How ICT can empower youth and disabled in Botswana :: Mmegi Online

The Ministry of Transport and Communications recently held an ICT Pitso at GICC. Mmegi correspondent LERATO MALEKE highlights recommendations of the conference on how youth, women and people living with disability can be empowered through ICT applications and service

The ministry has assisted various institutions for people living with disabilities with ICT equipment, applications and services. There is a need for the ICT sector to take into account the needs of the people living with disabilities in the development of ICT programmes, applications and services.

At the Pitso, there were questions posed on how the ICT sector can ensure full participation of people living with disability in the mainstream of the economy through the use of ICT? How should these people participate in the various ICT structures in place now? What should be created to help the situation?

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How ICT can empower youth and disabled in Botswana

The Ministry of Transport and Communications recently held an ICT Pitso at GICC. Mmegi correspondent LERATO MALEKE highlights recommendations of the conference on how youth, women and people living with disability can be empowered through ICT applications and service

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