Development of the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly
• Burger, D., Tabeling, B., Manant, M., and Seiffert, M-D. (eds) (2012) Benefits and Costs of e-Accessibility, G3ict
• Carey, K. (2012) Digital Switchover and Impairment, a humanITy Paper for the CTO
• The Center on Technology and Disability (CTD), in partnership with CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) Digital Accessibility Toolkit, Washington DC: COSN
• Centre for Internet & Society and G3ict (2012) Web Accessibility Policy Making: An International Perspective, G3ict, The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with The Hans Foundation
• Centre for Internet & Society and G3ict (2011) Universal Service for Persons with Disabilities: a global survey of policy interventions and good practices, G3ict, The Centre for Internet & Society in collaboration with The Hans Foundation.
• e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities. A joint ITU/G3ict Toolkit for Policy Makers Implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Geneva: ITU, G3ict, GAID
• Eid, N. (2016) Disability and Bridging the Digital Divide: ICT Accessibility and and Assistive Technology for People of All Abilities, Ruh Global Communications
• Ellis, K. (2011) Embracing learners with disability: web 2.0, access and insight, Telecommunications Journal of Australia. 61 (2), 30.1 to 30.11. http://tja.org.au.
• Goggin, G. and Newell, C. (eds) (2006) Disability, identity and interdependence: ICTs and new social forms, Special Issue of Information, Communication and Society, 9(3).
• Gould, M., Leblois, A., Bianchi, F.C., Montenegro, V. and Studer, E. (2012) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2012 ICT Accessibility Progress Report, G3ict, DPI.
• ITU and G3ICT (2012) Making Mobile Phones and Services Accessible for Persons with Disabilities, Geneva: ITU (lead authors: Narasimhan, N. and Leblois, A.)
• ITU and G3ICT (2014) Model ICT Accessibility Policy Report, Geneva: ITU (lead author Mandla Msimang)
• Lynch, P., Singal, N., and Francis, G. (2021) EdTech forLearners with Disabilities in Primary School Settings in LMICs: A Systematic Literature Review. [Working Paper]. EdTech Hub. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4348995.
• Narasimhan, N. (ed.) (2010) e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities, based upon the ITU-G3ict a-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities, Geneva: ITU, G3ict, The Centre for Internet & Society, in co-operation with The Hans Foundation.
• Office of the United Nations Commissioner on Human Rights (2006) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Ratcliffe, K.T., Rao, K., Skouge, J.R. and Peter, J. (2012) Navigating the currents of change: technology, inclusion, and access for people with disabilities in the Pacific, Information Technology for Development, 18(3), 209-225.
• Thompson, S. (2018) Mobile Technology and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, 
  K4D Emerging Issues Report. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies, for DFID.
• Tinder Foundation and Vodafone (2015) Mobile: Helping to Close the Digital Divide, London: Tinder Foundation (Author: James Richardson)
• UNESCAP (2017) Building Disability-Inclusive Societies in Asia and the Pacific: Assessing Progress on the Incheon Strategy, Bangkok: UNESCAP.
• UNESCO (2009) Empowering Persons with Disabilities through ICTs, Paris: UNESCO.
• UNESCO (2011), Accessible ICTs and Personalized Learning for Students with Disabilities: A Dialogue among Educators, Industry, Government and Civil Society, Paris: UNESCO
• UNESCO (2013) UNESCO Global Report. Opening New Avenues for Empowerment: ICTs to Access Information and Knowledge for Persons with Disabilities, Paris: UNESCO
• UNESCO (2014) Model Policy for Inclusive ICTs in Education for Persons with Disabilities, Paris: UNESCO (with European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education and G3ICT)
• UNESCO (2016) Digital Empowerment: Access to Information and Knowledge Using ICTs for Persons with Disabilities, UNESCO: Paris
• United Spinal Association (2015) Disability Etiquette: tips on interacting with people with disabilities, New York: United Spinal Association
• Vicente Cuervo, M.R. and López Menéndez, A.J. (2010) A multidimensional analysis of the disability digital divide: some evidence of Internet use, The Information Society, 26(1), 48-64
• Watkins, A., Tokareva, N., and Turner, M. (2011),  ICTs in Education for People with Disabilities – Review of Innovative Practices, IITE ‘ICTs in Education: Best Practices’ series,  Moscow: UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education.

Some of my relevant publications

• Unwin,  T. (2011) ICTs and disability in the Commonwealth, in Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book 2011, London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 226-229.
• Godfred Bonnah Nkansah and Tim Unwin (2010) The contribution of ICTs to the delivery of special educational needs in Ghana: practices and potential, Information Technology for Development, 16(3), 191-211.
• Unwin, T. (2005) Reflections on ability: the use of ICTs to support people with disabilities in poor countries, in: Milward-Oliver, G. (ed.), Maitland+20 – Fixing the Missing Link, Bradford on Avon: Anima, 165-180 (also published in Japanese by the ITU Association of Japan, 2006, 109-118 )