Doha: The Qatar Assistive Technology (Mada) held a workshop on enhancing digital accessibility to FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, followed by an exhibition that featured a wide range of innovations approved by the centre within its digital access plans.
The workshop and the exhibition were intended to introduce the electronic solutions and applications that obtained Mada digital accessibility accreditation and keeps the attendees posted on the most important updated offered by the centre in accessing to the tournament by the persons with disabilities and elderly, highlighting Qatar National Vision 2030 in the area of digital inclusiveness, national commitments to ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities, empowering and optimizing accessibility to the digital platforms, monitoring the institutions' performance and evaluating their electronic websites, applications and accreditation provisions.
In this context, Chief Executive at Mada Maha Al Mansouri said she was very proud to have the first more accessible edition of World Cup organized by the State of Qatar, praising the synergized efforts of all entities to provide an inclusive and prestigious soccer edition to the world, pointing out that Mada centre had been working closely in the national development process in pursuit of supporting the implementation of this vital national project through its strategic orientations that seek to enhance digital accessibility, adding that the center operates to make innovations adaptable to improve the eco-system to be further inclusive for all, in light of the fourth industrial revolution and the digital transformation process.
She noted that despite the challenges that encountered the diffusion of inclusive culture and digital accessibility, Mada had succeeded in achieving numerous strategic goals, represented in the professional projects and activities, supporting the development of research-based innovation, in addition to providing the digital accessibility services and the high-quality of assistive technology based on the best practices and global standards through empowering the entities in the vital sectors via smart partnerships held by the centre which resulted in concrete findings.
She pointed out that Mada managed to be at the forefront of the global centres outperforming 137 states after Qatar became No.1 on the global ranking in DARE Index, expressing the belief of the center's personnel in the sustainable and comprehensive living methods and forming new prospects for the world that candidly count on technology, innovation and development of smart economy, indicating that the volume of the centre’s fund during the past five years until this moment amounted to QR 7 million that was invested through Mada innovation program which was designed as an integrated eco-system based on the best global practices and comprises crucial pillars from and to persons with disabilities and elderly. (QNA)
