Wednesday, 7 January 2009
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Provide access to disabled in Malaysia
A community centre with broadband Internet will be built for the disabled in the Malaysian city of Kuching before the end of the year.
State director of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) Zulkarnain Mohd Yassin, said the facility would benefit about 400 disabled people in and around the city, capital of the state of Sarawak in East Borneo.
“The centre, with its special hardware and software, will give collective access to this group of people who have been under-served or marginalised in the ICT revolution,” he says.
The centre is expected to be especially beneficial for the blind as computer hardware and software for the blind and those with impaired hearing are expensive and beyond the reach of most of them.
The Sarawak Society for the Blind, which proposed the centre, had sought technical assistance from the MCMC.
Fifty-two centres, or two per parliamentary constituency, will be built by the Energy, Water and Telecommunications Ministry in Sarawak within the next two years.
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