‘Govt to do everything to make cities accessible’
Wednesday, 29 March 2017 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar City does not mean only signboards. The State Government would not lag behind and do everything possible to make the city accessible, be it information, communication, transport and the digital inclusion, said Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner R Balakrishna at the Bhubaneswar Urban […]
Odisha: Accessibility: Physical infra, digital inclusion on agenda for Bhubaneswar Smart City
Bhubaneswar: As part of its Bhubaneswar Urban Lecture Series, Bhubaneswar Development Authority in collaboration with well-known social service organisation Swabhiman, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd today organised a day-long workshop “Smart Accessibility Solutions in Bhubaneswar’’ to discuss on universal design and digital inclusion. While on the theme of Smart accessibility in Smart […]
Smart Cities’ Digital Divide: Call for Focus on Accessibility
By Express News Service | Published: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | Last Updated: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a sect of the society – the Persons with Disabilities have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility for the disabled today is not just limited to physical […]
Accessibility a basic right of PWDs
By Express News Service | Published: 29th March 2017 05:46 AM | Last Updated: 29th March 2017 05:46 AM | A+A A- | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a section of the society – the Persons with Disabilities – have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility […]
Smart Cities’ Digital Divide: Call for Focus on Accessibility
By Express News Service | Published: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | Last Updated: 28th March 2017 09:43 PM | BHUBANESWAR: In an age when information technology has become a way of life, a sect of the society – the Persons with Disabilities have been ignored to a large extent. Accessibility for the disabled today is not just limited to physical […]
Efforts to make smart city disabled-friendly
A speaker at the seminar in Guwahati on Wednesday. Picture by UB Photos Guwahati, March 24: Dispur today requested the organisations working for people with disabilities to prepare a blueprint on necessary interventions required to make Guwahati a differently-abled people friendly smart city. The request was made by additional chief secretary Ravi Capoor in a roundtable seminar […]
Making SMART Cities Accessible for Persons with Disabilities
on: March 24, 2017In: Community Persons with disabilities have often been neglected and excluded from the various plans, schemes and campaigns of the Government. A case in point is the SMART Cities Mission that has hardly any mention of accessibility for persons with disabilities. More importantly, with technology being the cornerstone of the SMART Cities initiative, the already existing […]
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