Asia-Pacific
Disability Apps, Cards in Japan to Replace Paper Certificates for Ease of Use | Best Brothers Group of Companies
JAPAN: The process of acquiring and using disability certificates has long been cumbersome and impractical, but with plastic cards and smartphone apps gaining ground, things could get much simpler. Toshihito Isoya shows his Mirairo ID at Nakai Station...
Ability Foundation Announces EmployABILITY 2019 Job Fair for Persons with Disabilities | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, Events, News, November 15 2019INDIA: Ability Foundation has announced EmployABILITY 2019, the pioneering job fair for qualified persons with disabilities, to be held in Chennai on Tuesday 17 December 2019. EmployABILITY, the trend-setting job opportunities fair for persons with...
Pitch for Canberra to Host Asia Pacific’s Accessible Tourism Conference and Expo | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, Assistive Technology, Tourism, November 11 2019AUSTRALIA: With the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability commencing public hearings this week, the general public will be forced to confront how we have often failed to...
IIT Madras Launches Unique Wheelchair at Affordable Price | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, Assistive Technology, News, November 6 2019INDIA: A new affordable ‘standing wheelchair’ that enables persons with disabilities to shift between standing and sitting positions independently, has been indigenously designed by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in...
Course Aims to Provide Training to Create Accessible Homes | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, Built Environment, October 23 2019INDIA: Vidya Sagar, the prominent Chennai NGO has finished a three-month course to create a pool of professionals who can support people with disabilities and the elderly to become independent in their homes....
Article 15 of Indian Constitution Needs Amendment: UN Committee Experts | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, October 21 2019INDIA: The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is composed of 18 international independent experts, who monitor implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the findings...
App Aims to Make Visual Contrast a Mainstream Concern in the Built Environment | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, Built Environment, October 21 2019Get Luminance has been developed from research and provides an empirical basis for calculating luminance. Get Luminance measures what is ‘seen’ by a photograph and reflects the conditions experienced by users. It...
Turkey Provides Support to Persons with Disabilities in Djibouti | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Africa, Asia-Pacific, Assistive Technology, Europe, September 25 2019TURKEY: Turkey’s state-run aid agency has distributed a total of 200 wheelchairs and vocational supplies to disabled people in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, according to a statement on...
Singapore Leads Asia in Resilience to Aging and Automation | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, News, September 20 2019SINGAPORE: The Ageing and Automation Resilience Index by Mercer and Marsh & Mclennan Insights released on Wednesday (18 September) ranked Singapore as the Asian nation that is most resilient to ageing and automation....
Royal New Zealand Ballet Awarded for Accessibility | Best Brothers Group of Companies
Asia-Pacific, News, September 19 2019NEW ZEALAND: The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s commitment to making ballet accessible to diverse communities around New Zealand was recognised in Parliament tonight (subs: 6pm Wednesday 11 September) when it received the Arts...
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