David Banes, Deputy Director of Mada, Qatar’s Assistive Technology Center, shares his latest insights on assistive technologies with us! Earlier this year I had the opportunity to travel to Orlando in the American state of Florida for a major assistive technology conference. The conference was a success despite the hotel catching fire and a tornado touching down in [...]
28 Mar
The big news in Qatar today was the announcement from ictQATAR that the government is stepping up to build a national broadband network in the country. A new company – the Qatar National Broadband Network Company – will be tasked with accelerating the current rollout of fiber-to-home, with a goal of at least 95% coverage [...]
23 Mar
David Banes, Deputy Director of Mada, Qatar’s Assistive Technology Center, shares his latest insights on assistive technologies with us! People all around the world will be celebrating the 5th birthday of Twitter this week. Here in Qatar, tweeps (term used to describe Twitter users) will be getting together at Aspire Park for the Doha Twestival. Like many others [...]
16 Mar
For many of us, social media is the way we receive our news and watch events unfold. We know what is going on from Tweets, Facebook posts, virally spreading YouTube videos and photostreams on Flickr. This is true of profound events, such as the revolutions in the Arab world and the tsunami in Japan, but [...]
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