Staff and AdvisorsArnoud van Wijk, Disabilities Project Coordinator
 Arnoud van Wijk works with ISOC on a consulting basis to coordinate and advance activities related to the Internet and persons with disabilities. He is an expert in related Internet Protocol based technologies and e-inclusion issues.
Arnoud was born deaf in a hearing family and learned to communicate in the hearing word by lip-reading. His high communications skills helped him achieve an advanced degree in biochemistry, studying at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Arnoud worked for four years at the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, USA, then, in 2000 moved into the ICT field, working with Ericsson in the Netherlands. In 2002, Arnoud joined the Dutch organisation Viataal (previously know as the Institute for the Deaf) to develop a mobile text telephone platform. He also worked with AnnieS, a Dutch company that sells mobile text telephone and ICT services for the deaf and hard of hearing. Arnoud has been a technical adviser for the European Federation for Hard of Hearing People and to the European Commission on ICT for e-Inclusion. Since 2001, he has also worked with the Trace Research and Development Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madision which has a partnership with the Technology Access Program at Gallaudet University in Washington DC. In 2007, Arnoud started his own consulting company, working on ICT inclusion issues and technology.
Arnoud has been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since December 2000, where he has co-authored or contributed to various Internet Drafts and RFCs related to the Real- Time Text standard and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
Arnoud is fluent in Dutch and English.
Arnoud is based in Oss, The Netherlands |
