115 young Digital Ambassadors who worked to improve digital inclusion in Rwanda through digital skills training, digital entrepreneurship and technology-enabled social innovation graduated from the Digital Opportunity Trust’s (DOT) Digital Ambassador Program on 22 November 2019. The Digital Ambassadors provided digital skills training…
Deaf Pioneers Life Centre (DPLC), an NGO in Trinidad and Tobago providing educational opportunities for hearing impaired persons, and the Digical Foundation have partnered to enable deaf and hearing impaired persons living in remote areas of the islands to access educational content through…
The second edition of Accessible Europe was held in St Julian’s, Malta, from 4 to 6 December 2019. This regional event for Europe was jointly organized by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Commission (EC), within…
The African Development Bank and Microsoft jointly launched the ‘Coding for Employment’ digital training platform, which will equip African youth with digital skills, at the 2019 African Economic Conference which took place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from 2 to 4…
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNICEF are coordinating GIGA, a new initiative to connect every school to the Internet. GIGA will be supported through partnerships between country governments, technology partners, and United Nations bodies. The initiative comprises four pillars: Map:…
The sixth edition of Accessible Americas: ICTs for ALL took place in Quito, Ecuador, from 20 to 22 November 2019. Accessible Americas is the region’s flagship event to improve inclusiveness in the Americas by ensuring ICTs equally benefit all citizens, regardless their gender,…
The Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE) has been awarded $47.9 million to bring telephone and Internet services to Indigenous territories in the south of Costa Rica and near its Atlantic coast. The investment was made through the National Telecommunications Fund (FONATEL),…
Microsoft held its first ever AI for Accessibility hackathon across seven Asian Pacific countries on 11 October, with the aim of developing artificial intelligence (AI) prototype solutions to challenges faced by persons with disabilities related to daily living, employability and communication, so…
Malta is among the first countries in the European Union to create a biometric passport (e-passport) accessible to the blind and persons with visual impairments. A Speech Code, in the form of a QR code sticker, can be affixed to…
The newly launched Smart Index (Índice Smart), the first such tool in Spain to measure the progress of smart cities and identify challenges and opportunities for improvement, indicates that Spanish cities should develop more active and efficient policies to improve the inclusion…
