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ICT4D PWD is a community of people and organizations working together to improve the social and economic impact of Persons With Disabilities.
Opportunities for connecting Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) through ICT
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have the potential for making significant improvements in the lives of (PWDs).
And ICT has been identified as an important aspect of the wider strategy for the social inclusion of disabled people.
1. Learning at Distance
Distance courses allow disabled students to continue living at home while they are studying, to share documents, lessons, exchange ideas and make presentations. Using a computer were common components for the training and studying.
2. Reading Digital and Audio Libraries.
University students with a hearing disability, reading disability, blind, dyslexia and other disabilities are now able to get their courses from digital and audio libraries and get material, content, resources from internet, the students can themselves connect from home and read or hear the relevant books, without needing to go to the university or local library.
3. Internet, Broadband for PWDs.
The disabled people are limited by their capacity to communicate with each other at a distance, but during the internet they are gathering and understanding public information, news, participating in leisure interests with others, chat, shopping, attending finances, writing to authorities and friends, a computer with a broadband connection provides opportunities for enhanced participation and independence life.
4. Winning communication – distance guidance
ICT provides people with disabilities with effective guidance, for example, about labor market issues and limiting factors include access to specialists in labor market guidance with awareness to the issues in their related fields.
5. Implementation of many ICT Telecentres in the rural areas
Maximize the use of computer skills for the welfare of disabled people in rural communities. Also, creation of public awareness that PWDs can utilize their potentials for their use and the society using adaptive technology.
ICT4D PWD is a community of people and organizations working together to improve the social and economic impact of Persons With Disabilities.
Opportunities for connecting Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) through ICT
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have the potential for making significant improvements in the lives of (PWDs).
And ICT has been identified as an important aspect of the wider strategy for the social inclusion of disabled people.
1. Learning at Distance
Distance courses allow disabled students to continue living at home while they are studying, to share documents, lessons, exchange ideas and make presentations. Using a computer were common components for the training and studying.
2. Reading Digital and Audio Libraries.
University students with a hearing disability, reading disability, blind, dyslexia and other disabilities are now able to get their courses from digital and audio libraries and get material, content, resources from internet, the students can themselves connect from home and read or hear the relevant books, without needing to go to the university or local library.
3. Internet, Broadband for PWDs.
The disabled people are limited by their capacity to communicate with each other at a distance, but during the internet they are gathering and understanding public information, news, participating in leisure interests with others, chat, shopping, attending finances, writing to authorities and friends, a computer with a broadband connection provides opportunities for enhanced participation and independence life.
4. Winning communication – distance guidance
ICT provides people with disabilities with effective guidance, for example, about labor market issues and limiting factors include access to specialists in labor market guidance with awareness to the issues in their related fields.
5. Implementation of many ICT Telecentres in the rural areas
Maximize the use of computer skills for the welfare of disabled people in rural communities. Also, creation of public awareness that PWDs can utilize their potentials for their use and the society using adaptive technology.
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