November 2014

ICT for Empowering PWDsEveryone Counts

Abeer Shakweer, Ph.D.,Minister’s Advisor for Social Responsibility and Services

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

2

Background

Policies for PWDs

MCIT projects: supporting policies for PWDs.

Mission and Strategy Framework

Content

Background

Egypt Ratified the UNCRPD in 2008

The National Council for Disability’s Affairs was established in 2010

MCIT announced its ICT for PWDs strategy in 2012

PWDs was represented in the committee responsible for formulating the Egyptian constitutions in 2014

Around 14 million PWDs in Egypt

Equa

l Opp

ortu

nitie

s

Policies

Bett

er A

cces

sibi

lity

0f S

ervi

ces

Main Policies For PWDs in Egypt

Incl

usio

n

Acce

ssib

ility

Empl

oym

ent

5

Utilizing ICTs to improve the quality of life for PWDs by providing access to information & knowledge; new employment & socialization opportunities.

Mission

Mission and Strategy Framework

EDUCATION

TRAINING

EMPLOYMENT

InfrastructureResearch, Development & Innovation

Services

ParticipationEmpowerment

Inclusion

Strategy Framework

Inte

rnati

onal

Coo

pera

tion

Pillars

Bett

er A

cces

sibi

lity

0f S

ervi

ces

ICT4PWDs Strategy and Policies for PWDs

Com

mun

icati

on a

nd A

cces

s to

Kno

wle

dge

Educ

ation

Com

mun

icati

on a

nd A

cces

s to

kn

owle

dge

Educ

ation

Trai

ning

and

Em

ploy

men

t

Bett

er A

cces

sibi

lity

of S

ervi

ces

Assi

stive

Tec

hnol

ogie

s

Accessibility

Employment

Equal Opportunities

Inclusion

7

Completed 2013

Ongoing 2014

Ongoing 2014

Ongoing 2014

Ongoing 2014

Education

Technological Development for Inclusion schools

35 schools in 3 Governorates

300 Schools

Technological Development for special schools

All schools for the blinds: 26

All schools for the deaf: 199

schools for ppl with cognitive disability:

500

Inclusive School at Fayoum Governorate

Schools for the Blinds

The 1000 schools for PWDs initiativeEmployment

Equal Opportunities

Inclusion

Ongoing 2014Teacher’s training

8

Completed 2014

Completed 2013

Ongoing 2014

Technological Development for Centers for PWDs at Egyptian

UniversitiesAll public universities:

23

Digitization of the Curricula for student with hearing

and visual disabilities

Development of the Digital unified sign language

dictionary

Education

EmploymentEqual Opportunities

Inclusion

9

ICT for Social Services | Strategic Objectives

Provide better employment opportunities

ICDL for PWDs Grant

Training and Employment

Graduation Ceremony

Training for Employment Grant

ICDL Training for Employment Total for the two grants0

100

200

300

400

500

600

200

40

240

115

155

270

315

195

510

133

Ongoing taining Graduates Total Employed

InclusionEqual Opportunities

Employment

15 members from different governorates representing different

disabilities

A highly accessible portal for PWDswww.tamkeen.gov.eg

Forming the PWDs’ communication committee

Communication and Access to Knowledge

InclusionAccessibility

Better Accessibility of Services

ICT4PWD Observatory

PDWs Data

National network for

Hospitals and NCDA

Information on assistive technologie

s

Network infrastructure

Supporting the National Council for Disability’s Affairs

Database analysis, design & development

Equipment Provision

Accessibility

12

ICT for Social Services | Strategic Objectives

Innovation competition for ICT and mobile applications for PWDs: TAMKEEN

• Objectives:ˉ Provide affordable and customized applications to empower Arabic speaking PWDs.ˉ Create the ICT for PWDs industry in

Egypt

• Market Size:ˉ Egypt: 12- 15millionˉ Arab Countries: 55millionˉ Arab and African Countries: 230

million

Assistive Technologies

Submitted Accepted0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

29

6

69

17

Cycle I Cycle II

InclusionEqual Opportunities

Sign

lang

uage

rela

ted

Soft

war

e an

d ha

rdw

are

appl

icati

ons

Audi

o an

d H

aptic

tech

nolo

gy

Soft

war

e Ac

cess

ibili

ty id

eas

Sign

lang

uage

rela

ted

Soft

war

e an

d ha

rdw

are

appl

icati

ons

Gam

ing

appl

icati

ons

3D s

oftw

are

and

hard

war

e te

chno

logy

Arab

izatio

n of

Ass

istive

Te

chno

logi

es

Themes of the Competition

Assistive Technologies: Promote ICT RDI to serve PWDs Assistive Technologies

Inclusion

Equal Opportunities

Idea generation session

PWDs

IT DevelopersCompaniesResearchers

Identifying Themes of the Competition

Assistive Technologies

InclusionEqual Opportunities

15

The first unified educational digital dictionary for hearing impaired

ICT for Social Services | Strategic Objectives

Money and color reader and Object identifier

I can See

Toolkit to enable hearing impaired to interact with PCs

Lip reading

Assistive Technologies

InclusionEqual Opportunities

16

International Cooperation and knowledge Exchange

March 2012: announcing the strategy

This conference sets the bar high for other international conferences on inclusion & empowerment

Attended by representatives of

around 15 countries, 8 International

organizations and 36 exhibitors

Annual International conference for ICT4PWDs: Inclusion, Empowerment, Participation

April 2013

April 2014

Inclusion

17

Febre2014: Egypt succeeded to insert a question on developing

accessibility standards for mobile applications and for PWDs .

International Cooperation and knowledge ExchangeJune 2013: G3ict M-enabling

summit. Washington DC. Presetting the Egyptian case.

September 2013: ITU: Presenting

the Egyptian case

March 2014: ITU International conference on ICT

development

Inclusion

18

www.tamkeen.gov.eg