Winners of first ‘ICT 4 Inclusion Challenge’ in Africa announced
Winners from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa existing their modern solutions for inclusive education
Paris, France – December three, 2021
The ICT four Inclusion Challenge (ICT4IC) aims to shape inclusive education for people today with disabilities in Africa. The 3 profitable groups have been presented with their awards these days during the ceremony which took location virtually, livestreamed from Atos’ headquarters in Bezons and its offices in Munich. The competitiveness observed 202 applications with in excess of four hundred individuals from 37 countries all over the planet compete.
The competitiveness was organized by Atos and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf for German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Advancement (BMZ) together with the Make-IT Alliance. Electronic inclusion stands at the heart of Atos’ raison d’etre and materializes into Atos’ experience portfolio, with certain solutions aiding people today with momentary or long-lasting disabilities to get the job done devoid of barriers in the electronic workplace.
The purpose of the problem is to produce electronic improvements which are intended to increase accessibility to education for these with disabilities in Africa. The groups have been asked to post a electronic or specialized innovation (concept, mock-up or evidence-of-thought (PoC)) that supplies or improves accessibility to education for kids, youths and/or older people with disabilities in Africa. This could be a electronic gadget or application electronic assistive systems an concept to raise recognition for inclusive education making use of electronic systems and accessibility solutions for on the net discovering environments.
Soon after an original first round in which 10 groups have been chosen by 24 judges to go to a 2-7 days digital bootcamp, the 9 specialists powerful remaining jury panel, designed up of Atos executives as nicely as specialists from GIZ, the personal sector, civil society and worldwide organizations, chose 3 finalists. These are:
- onest prize and competitiveness winner: ‘Vinsighte’, Nigeria
Vinsighte is a looking at application / application that can make use of Artificial Intelligence to assist the visually impaired to examine conveniently. It is effective by scanning by way of texts on textbooks and looking at the textbooks aloud to the visually impaired person. The team received €6,500.
2nd prize: ‘Virtual E&T’, South Africa
This tailored app supplies accessible and affordable Digital Education and learning and Education Portal for people today with mental disabilities. The team received €2,500.
threerd prize: ‘Talking Charts’, Kenya
This option addresses the accessibility difficulties of details visualization for the people today with visible impairment and blind people today by way of artificial speech and car-captioning. The team received €1,000.
Just about every participant in each individual of 3 profitable groups was awarded a devoted three-thirty day period mentorship program at Atos starting in January 2022, as nicely as monetary prizes and an prospect to pitch to be component of Atos Scaler, the Group’s accelerator program.
Commenting on these effects, Udo Littke, Head of Atos in Central Europe claimed “Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants! I’m blown-away by the creativity and good quality of the entries.Access to education is just one of the greatest barriers to inclusion for kids, younger folks and older people with disabilities in Africa and electronic improvements can enable to triumph over this problem by taking away barriers to education for folks with disabilities. We’re quite proud to motivate the new era to enable shape the inclusive education in Africa”.
The judging panel was diligently chosen to offer experience in the fields of education, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), innovation, accessibility, and incapacity inclusion as nicely as regional African perspectives. The competitiveness entrants needed to be long-lasting people of an African region or non-people teaming up with an African group, proving that their option is not yet quickly out there on the marketplace and encouraging that people today of disabilities are either component of the team or integrated into the item growth procedure.
To locate out much more, make sure you go to https://ict4inclusionchallenge.net/ .
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Photograph one: Oluwatomisin Kolawole from “Vinsights” Photograph 2: Santie Terreblanche , Thomas Bezuidenhout, Taryn Du Toit, Mpilo Khumalo from “Digital E&T” and Photograph three: Eric Maina Wamugu from “Chatting Charts”
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