Category: Sub-committee on Information, Communications and Technology

NCDA Sub-committee on Information, Communications and Technology

RP TEAM Bags 2 “Global IT Challenge Grand Prizes and 1 Special Award in Korea

Our 6-man “Make the Right Real Team Philippines” brought home 3 awards, 2 grand champion  and a special award in e-Life, e-Tools and slogan making contests in ‘Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities’ in Song Do University, Incheon, Korea.  Young champs are Ezekiel John Erpelo (MCCID Institute of Technology), Caroll Ann de Belen (Manila continue reading : RP TEAM Bags 2 “Global IT Challenge Grand Prizes and 1 Special Award in Korea

NCDA Cheers Delegates to Korea’s “ Global Challenge for Youth with Disabilities”

Pinch-hitting for ED Carmen Reyes-Zubiaga, DED Matt Lee Jr., met the 5-man team for this world event on October 29-November 2, 2012 in Incheon, Korea.  He helped find the team’s name – “MAKE THE RIGHT REAL – PHILIPPINES,  adopting the new Decade’s tagline, with the theme: I.T.’s More Fun in the Philippines”.  The young delegates continue reading : NCDA Cheers Delegates to Korea’s “ Global Challenge for Youth with Disabilities”

RONEL DEL RIO, One of UN-ESCAP’s 7 “Promoters” of the New Decade in AP

Batangas Governor’s Advocate Mr.  Ronel del Rio, the only Filipino chosen by the United Nations-Economic and Social Commission in the Asia Pacific (UN-ESCAP), joins six others  from other AP countries,  as official ‘PROMOTERS’’ of the “3rd Decade of Persons with Disabilities”, 2013-2023. Ronel with many hats, takes his role as Governor Vilma Santos-Recto’s Advocate’s most continue reading : RONEL DEL RIO, One of UN-ESCAP’s 7 “Promoters” of the New Decade in AP

The New Face of the COMELEC Website

Fresh from winning their “PWD-friendly Website” Award at the 34th NDPR Week, COMELEC  proudly launched their new website’s accessible features  last August 15, 2012, in support of the “Fully Abled Nation’s” drive for  disability-inclusive elections. To fully access PWDs to local/global socio-economic opportunities and push their “RIGHT TO INFORMATION”  called for in the “UN-Convention on continue reading : The New Face of the COMELEC Website

COMELEC, DILG and DOH, 34th NDPR Week’s ‘PWD-friendly’ Websites Awardees

For the 34th NDPR Week, 3 strategic government agencies DILG, DOH and COMELEC bagged the “PWD-friendly Website Awards, after complying with the NCDA-NCC Joint Circular on Web Accessibility, to boost the sector’s “RIGHT TO INFORMATION” towards socio-economic opportunities. This joint project of the National Computer Center-ICTO, Philippine Web Accessibility Group and NCDA, would not have continue reading : COMELEC, DILG and DOH, 34th NDPR Week’s ‘PWD-friendly’ Websites Awardees

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Hosts Web ACcess Workshop for COMELEC

Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG), NCDA’s online advocacy group on web accessibility,  represented by its President and MCCID Institute of Technology Training Director Mr. Jojo Esposa,  as  Resource Person,  shares hands-on techniques to make websites accessible to persons with disabilities .                             continue reading : International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Hosts Web ACcess Workshop for COMELEC

MAKE THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION REAL FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) Deputy Executive Director Mateo A. Lee, Jr. (3rd from left) presents a “PWD-Friendly Website Award” Certificate to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Assistant Secretary Vilma B. Cabrera in recognition of the Department’s compliance to the Web Accessibility Standards set by the Philippine Website Accessibility Group represented by continue reading : MAKE THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION REAL FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES