TORINO 2006 PARALYMPICS WINTER GAMES March 10-19

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New technology to overcome disability

Seminar: “Sport and communication for everyone”.

Mar 13 2006

The Segretariato Sociale RAI is organising a seminar, on March 14, 2006, at the Centro di Produzione RAI in Torino, Museo della Radio (situated in Via Verdi 14).

In particular, activities and technologies will be presented that allowed the ‘’Ufficio pilota ad alta tecnologia informatica per il superamento della disabilita’(High Information Technology Pilot Office to Overcome Disability)” to become a point of excellence for the students of the Universita’ degli studi di Torino.

In the project some internships were employed among which, six people with a disability and two able-bodied people that thanks to the pilot office’s high technology integration of tetraplegics, paraplegics and visually impaired people was favoured.

During this office’s year and a half of activity, many issues proposed by the Segretariato Sociale RAI were looked into thoroughly, and particularly together with the organising committee of the “XX Olympic Winter Games and of the IX Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006” saw the office engaged in gathering news and information for the editorial staff of the Paralympic Website.

The creation of this facility, unique in its kind, was designed in co-operation with CETAD (Centro Eccellenza Tecnologie per Anziani e Disabili – Technology Excellence Centre for the Aged and for People with a Disalbility – a company with investments by Finpiemonte, Provincia di Torino, Comune di Torino, and Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus) and with the Unione Italiana Ciechi, that guided us in the choice of the most innovative solutions to knock down information technology barriers.

The companies (EASY LABS, QUALILIFE, PROGETTIAMO AUTONOMIA) that contributed to the creation of the Pilot Office will present the equipment supplied and the new projects which are currently being developed.

Furthermore the progress of a strongly innovative project will be presented that the Teche RAI in collaboration with CRIT and the Segretariato Sociale are currently experimenting and it involved in the automatic transcription of news as to allow people with a hearing impairment to read news correlated to multimedia files.

We would like to thank the following companies for contributing in the creation of the Pilot Office: EASY LABS, QUALILIFE, PROGETTIAMO AUTONOMIA


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