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New public learning center to promote digital literacy in Toryglen, Scotland

July 29, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy

As part of the Click & Connect project, the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) opened a new digital learning center in Toryglen, Scotland. The main purpose of this hub is to provide free internet access and digital literacy for the community…

Youth Code Jam opens summer camps to teach digital skills for children in Texas

July 28, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in ICTs for education, Youth and children

The Youth Code Jam opened its first summer camp in Texas to teach coding and tech literacy for children from Kindergarten to eighth grade at Ella Austin Community Center. The training offered at the camp shows kids how to take…

Persons with disabilities, youth and senior citizens from Quezon City will receive free digital literacy training

July 27, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Digital Literacy, Persons with disabilities, Seniors, Youth and children

The Quezon City government in the Philippines signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Science and Technology – Information and Communications Technology Office to undertake a joint project for digital literacy. The main objective of this collaboration is…

#BuiltByGirls challenges girls to pitch their tech-enabled solutions

July 26, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in ICTs for education, Women and girls, Youth and children

Last July 19th, AOL launched the #BUILTBYGIRLS initiative to “call for young women to use the power of technology to conceptualize tech-enabled solutions to the problems facing the #62million girls without access to education”. There are two possible ways of…

Participation of Girls in ICT continues to grow in main US universities

July 25, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in ICTs for education, Women and girls, Youth and children

According to a recent article published by Tech Crunch, male domination over STEM related courses seems to be coming to an end in top US schools. Universities such as UC Berkeley, Stanford or Harvey Mudd College have significantly increased the…

FCC renews iCanConnect program to provide communications equipment for persons with disabilities in US

July 24, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

The FCC announced the allocation of USD10 million to support the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program (NDBEDP), also known as iCanConnect, for the period July 2016-2017.This program, organized by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeks to support persons with…

Malaysian juvenile inmates to receive digital literacy training

July 22, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Youth and children

The Prisons Department of Malaysia in collaboration with Microsoft Malaysia launched a program to provide 16 to 21 year old inmates with opportunities to become digitally literate and prepare for future job opportunities or studies. This initiative will make it…

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Women and ICT Frontier Initiative to empower women in Asia and the Pacific through ICT entrepreneurship

July 21, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Employment and entrepreneurship, Women and girls

In June 2016, the Women and ICT Frontier Initiative (WIFI) was launched in Korea during a regional forum dedicated to capacity building in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific. The program aims to…

US Education Department reaches agreement with 11 education institutions to generate accessible websites

July 20, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached settlements with education organizations in seven states and one territory to ensure website accessibility for persons with disabilities. After receiving complaints related to the inaccessibility of their websites, a…

APEC Women and the Economy 2016 Forum calls for digital literacy to break economic integration barriers of women in the global market

July 19, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples, Women and girls

On 30 June, The APEC Women and the Economy 2016 Forum gathered a group of leaders from the Asia-Pacific region to discuss about “Breaking Barriers to the Economic Integration of Women in the Global Market.” The event was organized to…

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