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New Global Board of Directors to Advance Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Education in Africa

All the recordings will be available on the inclusiveafrica.org website by the end of October. This live stream virtual event was sponsored by MasterCard Foundation, Safaricom PLC, Facebook, Ford Foundation, Uber, Google, FSD Kenya, and Eclectics.

Registration is open for accessible online event showcasing inclusive digital innovations

If you have a digital product, project or initiative that works, we would like to hear from you. Working together, sharing breakthroughs and learning is the only way we will continue to break down barriers.

Invitations are open for those who would like to nominate themselves to participate in the Inclusive Africa Hackathon or submit a project to be hacked. Both are free to enter – go to inclusiveafrica.org/hackathon

Global technology leaders Google, Facebook and Uber have already signed as sponsors and partners include G3ict and Access Israel.

inABLE operates eight assistive technology labs in six special primary and high schools for the blind in four Kenya counties (Kiambu, Meru, Siaya and Mombasa), and has provided assistive computer technology instruction to over 7,000 students.

The first inclusive assistive-technology computer lab for the blind in Thika, Kenya opened in summer 2009. Today, inABLE has given over 7,000 blind and visually impaired students the gift of computer skills.

The International Telecommunication Union announced that the inABLE Computer-Labs-for-the-Blind program in Kenya was among first five most voted WSIS Prizes Champions in the category Access to Information and Knowledge.

Microsoft Kenya’s Country Manager Mr. Kunle Awosika Lauds inABLE Computer-Labs-for-the-Blind Program.