Accessible Technology and the Developing World

This book brings together a unique combination of contributors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds from both the developing and developed world. Together, they present a unique and much needed review of this critical and growing area of work.

Michael Ashley Stein, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Executive Director,Jonathan Lazar, College of Information Studies (the iSchool), Professor

Professor Michael Ashley Stein is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School since 2005. Considered one of the world's leading experts on disability law and policy, Dr. Stein participated in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; works with disabled peoples' organizations and non-governmental organizations around the world; actively consults with governments on their disability laws and policies; advises an array of UN bodies and national human rights institutions; and has brought landmark disability rights litigation globally.

Jonathan Lazar, PhD, LLM is a professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland. Dr Lazar joined the iSchool in 2019, after 19 years as a professor of computer and information sciences at Towson University, where he served as director of the information systems program for 14 years.