Tomorrow, Tuesday May 19, 2009 from 15:30 in the setting of the Orchard House Museum Ruano (Lorca), the Technology Center of Information Technologies and Communications (centic) organized jointly with the national platform eVIA and the city of Lorca, under the auspices of the Directorate General of Telecommunications and Information Society and Cajamurcia Foundation, a major day of work whose aim is to motivate companies in the ICT sector to make development aimed at providing solutions social welfare and health.
The three main sections to be discussed will be: access to digital terrestrial television for the blind, deaf and other groups, whose physical barriers should not prevent access to this new technology section that will discuss what techniques can be applied.
Another is that for technological solutions that they can provide to those with a disability who carries the risk of social exclusion, which will delve into Virtual Reality, 3D or TV over the Internet.
Finally, it includes a section where you can glimpse the demand for technological applications for the disabled from the standpoint of citizens, to keep the social focus.
To accomplish this there will be professionals from different prestigious institutions such as the IMSERSO, Universidad de Córdoba, INTECO, CESyA, Technosite-Fundación ONCE, CIDAT or CERMI.
With all these actions, the centic, part of the Regional Technology Center, coordinated by the Ministry of Universities, Business and Research, through the Institute of Development, is becoming a reference not only regional but also nationally in terms of new technologies for social welfare and health, as indicated by the fact that over 80% of the attendees are from outside our region.
As proof of this, centic is also present in the organization, together with the municipality of Lorca, the ICT Week II NO-dependent for life, to be held on October 20 in the Centro Cultural de Lorca, framed within the activities of SICARM and have the presence, among others, people like CROEM president, Miguel del Toro, and Emilio Calatayud, known juvenile court of Granada.
Source: Red de Centros Tecnológicos