by David Indeje | Mar 15, 2024 | Accessibility, Community Networks, Highlights, kictanet post
The digital age offers a wealth of opportunities, but for millions of people with disabilities (PWDs), it can be a roadblock. A 2019 Kenya National Bureau of Statistics Monographic Analytical Report study reveals how PWDs face exclusion online. Beyond physical...
by David Indeje | Mar 11, 2024
Date: 15th March 2024 Time: 8:00 am–2:00 pm Place: To be shared alongside the invitation Introduction KICTANet is hosting a workshop empowering community networks to be more accessible to persons with disabilities. Background and Context The 2022 Kenya National...
by David Indeje | Feb 28, 2024 | Gender, Highlights, kictanet post
By Maryanne W. Waweru Jeriter Mutinda Mutisya, 49, is a businesswoman based in Machakos, in Kenya’s eastern region. Jeriter runs enterprises in the hospitality and real estate industries. Jeriter, a wife and mother of two sons aged 24 and 18 years old, is a woman...
by Florence Awino | Feb 26, 2024 | Accessibility, Community Networks, Highlights
Remarks from the Digital Accessibility Program We often think about disability through two narrow lenses: the medical and the social models. The medical perspective sees it as an individual problem, focusing on limitations and seeking solutions like...
by Nicodemus Nyakundi | Feb 22, 2024 | Accessibility, Community Networks, Digital Accessibility, Highlights, kictanet post
Statistically, when the World Bank states that 61% of Kenyans have access to the Internet, with only 31% of them coming from rural Kenya, it simply means that there is a whole lot of 69% of the Kenyan population in rural areas that are not connected to the Internet....