The Operational Board of the R3TF

Arnoud lives in Oss, The Netherlands

Barry Dingle has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 35 years in network design and research and has been active in the development of international standards for 25 years. He has been a UN ITU-D Advisor and has been involved in disability issues for over 20 years.

Barry was the project manager for ACIF's Any-to-Any Text Connectivity Options (TATA) Working Group that produced a report to the Australian Government' Communications Department DCITA. He continues to be involved in developing mainstream text service solutions that also meet the needs of of people who are Deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment.
Barry lives in Melbourne, Australia 

Gunnar Hellström specialises in Accessible Telecommunications and Information Technology.

He is the founder of Omnitor, a Swedish company devoted to consulting and product development in this area.

Through a series of consultancy tasks, Gunnar has provided international leadership and been the editor of numerous international standards for text conversation in multimedia telecommunications, text telephony, wireless multimedia and video communications for sign language and lip reading. Gunnar is currently Chairman of ITU-T Q.H/16 Accessibility to Multimedia Systems and services.

He has also developed multi-media communication products that optimises personal communication, among others for deaf and deaf-blind users, using RTT and Total Conversation.
Gunnar lives in Johanneshov, Sweden.