Η Ολλανδέζα Neelie Kroes, Αντιπρόεδρος της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής και Επίτροπος για την Ψηφιακή Ατζέντα της Ευρώπης (European Commissioner for Digital Agenda) από το 2010, μιλάει για τα σχέδιά της όσον αφορά στην προσβασιμότητα όλων των Ευρωπαϊκών ιστοσελίδων δημόσιων υπηρεσιών από τα 80 εκατ. Ευρωπαίων πολιτών που εμφανίζουν σήμερα κάποια αναπηρία ή ανικανότητα.
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An alternative British Christmas video!
A cool poetic Xmas message – also inspired by the Paralympic Games in London! And it rhymes!
Ο πρόεδρος της Ανεξάρτητης Αρχής Δημοσίων Συμβάσεων στον Real FM
Ο αντεισαγγελέας Εφετών κ. Βασίλης Φλωρίδης, πρόεδρος της Ενιαίας Ανεξάρτητης Αρχής Δημοσίων Συμβάσεων και Κεντρικού Ηλεκτρονικού Μητρώου Δημοσίων Συμβάσεων, έδωσε μια εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσα συνέντευξη στο Νίκο Χατζηνικολάου στον Real FM 97,8, στις 17/12/2012.
Ακούστε τη συνέντευξη (http://www.real.gr/VideoViewer.aspx?FileType=4&FileName=196191.mp3) και δώστε προσοχή στο σημείο (μετά το 2′) που μιλάει για τις αλόγιστες δαπάνες στο χώρο της Υγείας, για την κλοπή δημοσίου χρήματος και τις απάτες, όπως χαρακτηριστικά λέει, δίνοντας για παράδειγμα την ιστορία με τον περίφημο ιό από το «κουνούπι του Νείλου», μια απάτη 1,2 εκατομ. ευρώ!!
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Facing bias, loss of children, disabled parents should get more support
Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities since Congress passed landmark legislation on their behalf in 1990. And yet advocates say barriers and bias still abound when it comes to one basic human right: To be a parent.
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13 Ways To Enhance Your Child’s Social Skills And Make Friends
Making friends can be a challenge for some children and adults with special needs. They may lack confidence or have difficulty developing the necessary social skills. But there are ways you can help teach your child to overcome their fears and make friends.
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Γονείς με αναπηρία παλεύουν για τα δικαιώματά τους στις Η.Π.Α. [Video]
Οι Αμερικανοί πολίτες με αναπηρία κέρδισαν με μακροχρόνιες διεκδικήσεις και μεγάλες κινητοποιήσεις την κατοχύρωση βασικών δικαιωμάτων τους σε σχετική νομοθεσία το 1990. Όμως, μια νέα έκθεση του Εθνικού Συμβουλίου για την Αναπηρία (National Council on Disability) υπογραμμίζει πως ακόμα και σήμερα υπάρχουν πολύ μεγάλα εμπόδια όσον αφορά σε ένα βασικό ανθρώπινο δικαίωμα: το να είσαι γονέας.
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ATLEC On The Road!
ATLEC (Assistive Technology Learning Through A Unified Curriculum), a 2 year project partially funded by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning program, is steadily progressing in its work, trying to fill the current gap concerning the ICT AT training of European citizens with disabilities.
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Tammy Duckworth: Τhe first disabled woman in USA Congress
Meet Tammy Duckworth, who was just elected to Congress from Illinois’ 8th District. She’s a decorated combat vet, making her the first woman vet, let alone combat vet, elected to a major political office in the United States. Did I mention that she’s also biracial, trilingual and disabled? She’s pretty much a conservative nightmare, and may I just say: she is a complete and utter badass.
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ENIL Personal Assistance Survey
ENIL – European Network on Independent Living is in the process of carrying out a European survey on personal assistance. The goal of the survey is to gain detailed information on the situation of personal assistance services in as many of the EU member states as possible and also to have a proposal for model legislation for personal assistance as per Independent Living (IL) ideology.
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Really Useful Things – Clever tips & practical solutions for independence in daily life
Really Useful Things was created in order to make life easier for disabled, older and injured people. And because nobody wants their home to look like a hospital ward, those products are more than just Really Useful – they also look good and fit in with everyday life.
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"The Ride": a road-movie of four men in wheelchairs
Strap yourself in as four Aussie blokes swap wheelchairs for quad bikes and embark on the ride of their lives. This documentary charts their 5,000km adventure across the outback, as they visit the crash sites where their lives changed forever. Three men are paraplegics and one a quadriplegic, making this no ordinary road movie.
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How Google makes its products accessible to the disabled
For many, the rise of ubiquitous computing, touchscreen smartphones, mobile tablets and powerful Web applications is making life easier and more organized. But for those people living with disabilities, who can’t see, using a touchscreen smartphone or tablet can be a frustrating experience. For people who can’t hear, the unifying power of YouTube may be lost.
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The all-terrain wheelchair < $200 [Video]
How do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200? MIT engineer Amos Winter guides us through the mechanics of an all-terrain wheelchair that’s cheap and easy to build — for true accessibility — and gives us some lessons he learned along the road.
euronews futuris: A world without limits [Video]
New technologies are blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual world. The brain can control a machine, and even perceive it as its own body. Can that improve our lives?
At Barcelona University, scientists are working on a European Research Project to link a human brain to a robot using skin electrodes and video goggles so that the user feels they are actually in the android body wherever it is in the world.
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Πάνος Τριανταφύλλου: αθλητής ξιφασκίας σε αμαξίδιο [Video από συνέντευξη]
Μια πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα συνέντευξη του Πάνου Τριανταφύλλου για την παραπληγία, την ξιφασκία και γενικότερα τη ζωή, που προβλήθηκε στις 7/11 στον Alpha.
Merck halts cancer drug supply to Greek hospitals
Reuters FRANKFURT, November 3 – Merck, the German pharmaceuticals group, is no longer delivering the cancer drug Erbitux to Greek hospitals, a spokesman said on Saturday, the latest sign of how an economic and budget crisis is hurting frontline public services.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women speaks about violence against women with disabilities
A report submitted to the General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo, provides an overview of the issue of violence against women with disabilities.
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Use of restraint on people with disabilities is considered inhuman treatment by ECtHR
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held in the recent case Bureš vs Czech Republic that both the application of restraint on a person with mental disability and the State’s failure to take measures to prevent torture and ill treatment constitute serious infringements to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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Iranian patients suffer most from sanctions [Video]
Desperately waiting for life-saving medications; this is the fate of many Iranian patients, whose lives are at stake due to the shortage of medicines resulting from the unilateral sanctions by the US and European Union against Iran over its civilian nuclear energy program.
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Amid Cutbacks, Greek Doctors Offer Message to Poor: You Are Not Alone
ATHENS — As the head of Greece’s largest oncology department, Dr. Kostas Syrigos thought he had seen everything. But nothing prepared him for Elena, an unemployed woman whose breast cancer had been diagnosed a year before she came to him.
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