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Hi Erika, I believe this work is being done for UNESCO. If you have any questions about methodology or legitimacy, you should follow this up with the author and her e-mail address is below. Regards, Frank From: Erika Bockstael [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2017 1:22 AM To: Frank Hall-Bentick Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Invitation: UNESCO Final Disability Recognition & Empowerment Survey - YOUR Opinion Makes a Difference Hello Are you sure this is legitimate? I find the methodology a bit questionable - determining best practices for such a diverse global group based on 100 respondents, for example, and the fact that it seems to be a private company, not a UNESCO email address? Best Erika On Dec 10, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Frank Hall-Bentick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Fyi. From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] [ <mailto:[log in to unmask]> mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] via <http://surveymonkey.com/> surveymonkey.com Sent: Monday, 11 December 2017 7:19 AM To: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] Subject: Invitation: UNESCO Final Disability Recognition & Empowerment Survey - YOUR Opinion Makes a Difference A UNESCO Proposed Global Initiative: Recognizing Exceptional Accomplishment Among Persons with Disabilities & Best Empowerment Practices Dear colleague, The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is engaged in designing a program methodology to nominate and select annually approximately 100 persons with disabilities/differing abilities who have accomplished life goals that reflect empowering factors to overcome the barriers to personal and career development. We would appreciate learning your perspective as a stakeholder concerned with equitable access to the global economy, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) advocacy and implementation, technology accessibility, universal design and accommodations, inclusion in early childhood development and education, healthcare and habilitation, sports, the arts, employment, assistive devices, entrepreneurship, and more. It is UNESCO's intent to share the life journeys of those selected, as well as analyze and disseminate best practices that persons with disabilities individually and collectively adopt to mitigate barriers to fulfilling their destinies across a wide range of sectors. Your survey input as to the planning and desired outcomes for the UNESCO project (more fully described in the introduction to the survey) would add significant value. Some of you were asked to review a draft of the survey in November and provided excellent comments for modifications and additions. Please feel free to complete this survey as some of the questions have been modifed, new answer choices are available, and additional brief identifying questions added. Please click on the link below to complete and reply no later than Friday, December 15, 2017 at midnight Eastern US time. If others are interested in providing input, please have them contact me at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] It does not work to forward the link. I need to input each person's contact email; in this way, the data compilation and analytic tools work for analyzing the survey results. If you have any questions or difficulties accessing the survey, please contact me by email or phone below (the survey is offered only in English currently). In advance, thanks very much for your valued participation and feedback. With best regards and wishes for a holiday season for those celebrating, Evelyn Cherow, MA, MPA CEO/Founder GlobalPartnersUnited 5805 Melvern Drive Bethesda, MD 20817 USA 1-301-807-1247 (cell) <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.