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The international network for post graduate students in the area of ICT4D

The starting point for everything you ever wanted to know about captioning, audio description, Web accessibility, and related topics. Your host: Toronto journalist, author, and accessibility consultant Joe Clark, dubbed “the king of closed captions” by the Atlantic Monthly.

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There are a lot of great ideas floating around about how Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) and technology in general can help to rebuild Haiti.  I hope these ideas keep coming.  I would love to see international development organizations, aid agencies and non-profits in general open up more to ideas on how technology can improve the lives of the people they are trying to support as well as facilitate coordination and program implementation. But I also hope that the technology folks who haven’t worked in a crisis context such as that in Haiti will lend an ear to those who have experience working in past disasters and on-going development programs, human rights work, volunteer initiatives and advocacy. Those experiences shouldn’t be tossed out as old-school.  Good programs and experiences exist that can be examined, processed and built on.

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Helps people to use mobile technology to solve challenges in the developing world