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Planeta.com will celebrate Indigenous People’s Week 2017 through tourism and digital literacy unconference

April 22, 2017 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples

Planeta.com announced its seventh annual celebration of the Indigenous People’s Week to take place August 7-13. This celebration is a social web storytelling event that seeks to generate awareness about indigenous tourism opportunities worldwide and create valuable contents for digital…

Google provides training for 1 million Africans through Digital Skills program

April 5, 2017 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples

Google announced that its Digital Skills program reached its yearly goal of training 1 million Africans. Through this initiative, the organization intends to support local online businesses to grow through the usage of technology tools to amplify their productivity and…

City of Seattle funds 10 tech literacy programs

September 6, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples, Remote/underserved areas, Women and girls

Earlier in 2016, the Seattle IT Community Technology program released the Digital Equity Action Plan to “ensure all residents and neighborhoods have the information technology capacity needed for civic and cultural participation, employment, lifelong learning, and access to essential services.”…

Digital Inclusion program targets Panamanian indigenous population

September 5, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples

Odebrecht, the Technologic University of Panama, Dell Panama and different local leaders from the region trained 50 indigenous adults in mobile digital skills as part of the Project for the Third Electric Transmission Line. The group of participants was formed…

Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias to provide mobile services for Mexican indigenous communities

August 4, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in ICTs for education, Indigenous peoples

Mexican Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias A.C. (TIC) received a license to provide mobile services for up to 1,200 communities in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Guerrero and Puebla states. The main objective of this initiative is to bridge the current digital divide by…

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…

Universidad de Querétaro develops campaign for indigenous digital inclusion

June 24, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in ICTs for education, Indigenous peoples

The Autonomous University of Querétaro in Mexico (UAQ in Spanish) started a digital inclusion campaign called “Jamädi”, which means “thank you” in the otomí indigenous dialect. The main objective of the project is to reduce the digital divide in the…

Advance Queensland funds research projects to provide indigenous people in Australia with Digital skills

May 6, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Employment and entrepreneurship, Indigenous peoples

Advance Queensland is a group of programs that was designed to promote knowledge-based jobs in Australia. Currently, the initiative has started to support research for introducing digital skills into the educational experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait indigenous students. Around…

International Telecommunication Union and Fondo Indígena launch call to share innovative communication tools with indigenous leaders

March 11, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples

Since 2005, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has implemented an on-line training program for Indigenous Leaders, consisting of 3 on-line training courses every year. These courses targeted to promote more accessibility to ICT resources and enhance the digital skills of…

REDemplea2.0: ICT mechanisms to provide jobs for disabled people in Spain

February 12, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Digital Literacy, Employment and entrepreneurship, Indigenous peoples

According to data from the Spanish Observatory for Disability and the Labor Market,  in 2013 only one out of four disabled individuals in the country had an occupation. In order to address this challenge, the REDemplea2.0 employment network for rural…

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