For more information, contact
George Awad, UNESCO Office in Beirut
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Buidling websites that meet the needs of people with disabilities
02-12-2005 (Beirut)
A special training workshop on website development for NGOs that care
for people with special needs will take place in Chtoura, Lebanon
from 22 to 25 December 2005.
The workshop comes that is organized in cooperation with the Society
for the Human Rights of the Handicapped is part of a series of
training ativities aiming at developing web building skills of civil
society and NGO workers that are specialized in helping people with
special needs.
Implemented within the framework of the activities the UNESCO Beirut
Offices related to the Information for All Programme, the training
activity aims to help in capacity building of organizations dealing
with persons with special needs, in order to try to improve the
quality of their lifes.
Whereas this workshop is addressed to people in the Bikaa and Mount
Lebanon region another training activity is also planned for the
Northern region of Lebanon.
With over 10% of the world's population suffering from a variety of
disabilities. ICTs have the potential for making significant
improvements in the lives of these persons.
ICTs offer individuals the ability to compensate for physical or
functional limitations, thus allowing them to enhance their social
and economic integration in communities by enlarging the scope of
activities available to them.
By collaborating with other institutions that share these concerns,
UNESCO is seeking to realize the full potential of ICTs.
In this context, UNESCO organized at the World Summit on the
Information Society in Tunis last month a workshop providing a
platform for discussing policies in regard to ICT and persons with
disabilities during which representatives of governments, researchers
and leaders from civil society shared experiences and visions on how
ICTs can improve the lives of these persons.
More information about UNESCO's work regardinig ICTs and people with
disabilities:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20707&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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