Hong Kong’s third GirlSpark event introduces more women to ICT careers
Back in the beginning of January, Hong Kong’s women had the opportunity to attend the GirlSpark Camp 2016. The free 4-day event hosted by Microsoft along with The Women’s Foundation and Ivey Business School offered workshops and networking opportunities in…
New full-page Braille reader under development
An interesting opportunity for blind and visually impaired people to move from the current expensive, slow and difficult to use single line refreshable Braille displays to an easy-to-use, cheap and more effective device is currently under development at the University…
Indigenous people enhance mobile coverage in remote Australia
An interesting example of a digital inclusion project made by and for indigenous people that will have benefits for a whole region. Remote areas of the Northern Territory in Australia are now getting full mobile phone coverage thanks to the…
Coding classes to reach 10.000 Australian students by December 2016
Improving digital literacy by bringing 10.000 school students into coding by December 2016. This is the ambitious target of Code the Future a global community of volunteer developers and educators based in Australia. Their objective is clear: to bring the…
New learning opportunities for India’s minority language speakers
The opportunity of a personalized learning experience for the preparation of job-oriented exams is now becoming a reality for India’s minority language speakers. The mobile-based test preparation platform OnlineTyari, which provides learning materials, mock tests, e-books and other services for…
ITC launches an app to promote women’s businesses from around the world
The city of Nairobi, together with the International Trade Centre (ITC), has recently hosted the International Forum on Women in Business, a gathering of various stakeholders, including representatives of the business community and policy makers, to discuss the gender gap…
Google’s Project Link continues to expand
After installing a high speed network across the city of Kampala, Uganda, Google is going forward with Project Link and expanding to the cities of Accra, Tema and Kumasi, in Ghana. Project Link is an effort to provide more consistent…
ICTs for a better world
Save the children, along with Red Natic and Chicos.net, recently hosted “Tecnología para un mundo mejor” (Technology for a Better World) in Buenos Aires. In an effort to promote the rights of children and youth in the digital world, the…
FCC new rules to increase accessibility for the hearing impaired
“Today, we take a significant step toward modernizing our hearing aid compatibility rules to keep pace with past and future advances in the wireless handset marketplace.” (Accessibility News International) With these words the Chairman of the FCC Tom Wheeler commented…
Technologies included in the updated New Zealand’s Disability Action Plan
New Zealand’s government has recently updated its Disability Action Plan 2014-2018. After being released in April 2014, two rounds of public consultations were carried out and an update was approved in December 2015. The consultations were mainly centred around pinpointing…
