Qatar Assistive Technology Center - Mada, affiliated to the Ministry of Transport and Communications, launched two platforms on its website that support access to information from available sources in the education, culture and society sectors.
The first platform, which is dedicated for supporting comprehensive digital education, helps support distance education as an initiative that guarantees the comprehensiveness of education for all students, especially those with disabilities and job restrictions, and contains programs and open educational resources (OERs) available in the public domain of the Internet with an open license, where this platform provides a set of interactive online services for teachers, learners, parents and others involved in the education process.
It also provides the information, tools and resources necessary to support and enhance education in accordance with the principle of universal design for learning and a comprehensive digital learning environment.
In addition, the platform provides a variety of applications that are categorized into sections to improve specific skills such as reading, writing, cognition and mathematics, in addition to the accessible, designed and developed educational resources that have been approved by Mada Center to meet the needs of students of all levels, abilities and knowledge capabilities in general and students with disability in particular.
The second platform, culture and society support, contributes to enabling everyone to access information from available digital sources and services as an initiative aimed at enabling access for people with functional restrictions (persons with disabilities and elderly people) to the available electronic resources and services that an individual needs on a daily basis, such as government services, purchasing services, health services and many other useful and approved sources within one platform through which the individual can use digital access tools that support various job restrictions.
On this occasion, CEO of Mada Center Maha Al Mansouri said that the launch of these two platforms on the center’s website reflects our belief in our mission through which we seek to unleash the potentiality of all persons with functional restrictions (with disabilities and elderly people) through capacity-building and support for the development of digital platforms, noting that the two platforms were allocated in accordance with best practices and international standards to support access to information, digital resources and services available in the education, culture and society sectors.
Al Mansouri added that that the two platforms aim to facilitate access to information for all persons and ensure the full participation of persons with disabilities in education and community participation and enable them to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life through information and communication technology.
