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Aboriginal communities in Australia acquire skills for digital storytelling

Aboriginal communities in Australia acquire skills for digital storytelling

January 31, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples

The SharingStories Foundation works with more than a dozen Aboriginal communities across Australia to support children, young people and elders to record ancient creation stories in new digital formats. Through the SharingStories programme, participants acquire digital skills – including storyboarding, audio recording,…

Nigeria and IBM partner up for digital skills development drive

January 28, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy

The government of Nigeria and IBM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost digital skills development in the country. Among the objectives of the MoU are to equip citizens with digital skills with globally recognized certifications, lower the…

Digital inclusion in the innovation district model: the case of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Digital inclusion in the innovation district model: the case of Chattanooga, Tennessee

January 24, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Employment and entrepreneurship, ICT infrastructure

According to the Brookings Institution, more and more cities are using the innovation district model, in which anchor institutions, companies, startups, business incubators, and accelerators are clustered together in dense urban areas to spur economic development. Such districts, however, can risk…

Educational tool for children with visual impairments to learn how to code launched in UK

Educational tool for children with visual impairments to learn how to code launched in UK

January 21, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Digital Literacy, Persons with disabilities, Youth and children

A new educational toy to help young students with vision impairment learn how to code has been launched on the UK market by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Code Jumper was designed by Microsoft and developed by American Printing…

Older persons face digital exclusion despite enthusiasm for new technology, Australian study finds

Older persons face digital exclusion despite enthusiasm for new technology, Australian study finds

January 18, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Seniors

Older people in Australia are on the whole enthusiastic about embracing new technology, but continue to be digitally excluded because service providers and the larger community exclude them from the digital experience, a new report by YourLink and PwC has…

Mobile app offers on-demand American Sign Language interpretation

Mobile app offers on-demand American Sign Language interpretation

January 15, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Persons with disabilities

Jeenie is an American language interpretation app which offers deaf and hard of hearing users an alternative to traditional telecommunication relay services (TRS) in the form of on-demand American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation.  An interpreter will appear within a minute of…

BT and Google team up to offer free digital skills training to SMEs in the UK

BT and Google team up to offer free digital skills training to SMEs in the UK

January 11, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Employment and entrepreneurship

SMEs are being offered the opportunity to acquire digital skills for free through a partnership between BT and the Google Digital Garage. At the training events, businesses receive advice on how to build a digital marketing plan; grow a business…

Centre for excellence in universal design and assistive technology to be established in Egypt

January 8, 2020 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has partnered with the Japanese Assistive Technology Development Organisation (ATDO) to establish of a joint centre for excellence in universal design and Assistive Technology at the National Academy of Information Technology for Persons with Disabilities (NAID) to improve the digital…

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