Building a Movement through the Cities for All Global Compact and Campaign
World Enabled led a campaign of more than 130 organizations to ensure that cities around the world include persons with disabilities and older persons as equal stakeholders. With our partners, we hosted a series of advocacy efforts directly with partner governments, academic institutions, and industry allies. This resulted in three.
Smart Cities for All Global Initiative
G3ict and World Enabled launched the Smart Cities for All initiative to define the state of ICT accessibility in Smart Cities worldwide. SC4A's mission is to eliminate the digital divide for persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities programs worldwide. The initiative seeks to eliminate the digital divide
Empowering Leaders to Transform Disability Rights in Africa
African Youth with Disabilities: Raising our Voices for Inclusion was a six-day gathering of 50 youth with disabilities from 12 countries across Africa. World Enabled worked with the International Disability Alliance and the Open Society Foundations to support and foster young disabled leaders in Africa. We recruited the best and.
Breaking Boundaries through the New Media Academy - Inclusive Digital Storytelling
The New Media Academy was an 8-week after-school course in Digital Storytelling offered to high school students with and without disabilities in Reseda, California. The course utilized "agency enabling instruction" techniques to engage 20 diverse learners. Participants were recruited from segregated vocational training schools for individuals with intellectual disabilities and.
Meet the Silver Scorpion - Creating the World's First Disabled Cross Cultural Superhero
The Youth Ability Summit brought together adolescents with disabilities from Syria and the United States to not only share their experiences, ideas, and culture, but to create strategies promoting the rights of youth with disabilities. One strategy that the youth found exciting was developing a comic book that would promote
The Power of Inclusive Thinking - A Call for "Radical Inclusion" of Persons with Disabilities
"It wasn't the disability that changed my life, but rather the way society responded to a child that was different". This was the message from scholar and advocate Dr. Victor Pineda during his intervention at the World Bank-WikiStage event held October 2015 during the Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru.
RespectAbility - Spanish Disability Guide for Parents
World Enabled and RespectAbility fight against stigma and promote opportunities for people with disabilities. They joined forces to develop a Spanish and English language resource guide aimed at empowering Latinx communities in the US. We identified that that was a great need for culturally relevant content that will allow parents.
Partnerhip on Inclusion with the City of Knowledge
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UNICEF All Staff Training on Inclusive Development
World Enabled supported the development of the all staff Disability Orientation training video. This 40-minute, fully accessible multi-media training program provides a baseline understanding of inclusive development to diverse country representatives and partners. It includes thought provoking statements, resources and good practices from UNICEF and other partner organizations from across.
Dubai Public Policy Forum 2019 - Radical Inclusion: I love Smart Cities, But They Don’t Love Me Back, Yet!
Dr. Victor Pineda addressed an audience at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of government in the United Arab Emirates regarding cities' responsibilities to seize opportunities for innovation. This included adapting to the needs of their citizens including encouraging active participation in society by its'most vulnerable members. Dr. Pineda discussed the.
What It Means to be Human and How Brands Can Design for the True Inclusion of All of
For decades, Dr. Victor Pineda has been advocating for universal design for total human inclusion. He has encouraged policy makers and product designers to reevaluate their work and reflect on what it truly means to be human and who will ultimately be affected by their decisions. Every person faces vulnerabilities
Making Cities Inclusive
There are over a billion people with some sort of disability in the world, how are we changing the built environment to accommodate this? As well as wheelchair users, people with conditions from autism to asthma – hidden disabilities – have needs as well. Presenter Vishala Sri-Pathma spoke with Sara Marchant at.
Ciudades inclusivas ¿Cómo gestionar la diversidad? (June 2018)
Victor Pineda is an enthusiast of diversity in life, he was trained to contribute his energy and knowledge to the promotion and defense of the rights and dignity of people with disabilities. In this podcast, he explains the importance of taking functional diversity as a key aspect of cities and
Music Video: Catch Me by The Braves
"Catch Me" by the BRAVES is a life affirming music video, featuring hollywood actor Matthew Lilard (Scary Movie, Scooby Doo) and filmmaker and human rights advocate Dr. Victor Pineda. The video explores the limits of the human spirit and the power of self-expression.
Inclusive Design SME series featuring Victor Pineda
World Enabled worked with Microsoft and Slanted Light to develop a video for their inclusive design toolkit. The toolkit explores human-centered design to connect technology to people’s lives in meaningful ways, beginning with the basic ideas necessary to shift design thinking toward more universal solutions. It also includes design activities
Creating Leaders - The World Enabled Fellowship Program
World Enabled organized a workshop with a group of nearly 60 State Department Fulbright Fellows. The leading fellows were invited to apply to World Enabled's Fellowship program. The program provided mentorship and professional development opportunities for early and mid-career professionals from diverse backgrounds. "The Fellowship was one of the most
Cities for All Africa: Engaging Africities
In November 2018, World Enabled was actively engaged in the 8th Africités Summit in Marrakech. Africités is a Pan African event of the United Cities and Local Governments that mobilizes local governments, authorities, civil society, financial institutions and development partners across the African Contintent. During the summit, World Enabled drafted
