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Dear Sir/ Madam

General Notification of the 2019 II(Innovation&Inclusion) Forum
26~27 November 2019, Busan, Korea

The Rehabilitation International Korea (RI KOREA) sincerely thanks to your continuous interest and support to various conferences and events each year. This time, I have the honor to let you know that 2019 II Forum(Innovation and Inclusion Forum, hereinafter as II Forum) which will be held in conjunction with 2019 Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities(GITC) as an associated event of the ASEAN-Korea commemorative summit from 25(Mon) to 29(Fri) November 2019 in Busan, Korea.

II Forum is an advanced one of previous IT Forum. For the IT forum in the past, we mainly focused on IT related and targeted topics, sharing status and strategies. However, we have considered that it would be more worthwhile to discuss not only IT related issues but also disability inclusive topics as diverse stakeholders from various departments of each country attend the forum. Thus, during the II Forum this year, we are going to deal with broader topics that involve Incheon Strategy and statistics in addition to sharing good cases pertaining to IT.

For more information, please refer to the program outline and time table below.
II Forum overview
○ Title: 2019 II(Innovation&Inclusive) Forum
○ Date: Nov. 25~29 (Same as GITC schedule)
 - Forum: Nov. 26(TUE) 09:30~17:30
        - Workshop: Nov. 27(WED) 9:00~12:00
※The overall schedule for GITC & II Forum will be Nov. 25~29, so the participants are recommended to be present at the venue from 25(Mon) to 29(Fri).
○ Location: Busan
○ Participants: About 100 government officials, experts, and the DPO persons concerned from 24 countries.
○ Language: English
○ Main Contents: The significance and future objectives of statistics for Incheon Strategy

Along with GITC for youth, the chaperones (the representatives of each country) are recommended to attend following programs(II Forum, workshop, etc.), while youth participants attend IT challenge or training. The venue for II Forum, workshop and the overall is same as GITC venue (Pukyong National University, Busan).

We hope you to have a great network and share diverse knowledge and experiences on disability and IT issues during the forum. We look forward to your positive response and meeting you in Busan in November. We greatly appreciate your consideration.

      For the participating countries, we are going to ask for the following data soon.
1) Data of each country’s status, result or policy in relation to preliminary rounds of the GITC
- Designated participants: The representative of each country
- Target session/topic: Session 2 of the II Forum
- Utilization plan: To share best practices of participating countries, overall analysis and presentation of the result.
2) Presentational materials of special speakers regarding Incheon Strategy
- Designated participants: Special guests or speakers
- Target session/topic: Session 1(topic presentation of the II Forum), workshop session
- Utilization plan: To utilize as reference materials for the forum and the workshop.
※Required materials will be notified individually soon.

Should you have any questions related to the forum, please contact us by e-mail or phone number below.

Dahye, Lee : Program Specialist
International Cooperation and Development Department of RI Korea
The secretariat of RIAP and APDF
Tel.: +82 - 70 - 4012 – 7001  / Cellphone: +82 - 10 - 7501 - 7520
Fax: +82 – 2 – 3472 – 3592
E-mail:  rikorea2012@gmail.com / apdfkorea2013@gmail.com