Australia’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Australian government agencies have been required to provide information and services in a non-discriminatory accessible manner since the early nineties (Disability Discrimination Act 1992) and, in 1999, the first regulations involving web content, WCAG 1.0, were published. Since 2008 the…
Repurposing: mobile cinema turned into learning centre in Mexico
Cine transformer, a mobile cinema service in Mexico, is being used by the Mexican Government to bring digital literacy to remote areas with little access to technology as part of the program called “Plaza del conocimiento, un proyecto de inclusión…
ONCE Foundation and the European Social Fund join forces to help digitally train persons with disabilities
Last week, ONCE Foundation1’s body responsible for training and employment of people with disabilities, FSC Inserta, hosted free-of-charge courses in different regions of Spain to train people in digital literacy and prepare them for the labour market, making sure they…
Accessible technology helps overcome transportation obstacles
“I feel absolutely amazed and grateful to Uber and to this unique experience. (…) What a pair! A blind person and a deaf person doing business.” Emrah, Chicago. (Uber Newsroom) Uber is capitalizing on its technology based business model to…
Chile’s libraries fight to bridge the digital divide
Biblioredes, a program that has existed for over 5 years in Chile, provides virtual and on site digital literacy courses to the population. It is offered by DIBAM (Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos) and over 400 public libraries spread…
Youth inspired by Code Week in Africa and in Europe
This past month saw a multitude of events being hosted in numerous countries to boost coding popularity among children. The 2015 Africa Code Week introduced coding skills to close to 90000 children and youth in the continent via more than…
Emergency texting now available to the hearing and speech impaired
Communication with emergency services is now being facilitated in Canada by T9-1-1, a free text service that is aimed at DHHSI persons (deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or speech impaired). This service is only available for the areas where network…
ICT training to reach Bangladeshi women in remote areas
The Bangladeshi government has joined forces with Robi and Huawei Technologies to bring ICT training to women in the country’s remote areas. The three-year project will start in January 2016, at which point six operational buses with ICT training facilities…
Model ICT Accessibility Policy Report
Have you seen the Model ICT Accessibility Policy Report published by ITU and G3ict (Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs)? It is available in four languages (Arabic, English, French and Spanish). In the words of Beat Kleeb from the World Federation…
Women in cybersecurity and inspiration for the weekend
This insightful article from Josephine Wolff underlines some of the reasons why women might not be present as widely as they should in the cybersecurity industry, and sheds light on some features that might distance them from the increasingly popular hackathons. Josephine…
