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Submitted by ctv_en_4 on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 18:12
The Vietnam Blind Association and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) jointly held a workshop in Hanoi on August 6 to support the blind in accessing and applying information technology (IT) in their daily life.

According to Nguyen Xuan Huong, vice president of the association, Vietnam has around 1 million visually impaired people, including 600,000 blind people. Most of them have low education levels and 90 percent know nothing about computer sciences.


Since 2004 with assistance from several foreign organisations, the association has carried out a programme on “IT accessibility and application” for its members across the country. As a result, some 150 blind people have gained access to information technology each year. By using e-library services, many blind people have studied foreign languages themselves and registered for training courses at home and abroad. Some even have successfully applied for jobs on the Internet.


At the workshop, delegates discussed ways to help the blind use information on the Internet efficiently. However, it is not an easy task because service providers have not paid much attention to providing technical support for the blind. Currently, only 12 out of 63 provinces and cities have established informatics centres to run elementary courses on IT.

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