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Doing the Right Things Right:People with Disabilities in the Labor Market
GLADNET Business Meeting
GLADNET Annual General MeetingNovember 10-11, 2005 - Manama, Bahrain
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Overview of GLADNET
• History• Current Executive Board Members• Current activities
– AGM– GLADMail Network Survey– GLADNET Leadership Operations Manual– Website– Relationship with Cornell University Catherwood Library
• Infobase• Fee for Service Research from Website
• Collaboration with the Arab Region Going Forward
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GLADNET History • Early on, ILO recognized need for vehicle for information
exchange among members• October 1994 – questionnaire sent to disability organizations to
ascertain the need of an organization such as GLADNET • February, 1995 - meeting of what was to become GLADNET
was held at the ILO. It was attended by 53 organizations at their own expense
• 1997 -- GLADNET constituted as an international NGO at its annual general meeting. First elected Chair, Dr. Aldred Neufeldt, University of Calgary, Canada.
• Today, GLADNET has a world-wide network representing a select group that have committed themselves to creating and working for the vitality of a new kind of virtual organization.
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Current GLADNET Executive Board
• Susanne Bruyère, Cornell University, USA (Chairperson)• Edwin deVos (Vice Chair) • Donal McAnaney (Secretary/Treasurer) • Beverley Beckles, National Centre for Persons with Disabilities, Trinidad and
Tobago• Monroe Berkowitz, Rutgers University, USA• Nick Buys, Centre for Human Services, Griffith University, Australia• Edwin de Vos, NIA-TNO, the Netherlands• Hiroshi Kawamura, Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons,
Japan• Stig Larsson, HAREC, Sweden• Donal McAnaney, Rehab Group Roslyn Park, Ireland• Barbara Murray, ILO, Switzerland (ex officio)• Aldred Neufeldt, Community Rehabilitation/Disability Studies Program, Univ. of
Calgary, Canada (Past Chair)• Bob Ransom, ILO, Switzerland (ex officio)• Ilene Zeitzer, Disability Policy Solutions, USA
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Annual General Meetings
• May 29, 1997, Montreal, Canada• August 20-22, 1998, Wanchai, Hong Kong• May 26-29, 1999 International Labour
Organisation (ILO) Geneva, Switzerland• May 25-26, 2000, Washington, D.C., U.S.A • May 16-18, 2001, Kyoto, Japan• December 8-9, 2003 International Labour
Organisation (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland• November 10-11, 2005, Manama, Bahrain
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GLADMail Network Survey• In the fall of 2004, the GLADNET Executive Board
designed a survey to gather input from the GLADNET network about GLADNET activities now and in the future.
• The survey was distributed on October 28, 2004 in anelectronic format to the 618 email addresses on the GLADMail list.
• At the end of this two-week period, a total of 45 respondents of the 618 in the GLADMail network listing (7%).
• The following is a summary of the major themes fromthe information gathered from these survey results.
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GLADMail Network Survey Results
• GLADNET website rated most important activity• GLADMail network members most often looking for
published research articles• Currently, most often consult Google or other online
search engines, publicly available electronic databases, and subscription databases
• 80% would use a customized service provided by GLADNET to identify current research and publications on specific topics
• Majority of respondents willing to pay nothing or no more than $100/year for such service
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GLADMail Network Survey Results (cont)
• Members most often felt GLADNET should meet once a year
• Theme of meeting was very important in decision to attend
• Location of meeting also very important• Proximity to other global disability
conferences or events also a factor in deciding to attend
• Cost of attendance an important factor
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GLADNET Leadership Operations Manual
• History of GLADNET• GLADNET General Assembly• GLADNET Board of Directors
– Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, Secretary-Treasurer, other Officers
• GLADNET Secretariat– GLADNET Executive Director, Operations Manager, Webmaster,
GLADMail Editor, InfoBase Manager
• Appendices– By-laws of the GLADNET Association– Minutes from Past Annual General Meetings– Minutes of Past Board of Directors’ Meetings– Locations of Annual General Meetings by Year– Past Board of Directors’ Chairpersons and Members by Year
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GLADNET Website
• Contact Us • About (Description, annual report, list of board members) • Infobase (link to search the Infobase now hosted at Cornell
University)• Services (link to ILRAccess service for GLADNET members)• Events (GLADNET events and other events important to
GLADNET community)• Links (External online resources of use to members)• Membership (Benefits of membership; application)• GLADmail (Link to subscribe)
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Relationship with Cornell University Catherwood Library
• Infobase - – 150 publications– Available in different languages– Google searchable
• Fee for service research from website– comprehensive research services on work related topics,
as well as document delivery from the library’s extensive collection of books, periodicals, and practitioner resources.
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Infobase
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ILRAccess (Fee for Service Research)
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Collaboration with the Arab Region Going Forward
• Discussion at AGM– Ideas for collaboration in the future
• Network with other global organisations and events
• Arab Decade of the Person with a Disability (2004 – 2014)– Specific activities related to the Arab Decade
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Discuss major areas where GLADNET might help your country or the Region?
• Issues?– Right to work and employment issues?– Employment for disabled youth?– Employment for women with disabilities?– Training program information? If so, what types of
training?
• Networking with others?• Others
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Susanne M. Bruyère, GLADNET [email protected]
Aldred Neufeld, GLADNET, Past [email protected]
Sharon VanCampen, GLADNET [email protected]
Edwin deVos, Vice [email protected]
Donal McAnaney, Secretary/Treasurer) [email protected]
Carl Raskin, GLADMail [email protected]
GLADNET Infobasehttp://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/gladnetcollect/
GLADNET Information Serviceshttp://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/ilrAccess/default.html