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  title info:
    title: Accessible technology and the developing world
  name:
    name part: Stein, Michael Ashley
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lazar, Jonathan
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 371 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), charts
  abstract: "Most research on information and communications technology (ICT) accessibility and innovation for persons with disabilities, whether in the fields of law, tech, or development, has focused on developed regions ("Global North") rather than developing parts of the world ("Global South"). The goal of this book is to increase awareness of ICT accessibility in developing areas, under three common themes. First, innovations created in developing states often get little attention, even though they are frequently less resource-intensive, and therefore more sustainable, than corresponding Global North solutions. Second, when Global South countries evolve their technology infrastructures (as many are doing now), it is important to avoid barriers to equal access for people with disabilities. Third, Global North design, development, and implementation techniques often will not transfer well to the Global South, and should not be applied without thought. Three international legal and policy initiatives ensuring accessibility and equal availability of ICT in developing areas are discussed: the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, and the Sustainable Development Goals. This book brings together a unique combination of authors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds (technology, law, development, and education), from non-governmental organizations that are part of the public zeitgeist (the World Wide Web Consortium and Benetech), significant United Nations entities (the World Bank and G3ict), universities in the developing world (Pakistan and Uganda) and the developed world (the United States and Norway), and Global North industrial labs innovating in the Global South (Microsoft Research, India), among others"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Global and regional perspectives. Development for all : how human rights break down barriers to technology / Marianne Schulze -- Addressing the drivers of digital technology for disability-inclusive development / Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo and Deepti Samant Raja -- Global trends for accessible technologies in the developing world : an analysis of the results of the digital accessibility rights evaluation index / H.E. Luis Gallegos, Martin Gould, and Alex Leblois -- Digital accessibility innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean / Francesca Cesa Bianchi -- Digital accessibility in the Asia-Pacific region / Nirmita Narasimhan -- The role of technical standards in improving digital accessibility in under-resourced regions and communities / Judy Brewer and Shadi Abou-Zahra -- Digital inclusion in the Global South : work globally, act locally / Betsy Beaumon -- Digital accessibility and intersectional discrimination / G. Anthony Giannoumis and Rannveig A. Skjerve -- Legal frameworks, design approaches, and applications. The relevance of the CRPD and the Marrakesh Treaty to the Global South's book famine / Paul Harpur and Michael Ashley Stein -- The patent system, assistive technologies, and the developing world / Amy L. Landers -- Accessible ICT as a ray of hope for disability rights in Pakistan / Marva Khan, Muhammad Atif Sheikh, and Abia Akram -- Design approaches for creating person-centered, context sensitive, and sustainable assistive technology with the Global South / Mario Andrés Chavarria and Klaus Schönenberger, Anthony Mugeere and Samia Hurst and Minerva Rivas Velarde -- Ludic design for accessibility in the Global South / Manohar Swaminathan and Joyojeet Pal -- A multi-country comparison of ICT and educational accessibility for blind students / Sachin Pavithran and Maria Hernandez Legorreta -- Ride-hailing as accessible transit : a case study of blind users in India / Vaishnav Kameswaran and Joyojeet Pal --The role of Ugandan public universities in promoting…
  note: edited by Michael Ashley Stein and Jonathan Lazar.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Assistive computer technology
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technology and people with disabilities
  subject:
    topic: Technologie informatique adaptée
  subject:
    topic: Technologie de l'information
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Technology and people with disabilities
  subject:
    topic: Assistive computer technology
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  classification: HV1569.5 .A23 2021eb
  classification: HM851
  classification: 362.40483
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    title info:
      title: Accessible technology and the developing world
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021
      edition: First editio.
    identifier: (DLC) 2021934835
    identifier: (OCoLC)1231959428
  identifier: 9780192585424
  identifier: 0192585428
  identifier: 9780192585417
  identifier: 019258541X
  identifier: 9780198846413
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 211026
    record change date: 20260318163532.8
    record identifier: in00005696366
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng