Access and Inclusion Services

David Banes is Head of the Equitable AI Alliance, and Gneral Secretary of DATEurope. He is also Director of David Banes Access and Inclusion Services and co-founder of Global symbols, having previously led accessibility and  assistive technology services in Europe and the Middle East He now works across the globe including projects in Africa and South Asia to support access infrastructure from policy to practice.

He has a special interest in emerging technologies and the impact upon people with a disability including the use of AI to augment communication and emerging technologies and the use of innovation to build resilient public services including those for people with a disability.

David writes regularly on the tools and techniques and recent publications include emerging technologies and the impact on universal design for learning, economic return on investment in AT, and the potential impact of frugal innovation on the provision of assistive products.