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WCIT-12: New ITRs Article to make ICTs accessible to people with disabilities
Approximately six-hundred and fifty million people around the world live with some form of disability – including both physical and cognitive – with a high percentage of these individuals living in...
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WCIT-12 adopts humanitarian instruments to improve safety and accessibility
Information and Communication Technologies save lives and have the potential to maximize the benefits of the Knowledge Society for marginalized communities in landlocked developing countries, small...
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Working with our Members to promote ICT access for persons with disabilities
According to the World Report on Disability – issued jointly by the World Health Organization and the World Bank – approximately one billion people worldwide live with some form of disability. The...
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Mainstreaming Accessibility: Deafblindness, Assistive Technology and Advocacy
As a deaf-blind person, I’ve had to fight for seemingly trivial things like the right to access cafeteria menus or participate in rock-climbing. Most of the barriers I have encountered stemmed from...
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A call to action to build a fully accessible society
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, one of the committees in the UN human rights treaty bodies system, adopted at its meeting held in April 2014 its General Comment No 2 on the...
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The importance of Information and Communication Technologies in Building an...
Over the coming weeks, ITU’s 193 Member States will be meeting in Busan, Republic of Korea for the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference. This event is of great importance for the information and...
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Renewing ITU’s mandate to promote ICT accessibility
Today, on 03rd December, we celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities under the theme Sustainable Development: The Promise of Technology. For ITU, technology, especially Information and...
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It’s all about Accessibility!
Accessibility in information and communication technology (ICT) is intrinsically linked to ITU’s 150 year history of innovation, yet it has struggled to keep pace with the extraordinary advances in...
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My Life Advocating for Accessible ICTs
ICTs help persons with disabilities (PwD) overcome issues of access, be that to education, employment, or physical mobility. Throughout the world, persons living with disabilities are already...
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Safe Listening Devices: Volume and Hearing Loss
Matt Brady still struggles with hearing loss. He suffered permanent hearing damage in 2009 after listening to music on the treadmill at home, playing it at a volume that his parents could hear on the...
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