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Recommended Reading for October 12, 2010

By Annaham on 12 October, 2010

Darshak Sangavi at Slate: Should you crowdsource your medical problems? To be sure, many patients with complex or poorly understood medical problems like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis congregate in large virtual communities such as PatientsLikeMe, where they share details of their medical treatments and symptoms with each other—and occasionally even launch their own unregulated and informal [...]

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Signal Boost: Disability and Access in India

By s.e. smith on 6 August, 2010

Dear FWD readers, The Centre for Internet and Society (http://www.cis-india.org), a Bangalore (India) based organization, in association with UNESCO is working on a project on Disability and Access. Part of the project involves identifying and highlighting case studies on the positive use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in education for persons with disabilities in [...]

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Nominations for the 2010 Captioning Awards (Australia) to Close Shortly!

By Chally on 5 August, 2010

To give you a bit of background, the Deafness Forum of Australia is, according to their website, ‘the peak body for deafness and seeks solutions and advocates on issues for all Australians who are Deaf, have a hearing impairment or chronic disorder of the ear’. They’ve been working hard to to make cinemas more accessible, [...]

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