ICT for the Development of Persons with Disabilities

ICT have the potential for making significant improvements in the lives of PWDs

ICT4D PWD is a community of people and organizations working together to improve the social and economic impact of Persons With Disabilities

Members

  • Cuchie Echeverria
  • Meddie Mayanja
  • Basheerhamad Shadrach
  • Ashraf Latif Hanna
  • Shipra Sharma
  • Dr. Bessam Abdulrazak
  • dr Amal Abd elrahman Saleh
  • Seuwandi Yapa
  • Dr. Moussa Charafeddin
  • lotfi ben lallahom
  • Dr. Ron Vederman
  • abdusalam mustafa shlebak

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Links for Hearing Disability

http://www.deafblind.com/

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Created by Nabil Eid Nov 14, 2009 at 1:06pm. Last updated by Nabil Eid Nov. 14, 2009.

Links for Blind and Visually Impaired

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BARRIERS TO ICT FOR DISABLED PEOPLE.

Six inter-related barriers to ICT can be identified in existing literature. These are:

• Lack of interest

• L

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Demographics

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Created by Nabil Eid Oct 28, 2009 at 8:17pm. Last updated by Nabil Eid Oct. 30, 2009.

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The ICT4DPWDs Network has crossed 230 member mark

The network was launched since two months ago.
The ICT for Development Persons with Disabilities Network has crossed 230 member mark.

ICT for Development Persons with Disabilities Network has crossed 230 member mark since two month ago. Thanks for your active participation, support and collaboration in making this social network community is activity.
The English site right now has: 230 members, 188 photos, 15 videos, 13 discussions,
27 forum topics, 23 Events, 24 blog posts, 10 groups. All credit goes to you!



“Let us work together, we are confident that we can, and we are very sure, make brighter future. We have a dream that our world will be forever bright and green especially in the eyes of those persons with disabilities”.

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Dr. Moussa Charafeddin

Final Report about Cairo conference

Dear friends The Cairo conference on Social Role in Child Disability which was organized by the Arab Center for Child Development betwen Feb 2-Fb.4/2010 the final report is enclosed. You can see the…

Tagged: Child, Arab

Started by Dr. Moussa Charafeddin in Sample Title Feb 4.

gunadasa rathnayaka

ICT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITES 1 Reply

Dear Nabil Eid `First and foremost I wish to congratulate you and also Appreciate ever  so much for the endeavor taken by you to make of 'Information communication Technology project for the benefit…

Started by gunadasa rathnayaka in Sample Title. Last reply by Nabil Eid Jan 29.

Nabil Eid

ICT is helping PWDs to learn and interact but !! the major barrier is of cost

Despite the fact that ICT is helping disables to learn and interact, there are some barriers that come in the way of the disabled to get advantage of the wonderful technologies. Major barrier is of c…

Tagged: ICT4D, barrier, PWDs, and

Started by Nabil Eid in Sample Title Jan 21.

David Banes

GATE - Global Assistive Technology Encyclopedia 1 Reply

I hope you will be interested in joining us at GATE Gate is a wiki that is free to use on all aspects of assisti ve technology for people with a disability At present much of the information is in…

Tagged: Technology, Assistive, AT, wiki

Started by David Banes in Uncategorized. Last reply by Nabil Eid Dec. 1, 2009.

Blog Posts

akram mohammed ahmed

Abrar Organization living workshop to help people with disabilities in Khartoum


Mr. Akram Mohammed Ahmed al-Haj gave a lecture hall the righteous for the disabled included on how to build peace and application of information technology in the service of disability issues, this has been a lecture is part of a workshop held for a week with full financing from the United Nations, which has… Continue

Posted by akram mohammed ahmed on February 3, 2010 at 4:54pm

Nabil Eid

The Persons with Disabilities also grapple with copyright issues


Dr. Basheerhamad Shadrach head of Telecentre.org foundation participated this important article, Thank you, Dr. Shaddy we highly appreciate your participation with us
Deepa Kurup
Go beyond Braille to include e-formats in amendment, they tell Government

MOVING AHEAD:
Making books… Continue

Posted by Nabil Eid on February 1, 2010 at 11:10am

akram mohammed ahmed

World Day for Persons with Disabilities in Sudan

A group of organizations working in the disability field exhibitions and cultural activities sponsored by (Sudani Company for telecommunication


) under the slogan (discovered in me) has been involved children with disabilities Bjaddarip, plays, singing and in the framework of the celebration of World Day for Per… Continue

Posted by akram mohammed ahmed on January 31, 2010 at 1:11pm

Dr. Moussa Charafeddin

Guidelines for PWD in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Association on Human Rights has published a series of Guidebooks in Arabic. Those booklets and books are focusing on the rights of certain vulnorable groups. I am attching the guidebook which is focusing on people with disability.
It is very interesting when we read such suggestions and instruction in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia had ratified the United Nation's Convention and signed also the optional Protocols.… Continue

Posted by Dr. Moussa Charafeddin on January 27, 2010 at 8:33pm

Dr. Moussa Charafeddin

CRPD Committee

We would like to introduce to you all the importnace of the CRPD Committees, its components, its role, and its influence on the iplementation of CRPD and Optional Protocols

IDA (CRPD Forum) recommendations on the election process of the CRPD Committee

Conference of States Parties (COP)

The third Conference of States Parties to the CRPD to be held in early September 2010 will include the election for the renovation of six of the twelve seats of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disab… Continue

Posted by Dr. Moussa Charafeddin on January 26, 2010 at 5:19pm

Nabil Eid

Success Story: Tuning To Life, Melody of hope and love


Dr .Alma Al Muhammad
Dr. Alma's name has a synonym in Arabic .It means the beautiful flourishing leafy tree. She is well named, especially when you know her closely .
"Fair as a star , when only one shining in the sky " as one of the English poets once said. When you visit our center, you may be lucky… Continue

Posted by Nabil Eid on January 20, 2010 at 6:25pm — 5 Comments

akram mohammed ahmed

khartoum event

Today is the last day of the workshop management of knowledge centers for disadvantaged communities, which is held under the patronage of ESCWA and the Organization of Gedaref, the program was full of useful discussion and exchange of expertise and experience through the participants from 14 countries, has been selected Nabil Eid secretary of networks of centers of knowledge in ESCWA, were invited To come to a gala dinner of the city administration, Africa's technological City.

Posted by akram mohammed ahmed on January 14, 2010 at 12:05pm

Dr. Moussa Charafeddin

Society for all

COPENHAGEN +15:
ACHIEVING A SOCIETY FOR ALL

A Society for All
Fifteen years ago the world’s leaders signed the Copenhagen Declaration committing themselves “to promoting social integration by fostering societies that are stable, safe and just and that are based on the promotion and protection of all human rights … and participation of all people” and to “ensure the protection and full integration into the economy and society of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups and persons”.
Since the time of… Continue

Posted by Dr. Moussa Charafeddin on January 13, 2010 at 8:54pm

akram mohammed ahmed

Marhaba in Sudan

Hello to all the brothers Participants in the workshop management of knowledge centers in disadvantaged communities and to their day third in the land of Sudan Khartoum

Posted by akram mohammed ahmed on January 13, 2010 at 3:06pm

Ashraf Latif Hanna

Inclusion

I find always persons say " we have to choose carefully children to be Included ", but I believe that most of children are liable to be Included if the procedures are effectively prepared. I believe also that children with disabilities show marked improvement, socially and in all aspects of life in integrated settings.

Posted by Ashraf Latif Hanna on January 9, 2010 at 10:36pm — 1 Comment

Human Rights: Historic Ratification by the European Community

the European Community ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). This ratification represents a major policy shift toward enforcing human rights obligations and putting disability on top of the human rights agenda: this is the first time in the European Union history that the Community is going to accede to an international human rights treaty.
Nine core international human rights instruments.
More details on the link:
http://www.inclusion-europe.org/einclude/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=29

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This group is a place where useful resources including free and open source assitiuve technology can be distributed
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Nabil Eid and Mohamad El Husseini are now friends
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A discussion started by Dr. Moussa Charafeddin was featured
Dear friends The Cairo conference on Social Role in Child Disability which was organized by the Arab Center for Child Development betwen Feb 2-Fb.4/2010 the final report is enclosed. You can see the importance of ICT in Inclusive Society promotion
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Dr. Moussa Charafeddin added a discussion
Dear friends The Cairo conference on Social Role in Child Disability which was organized by the Arab Center for Child Development betwen Feb 2-Fb.4/2010 the final report is enclosed. You can see the importance of ICT in Inclusive Society promotion
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the arab conference in Kuwait
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