Emerging Challenges and Future Potentials for Persons with Disabilities in the Digital Era

This book analyses new challenges and future potential of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) on the protection of human rights for persons with disabilities. Its
main ambition is to identify a new global and transnational governance able to determine
the proper legislative framework to guarantee both inclusive digital equality and access to
ICTs’ advantages to persons with disabilities without undue violation of their fundamental
human rights. For this purpose, it collects some of the research papers presented by scholars
and stakeholders who joined the “BIDS Project” network during a dedicated international
workshop, organised in Pavia on May 20-21, 2019.
The book is divided into three sections. The first one addresses the relevant legal and policy
framework adopting a multilevel approach (encompassing the international, European and
national levels). The second one focuses on new challenges related to accessibility, human
dignity and privacy concerns emerging from the widespread diffusion of digital technologies
among persons with disabilities. Finally, the third one collects best practices by civil society,
presented by members of representatives’ association of disabled, academics, and private
sector experts in ICTs, aimed at achieving a ‘digital inclusive society’ for and with persons
with disabilities, in compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted
by the United Nations.