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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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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