Smart Cities For All Paves The Way To Digital Accessibility In Cities
James Thurston, Vice President of G3ict and Dr. Victor Pineda, President of World Enabled lead a discussion at the NextCity World Stage in Quito, Ecuador. City leaders, IT managers, and entrepreneurs that embrace Smart City solutions care about ICT, not for its own sake, but instead for the ways these solutions can help governments, communities, and […]
NOW is the Time to Create Smart Cities for All
James Thurston ICT Accessibility Subscribe to Newsletter Tell a Friend Print this Page 04/18/2017 The global trend toward smart cities is exciting. Smart Cities programs, technologies, and solutions are creating innovative approaches to providing municipal services and engaging with citizens. But G3ict and World Enabled launched our joint Smart Cities for All initiative because when it comes to the digital inclusion […]
“Smart city không được bỏ rơi người khuyết tật”
Đình Chính (Thực hiện)07/04/2017 05:53 “Khi tính đến việc lập smart city (thành phố thông minh) bằng cách xây mới hay hoán chuyển một thành phố cũ, cần nhận thức rằng mọi người dân – bao gồm người khuyết tật – đều phải được hưởng lợi từ việc tiếp cận công nghệ”. Đó là chia […]
Digital push must be disability-inclusive
Javed Abidi April 03, 2017 00:02 IST Updated: April 03, 2017 07:50 IST As India catapults towards a digital economy, making ICT accessible to the disabled is a must Around 8-10% of India’s population lives with disabilities, with an equal number constituting the aged. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have the potential to significantly impact […]
‘Govt to do everything to make cities accessible’
Wednesday, 29 March 2017 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar City does not mean only signboards. The State Government would not lag behind and do everything possible to make the city accessible, be it information, communication, transport and the digital inclusion, said Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner R Balakrishna at the Bhubaneswar Urban […]
Odisha: Accessibility: Physical infra, digital inclusion on agenda for Bhubaneswar Smart City
Bhubaneswar: As part of its Bhubaneswar Urban Lecture Series, Bhubaneswar Development Authority in collaboration with well-known social service organisation Swabhiman, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd today organised a day-long workshop “Smart Accessibility Solutions in Bhubaneswar’’ to discuss on universal design and digital inclusion. While on the theme of Smart accessibility in Smart […]
Smart Cities’ Digital Divide: Call for Focus on Accessibility
By Express News Service | Published: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | Last Updated: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a sect of the society – the Persons with Disabilities have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility for the disabled today is not just limited to physical […]
Accessibility a basic right of PWDs
By Express News Service | Published: 29th March 2017 05:46 AM | Last Updated: 29th March 2017 05:46 AM | A+A A- | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a section of the society – the Persons with Disabilities – have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility […]
Smart Cities’ Digital Divide: Call for Focus on Accessibility
By Express News Service | Published: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | Last Updated: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a sect of the society – the Persons with Disabilities have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility for the disabled today is not just limited to physical […]
Efforts to make smart city disabled-friendly
A speaker at the seminar in Guwahati on Wednesday. Picture by UB Photos Guwahati, March 24: Dispur today requested the organisations working for people with disabilities to prepare a blueprint on necessary interventions required to make Guwahati a differently-abled people friendly smart city. The request was made by additional chief secretary Ravi Capoor in a roundtable seminar […]
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