Library Services Hiroshi started his professional career at the University of Tokyo Library in Japan to ensure equal access to library services for students with disabilities on campus. He chaired the Section of Libraries for the Blind/International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) prior to the foundation of the DAISY Consortium in 1996. From 1996 through 1998, he went around 5 continents for world field testing of DAISY to encourage participation of blind and low vision people in the standard development process. World Summit on the Information Society and CRPD Hiroshi continued to keep his concern on the participation of persons with print disabilities and people in the south in standard development and its implementation throughout the 3 years process of United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003-2005. He was serving as WSIS Disability Caucus Focal Point and coordinated the Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis. He sees a synergy between implementation process of the WSIS plan of actions and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and coordinated two international conferences on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) of persons with disabilities in Phuket 2007 and 2009 in collaboration with Senator Monthian Buntan. In addition, he coordinated the Workshop on Accessibility Guidelines and Standards for Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio 2007. Disaster Risk Reduction of Persons with Disabilities Hiroshi has been engaged in research on DRR with special reference to persons with disabilities through knowledge based enabling methods taking advantage of accessible multimedia in DAISY format last 10 years. Recently he specially focused on social isolation of persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders and psycho-social disabilities as most vulnerable people at disasters and developed a US-Japan collaboration network on this issue. Urakawa Town located in one of the most frequent earthquake zone in Japan has been identified as the research field of action research on Tsunami Preparedness development of some 150 persons with psycho-social disabilities and residents at large. Knowledge-based
Library Services Hiroshi started his professional career at the University of Tokyo Library in Japan to ensure equal access to library services for students with disabilities on campus. He chaired the Section of Libraries for the Blind/International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) prior to the foundation of the DAISY Consortium in 1996. From 1996 through 1998, he went around 5 continents for world field testing of DAISY to encourage participation of blind and low vision people in the standard development process. World Summit on the Information Society and CRPD Hiroshi continued to keep his concern on the participation of persons with print disabilities and people in the south in standard development and its implementation throughout the 3 years process of United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003-2005. He was serving as WSIS Disability Caucus Focal Point and coordinated the Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis. He sees a synergy between implementation process of the WSIS plan of actions and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and coordinated two international conferences on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) of persons with disabilities in Phuket 2007 and 2009 in collaboration with Senator Monthian Buntan. In addition, he coordinated the Workshop on Accessibility Guidelines and Standards for Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio 2007. Disaster Risk Reduction of Persons with Disabilities Hiroshi has been engaged in research on DRR with special reference to persons with disabilities through knowledge based enabling methods taking advantage of accessible multimedia in DAISY format last 10 years. Recently he specially focused on social isolation of persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders and psycho-social disabilities as most vulnerable people at disasters and developed a US-Japan collaboration network on this issue. Urakawa Town located in one of the most frequent earthquake zone in Japan has been identified as the research field of action research on Tsunami Preparedness development of some 150 persons with psycho-social disabilities and residents at large. Knowledge-based