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About this episode

Understanding the role of ICTs as a tool to adequately address local needs and to respond to global development trends, The Trust for the Americas has utilized the ICT for Development (ICT4D) model to improve accessibility and inclusion among people with disabilities (PWDs) in Latin America. This approach includes establishing technology training centers for PWDs, to reduce the digital and learning divides in the region, and training models based on a multi-sector approaches to improve skills training and job inclusion rates among the PWDs population. This process has addressed critical social issues affecting PWDs, including access to technology, literacy, social and physical barriers to development and workplace issues.

• Release Date

  Oct 21, 2009

• Runtime

  26:37