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Saint Lucia celebrates International Girls in ICT Day by training female entrepreneurs in Digital Marketing

April 20, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Women and girls

Preparing to celebrate International Girls in ICT Day, the Saint Lucia Coalition of Services & Industry (SLCSI) in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (CARCIP) have launched a campaign consisting of a series of activities that will take…

Gender-driven Hackatons to promote ICT girl empowerment

April 19, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Women and girls

Promoting gender empowerment and equality through ICT is not just a matter of teaching basic skills to decrease the digital divide, but also of getting women involved in high-skill technology related careers. In order to address gender differences in the…

Facebook uses artificial intelligence to address the needs of persons with vision disabilities

April 19, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility

Similarly to other social media and web services’ providers, Facebook is now offering image description features for persons with vision disabilities. However, the solution offered by the organization is unique in the sense that it operates based on artificial intelligence…

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New feature in Twitter for persons with vision disabilities

April 18, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility

According to Twitter’s blogpost from March 29, 2016, a new accessibility feature has been added to the application in order to “empower customers and publishers to make images on Twitter accessible to the widest possible audience.” This new functionality allows…

Australian Department of Communications and the Arts invites government agencies to support International Girls in ICT Day

April 18, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Women and girls

Based on the fact that females make up only 28% of Australia’s ICT’s workforce, the Australian Department of Communication and Arts has invited other government agencies to promote International Girls in ICT Day on 28 April 2016 under the theme…

Cisco and Greenlight for Girls organize g4g@work 2016 to support the Global Girls in ICT Day

April 17, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in ICTs for education, Women and girls

In preparation for the Global Girls in ICT Day, Cisco and Greenlight for Girls have invited participants to register for the g4g@work2016. Girls from 11 to 15 years old, who are curious about technology, are invited to join an afternoon…

Oxfam and the International Telecommunication Union will host Twitter Debate about #GirlsinICT

Oxfam and the International Telecommunication Union will host Twitter Debate about #GirlsinICT

April 15, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in ICTs for education, Uncategorized, Women and girls

The International Girls in ICT Day is a worldwide annual celebration promoted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to raise awareness and encourage girls and young women to study ICT related careers. Last year 2015, these efforts were materialized in…

Closed Captioning improvements to provide accessible video programming in US

April 13, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

In order to provide users with accessible Television contents, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a series of amendments to its Closed Captioning rules for televised video programming. The document recognizes which institutions are responsible for the delivery of…

Academia and industry collaborating to increase video game accessibility in UK and Scotland

April 11, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

A group of researchers from Robert Gordon University School of Computing Science and Digital Media, is currently collaborating with industry partners to increase accessibility in the design of video games and interactive digital content. The main purpose of the project…

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Kviz app to promote accessible web design for persons with disabilities in Croatia

April 8, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

The Croatian Regulatory Agency for Network Industries (HAKOM) and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) of the University of Zagreb published the Kviz web accessibility application last March 27, 2016. The purpose of this app is to inform…

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