Winners of first ‘ICT 4 Inclusion Challenge’ in Africa announced
Winners from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa current their ground breaking remedies for inclusive instruction
Paris, France – December 3, 2021
The ICT 4 Inclusion Obstacle (ICT4IC) aims to condition inclusive schooling for people today with disabilities in Africa. The a few profitable groups have been offered with their awards today in the course of the ceremony which took put nearly, livestreamed from Atos’ headquarters in Bezons and its workplaces in Munich. The opposition saw 202 apps with over 400 members from 37 international locations all around the planet contend.
The level of competition was arranged by Atos and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf for German Federal Ministry for Financial Cooperation and Improvement (BMZ) collectively with the Make-IT Alliance. Digital inclusion stands at the heart of Atos’ raison d’etre and materializes into Atos’ expertise portfolio, with specific answers encouraging people with short term or long term disabilities to get the job done with out boundaries in the digital workplace.
The aim of the problem is to produce electronic innovations which are designed to make improvements to entry to training for these with disabilities in Africa. The groups ended up questioned to submit a electronic or specialized innovation (strategy, mock-up or proof-of-strategy (PoC)) that provides or improves obtain to schooling for small children, youths and/or adults with disabilities in Africa. This could be a digital product or software digital assistive systems an idea to elevate recognition for inclusive education and learning utilizing electronic systems and accessibility options for online studying environments.
Following an first 1st round in which 10 teams have been selected by 24 judges to show up at a 2-7 days virtual bootcamp, the 9 industry experts sturdy closing jury panel, created up of Atos executives as well as professionals from GIZ, the private sector, civil culture and intercontinental businesses, selected 3 finalists. These are:
- 1st prize and competitiveness winner: ‘Vinsighte’, Nigeria
Vinsighte is a looking through computer software / software that makes use of Synthetic Intelligence to support the visually impaired to go through conveniently. It works by scanning as a result of texts on books and examining the textbooks aloud to the visually impaired consumer. The staff won €6,500.
2nd prize: ‘Virtual E&T’, South Africa
This customized app gives available and very affordable Virtual Education and Coaching Portal for people today with intellectual disabilities. The group won €2,500.
3rd prize: ‘Talking Charts’, Kenya
This option addresses the accessibility worries of facts visualization for the individuals with visual impairment and blind people as a result of synthetic speech and vehicle-captioning. The crew won €1,000.
Every participant in just about every of a few successful groups was awarded a committed 3-thirty day period mentorship program at Atos setting up in January 2022, as properly as monetary prizes and an opportunity to pitch to be section of Atos Scaler, the Group’s accelerator software.
Commenting on these benefits, Udo Littke, Head of Atos in Central Europe stated “Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants! I’m blown-away by the creativity and good quality of the entries.Accessibility to schooling is a person of the finest limitations to inclusion for youngsters, youthful persons and grownups with disabilities in Africa and digital improvements can support to triumph over this problem by eradicating boundaries to training for people with disabilities. We’re pretty very pleased to encourage the new technology to aid condition the inclusive education and learning in Africa”.
The judging panel was diligently picked to present skills in the fields of training, Facts and Communication Technological innovation (ICT), innovation, accessibility, and disability inclusion as properly as regional African views. The competitiveness entrants desired to be long-lasting people of an African region or non-inhabitants teaming up with an African corporation, proving that their remedy is not nonetheless easily offered on the sector and encouraging that people of disabilities are either element of the staff or incorporated into the solution development course of action.
To uncover out far more, you should go to https://ict4inclusionchallenge.web/ .
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Photograph 1: Oluwatomisin Kolawole from “Vinsights” Photo 2: Santie Terreblanche , Thomas Bezuidenhout, Taryn Du Toit, Mpilo Khumalo from “Virtual E&T” and Image 3: Eric Maina Wamugu from “Chatting Charts”
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