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  Participatory collection of disability data in cities to improve public service

  Kota Kita, an NGO from Solo City, Indonesia, generates a disability-inclusive profile of cities by collecting differentiated data in real time using a geo-tagging app. By involving people with disabilities, the results provide a basis for cities to take action to make them more disability-friendly.
  Kota Kita, Participatory Approach for Disability-Inclusive Cities Indonesia/Disability-Inclusive Cities Indonesia, Indonesia

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  Network of users with visual disabilities creating and

  growing its digital library

  Tiflolibros is a digital library for visually impaired people in the Spanish-speaking world, launched by the NGO Asociación Tiflonexos in Argentina. Since its launch in 2001 until 2021, more than 65,000 accessible books have been made available free of charge.
  Tiflonexos Association, Biblioteca Tiflolibros, Argentina

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  Young people trained as Disability Inclusion Facilitators to motivate employers

  The Make 12.4% Work initiative is led by young people with disabilities who are trained and certified as Disability Inclusion Facilitators. They train member organizations to become more inclusive. From 2018 to 2020, 124 organizations have become members and 5,700 people have benefited.
  Light for the World Austria, Make 12.4% Work-Initiative, Uganda

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  India's approach is characterised by its particularly inclusive and non-bureaucratic nature. As long as the converter ensures that converted formats are only accessed by persons with disabilities, the non-profit adaptation, reproduction, or communication to the public of a work in any accessible format is allowed.
  Government of India, India

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  How-To' Guides and Resource Directory for parents and caregivers

  Exceptional Lives provides free, easy-to-follow information for parents and caregivers of children and young adults with disabilities. The online platform offers "How-To" Guides using a unique decision tree software that allows parents to be interactive and limits the information to only what the family needs.
  Exceptional Lives, Inc, United States of America

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  A curriculum for advancing the UN CRPD – in six languages

  The aim is to create a flexible and adaptable yet comprehensive curriculum centred on the core concepts of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). By 2016 the curriculum has been utilized in training in more than 15 countries on six continents and has reached more than 5,000 disability advocates and allies.
  Syracuse University, Burton Blatt Institute, United States of America

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  Global accessibility and digital inclusion strategy for a multinational IT company

  With its Global Accessibility and Digital Inclusion Strategy, the global IT service provider Atos introduced a policy for accessibility and digital inclusion back in 2010, covering more than 70 country offices. Its measures focus not only on internal areas but also on the entire supply chain.
  Atos, Global Accessibility & Digital Inclusion Governance, United Kingdom

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  Supporting teachers with comprehensive reports on pupil ́s needs

  Using an elaborate database, a report is created describing what helps THIS pupil with THIS teacher in THIS class at THIS moment. The complex diagnose is then narrowed down to what the pupil ́s particular strengths are and what extra measures the child might require. These measures can be evaluated and shared with others.
  VCLB Gent - Flamish Center for Student Councelling, Belgium

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  Website and TV-channel with easy access to news and information

  Plena Inclusión España, a leading national NGO, launched Planeta Fácil, an easy-to-read news site for people with intellectual disabilities. The website presents current news in easy language, hosts blogs, and has developed an audio-visual programme, in cooperation with a mainstream news agency.
  Plena Inclusion Spain, Planeta Fácil, Spain

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  A national effort to promote employment in the ICT sector

  The programme equips people with various disabilities with the skills required for work in the ICT sector, and places them in appropriate companies. Launched in 2013, it has trained 467 people by 2016. 83% of them (one third women) are employed full-time in 16 companies and are paid entirely by their employers.
  MCIT - Egypt Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Employment Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Programme of 2013 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), in cooperation with Misr El Kheir Foundation (MEK), Chamber of Communications and Information Technology (CIT) and Daesn, Egypt, Egypt