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Go Digi Pop-Up Festival in Darwin promotes senior digital inclusion

September 29, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Seniors

The Go Digi Pop-Up Festival is one of the initiatives meant to support the National Year of Digital Inclusion with the purpose of training 300,000 Australians in digital skills and online confidence. Last September 1-3 the festival was celebrated in…

PAVE 2.0 new open source tool adapts PDFs for accessibility

September 25, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

The ICT Accessibility Lab of the ZHAW School of Engineering and the Swiss Blind and Visually Impaired Association launched an open source online tool that adapts PDFs to be translated by text readers. The main function of the PAVE 2.0…

Digital Youth Employment Initiative trains 123 Jamaican youth in professional ICT Skills

September 24, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Employment and entrepreneurship, Youth and children

Avasant Foundation with the support of the University of Technology Jamaica celebrated the graduation of the Digital Youth Employment Initiative, which consisted in the training of 123 youth in Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica. Since the pilot program in June…

Lagos trains youth in ICT to promote economic growth and tackle unemployment

September 23, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Employment and entrepreneurship

The state of Lagos, Nigeria launched an eleven-week study program to train 500 underemployed youth to become software developers and digital marketers. The course will provide participants with entrepreneurship training to enhance their self-reliance, business and ICT skills through hands-on-experience….

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BrailleEasy keyboard enables persons with vision disabilities to type faster and more conveniently in their smartphones

September 23, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

  Researchers from Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) launched the BrailleEasy keyboard application that makes Braille typing faster and more convenient in smartphones. The keyboard can be used both by left and right-handed users, and it may be utilized for…

Applications open for The Code To Change 2016 program

Applications open for The Code To Change 2016 program

September 21, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Women and girls

The ICT sector is rapidly growing, providing significant job opportunities for skilled ICT professionals. In the US and Europe alone, over 2 million computing-related jobs are estimated to be available by 2020 (European Commission and NCWIT). Furthermore, digital technologies have…

Cyient Digital Centers to provide resources for digital literacy in Serilingamapally suburb, Telengana

September 20, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy

Tech company Cyient Ltd. launched 54 digital centers in Serilingampally suburb in Telengana, India. As part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the company, the Cyient Digital Centers (CDC) will be setup in different public schools from the…

UMass Medical School researches text simplification to make websites more accessible for persons with cognitive disabilities

September 19, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

Researchers from the UMass Medical School’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center are seeking to determine whether simplifying text for persons with cognitive disabilities improves their understanding of online contents. The project consists in leveraging the computing and natural-language processing capabilities of…

International Telecommunication Union and East Africa Community organize E-accessibility workshop

September 19, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Accessibility, Persons with disabilities

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the East Africa Community Secretariat (EAC) will host an E-accessibility Policy workshop for East Africa from 6 to 7 October 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The main objective of this event is to provide a…

Haryana sets IT labs to offer basic and advanced computer training

September 19, 2016 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy

Haryana state in Northern India will set up IT labs to provide basic computer training as well as application software orientation to citizens and medium level entrepreneurs. In an effort to support the “Digital India” initiative, these labs will cover…

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