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Press Release Source: TV Worldwide
Homeland Security CIO, Civil Rights Chief to Discuss New DHS Section 508
Initiative in Free TV Worldwide Webcast on October 7
Thursday October 7, 7:35 am ET
Assistive Technology Internet TV Channel AT508.com to Make Live-to-Tape
Webcast Announcement Available Today at 10 AM ET
CHANTILLY, VA--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 7, 2004 -- TVWorldwide.com, a fast-growing
web-based global TV network, announced that its AT508.com TV channel for the
community of people with disabilities (_www.at508.com_
(http://www.at508.com/) ) and its HomelandDefenseTV channel (_www.homelanddefensetv.com_
(http://www.homelanddefensetv.com/) ) will provide free access to live-to-tape
Internet press conference webcast by Department of Homeland Security Chief
Information Officer, Steve Cooper, and Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,
Daniel Sutherland. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Sutherland will announce the details of
a new Department of Homeland Security initiative involving Section 508 of
the Rehabilitation Act. The initiative will establish a Program Office within
the Department of Homeland Security to ensure DHS's compliance with Section
508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The press conference webcast archive will be
made available at 10AM ET, today, Thursday, October 7, 2004.
"As a long-time developer of streaming media content for the community of
people with disabilities, we are excited about producing a webcast on this new
DHS Section 508 initiative," commented Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TV
Worldwide. "We are honored to be able to host Mr. Cooper and Mr. Sutherland, two
senior leaders from the Department of Homeland Security, to make this
important announcement."
The webcast of the event will be available at 10 AM today, Thursday, October
7 and archived in fully accessible format using the captioned video
streaming of TVWorldwide.com's "webcapting"(SM) process. The event will be simulcast
on AT508.com (_www.at508.com_ (http://www.at508.com/) ), TV Worldwide's
Internet TV channel for the community of people with disabilities with emphasis on
assistive technology. TV Worldwide's well trafficked HomelandDefenseTV
channel (_www.homelanddefensetv.com_ (http://www.homelanddefensetv.com/) ) will
also webcast the event in fully accessible format.
To view the webcast, participants should have the latest version of Windows
Media Player. The webcast will be made available as an archived file and will
be hosted for one full year at HomelandDefenseTV.com and at AT508.com.
Other DHS disability related initiatives archived webcast programs include
an August 31 webcast with Mr. Sutherland concerning President Bush's Executive
Order intended to increase the safety of persons with disabilities during
emergency situations, a March 10 announcement by Mr. Sutherland about increased
job opportunities for persons with disabilities within the Department of
Homeland Security and an April 30 panel discussion on meeting on the needs of
the disabled in emergency situations and strategies for protecting such
individuals -- including the establishment of a curriculum to train first
responders. All of these programs are also available on the websites as archived
programming.
Bio-Chief Information Officer: Steven I. Cooper
Mr. Cooper was appointed by President Bush to be the first CIO of the
Department of Homeland Security in February, 2003. He and his team have
responsibility for the information technology assets supporting 190,000 federal
employees of the 22 agencies now comprising the new department. They will also
continue efforts focused on integrating new and existing sources of essential
homeland security information via proven and emerging technologies and in full
compliance with our broader values of privacy, civil liberties, and openness.
Mr. Cooper was appointed in March 2002 as a Special Assistant to the
President for Homeland Security and served as Senior Director for Information
Integration in the White House Office of Homeland Security. In this role, Mr.
Cooper launched the development of the National Enterprise Architecture for
Homeland Security to address information integration within the federal government
and the sharing of homeland security information with state, local, and
relevant private sector entities. He fostered partnerships with state and local
government and the private sector to assist federal, state, and local
initiatives focused on the sharing of law enforcement, public health, and emergency
services information. With James Flyzik, Senior Advisor to the Homeland
Security Director and former CIO of the Treasury Department, he provided the input
for Information Sharing and Systems to the National Strategy for Homeland
Security.
Prior to federal government service, Mr. Cooper spent more than twenty years
in the private sector as an Information Technology professional, most
recently as CIO, Corporate Staffs, and Executive Director, Strategic Information
Delivery, for Corning, Inc. in Corning, NY. Previously, he served as Director,
Information Technology for Eli Lilly & Company in Indianapolis, IN. Mr.
Cooper held several senior level technical and management positions with CSC,
MAXIMA, and CACI prior to forming his own consulting organization, Strategic
Information Concepts.
His primary areas of expertise lie in Information Integration, Strategic
Information Delivery, Information Technology Architecture, Enterprise
Application Integration, Application Development, Information Technology Metrics and
Value Assessment, and Process Architecture and Reengineering.
Mr. Cooper holds a BA degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, and has held
professional certification as a Certified Computer Professional (CCP) from the
Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals (ICCP). He also
served in the Naval Air Reserve during the Vietnam conflict. He has been married
for thirty years, and his wife, Suzanne, and he have four daughters.
Bio-Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Daniel W. Sutherland
On April 16, 2003, President Bush appointed Daniel W. Sutherland to be the
Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security. This position was created by Section 705 of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002. In this position, Mr. Sutherland will provide legal and policy
advice to the Secretary and the senior officers of the Department on a full
range of civil rights and civil liberties issues. He will also work closely
with the civil rights offices and the equal employment opportunity offices of
the agencies being merged into the Department.
Mr. Sutherland has been a civil rights attorney throughout his legal career,
serving fourteen years with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice and nearly two years with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S.
Department of Education. Mr. Sutherland also served as the first Executive
Director of the Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission, which
is coordinating a major national effort to commemorate this landmark Supreme
Court decision. He has co-authored Religion in the Workplace, a book
published in 1998 by the American Bar Association, and he has served at the White
House, with the Domestic Policy Council, and at the Bush-Cheney Transition
headquarters.
Mr. Sutherland has handled a number of important civil rights lawsuits. His
experience has been primarily in the areas of discrimination against
immigrants and discrimination against people with disabilities. His litigation
includes cases alleging discrimination by a large urban police department in its
dealings with people who are deaf; allegations that a licensing authority would
not adequately accommodate test-takers who are blind; and, allegations of
discrimination against refugees from Vietnam and the former Soviet Union. Mr.
Sutherland has handled a number of cases dealing with the intersection of
civil rights laws and athletics, including handling the case of the first
baseball player who defected from the Cuban national baseball team, a
widely-publicized lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association on behalf of
student-athletes with dyslexia, and the Casey Martin case which reached U.S.
Supreme Court.
At the U.S. Department of Education, Mr. Sutherland provided legal and
policy advice on issues such as racial preferences in postsecondary education, the
development of race-neutral approaches to diversity, disability law and the
harassment of Arab-Americans. He also served as the Chief of Staff, helping
to manage the operations of one of the largest civil rights offices in the
federal government.
Mr. Sutherland is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and
the University of Louisville.
About AT508.com
TVWorldwide's AT508.com Internet TV channel was launched in October 2002 at
the World Congress on Disabilities in Orlando, Florida, featuring
world-renowned disability columnist John Williams covering the latest in assistive
technology and Section 508 news and since then has webcast the TASH, ATIA, CSUN
and CEC events for the community of people with disabilities. AT508.com
features articles and videos on the latest in assistive technology products,
services and issues. During industry trade shows, AT508.com highlights keynotes,
presentations and interviews with exhibitors and speakers. AT508.com events are
webcast live and archived in fully accessible format using the captioned
video streaming of TVWorldwide.com's "webcapting"(SM) process. AT508.com sponsors
include The Paciello Group, HP, textHELP!, Kurzweil Educational Systems,
Corda, Deque, Audio Eye, Sighted Electronics Freedom Vision, the Council for
Exceptional Children and Vcom3D.
About HomelandDefenseTV.com
Homeland Defense TV provides informational programming and e-learning
opportunities on homeland defense topics for government and corporate security
personnel, first responders and interested citizens. The programs of
homelanddefenseTV.com, a venue for interactive streaming media e-learning courses,
seminars, conferences and meetings, are sponsored by the University of Findlay
School of Environmental and Emergency Management (SEEM), Homeland Defense Journal
and Homeland Defense Radio. In addition to streaming video and audio, the
site features relevant printed material and links to sites that provide
additional information. HomelanddefenseTV.com is a content-rich, comprehensive
source of knowledge about homeland defense, safety and security or emergency
preparedness and response
About TV Worldwide
As a leading global Internet broadcasting and streaming media company, TV
Worldwide (_www.tvworldwide.com_ (http://www.tvworldwide.com/) ) is developing
a network of video channels that is an affiliation of community-based
Internet television stations, each underwritten by a strategic partner,
"aimcasting"(SM) to targeted demographic audiences worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with
strategic partners to develop the latest in live and archived state-of-the
art video streaming content applications. TVWorldwide.com was recently named
one of the streaming video industry's "Hottest Streaming Companies" by
Streaming Magazine, _www.streamingmagazine.com_ (http://www.streamingmagazine.com/) ,
and CEO Dave Gardy was honored by the magazine as one of the 50 Most
Influential People in Streaming Media. Mr. Gardy currently serves as the president
of the International Webcasting Association (IWA).
Contact:
Contact:
Andrea Gwartney
TV Worldwide.com, Inc.
_andrea@tvworldwide.com_ (mailto:andrea@tvworldwide.com)
_http://www.tvworldwide.com_ (http://www.tvworldwide.com/)
(703) 961-9250 Ext. 220
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Press Office
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Press Release
October 7, 2004
Contact Press Office: 202-282-8010
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO CREATE 508 COMPLIANCE OFFICE
FOR ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(Washington, DC) Oct. 7, 2004 - The Department of Homeland Security today
announced that it will create a state-of-the-art program to ensure that
electronic and information technology is accessible for employees and consumers with
disabilities.
Steve Cooper, the Department’s Chief Information Officer, and Daniel
Sutherland, the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, made the announcement
on _www.AT508.com_ (http://www.at508.com/) , a website that features news of
interest to the disability community. Cooper and Sutherland will oversee a
program to ensure compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The
new office will be a part of the senior leadership of the Office of the Chief
Information Officer, as well as having a reporting relationship to the
Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Two positions to staff the new
office, including the Program Manager, were posted today on the USAJOBS website.
“Making electronic and information technology accessible for people with
disabilities is a good business management strategy,” Chief Information Officer
Steve Cooper said. “Complying with Section 508 ensures our information
technology will be more capable of responding to technology changes in future
years. A strong accessibility program results in more flexibility, more
portability, better designs and better websites.”
“This joint project further fulfills Secretary Ridge’s commitment that
Homeland Security will be a model federal agency, and particularly with regard to
how this new agency relates to people with disabilities,” Civil Rights and
Civil Liberties Officer Daniel Sutherland said. “The senior leadership of DHS
looks outside the box in our efforts to create an agency that will meet the
challenge given to us by President Bush and meets the expectations of the
American public.”
Section 508 requires federal agencies to ensure that the electronic and
information technology (EIT) that they develop, procure, maintain and use is
accessible to their employees and consumers with disabilities. Section 508 was
enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make new
opportunities available for people with disabilities, and to encourage the development
of technologies that will help achieve these goals.
Previously, the Secretary has put in place aggressive efforts to promote
employment opportunities for people with disabilities, has placed a priority on
integrating people with disabilities into the emergency preparedness effort,
and has directed the Transportation Security Administration’s innovative
program for screening travelers with disabilities. The Secretary is also
committed to providing access to the _www.dhs.gov_ (http://www.dhs.gov/) web page
for all individuals with disabilities.
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