Good morning. Hello everyone. It's a pleasure to be here at the IGF forum 2024 you know, 20 years I first participate the wises summit in Jonas, back in 2005 you know, I participate in the summit, representing, at that time my University, Virtual University of of Tunisia. Today, I'm honored and pleased to represent and privilege to represent the organization to which I belong, mada Calcutta, Assistive Technology Center, where I work as acting director of the digital accessibility services. But, you know, I'd like to like define myself informally, just saying that I'm passionate advocate for open and inclusive digital education for all. Initially, I prepared the presentation to shed lights on meta contributions to bridging the digital accessibility gaps. But, you know, the setting does it, but it doesn't, you know, fit to the setting to our panel yesterday. So I'm gonna just talk rapidly about my organization and shed light on, shed light on, you know, some of the meta flagship projects in terms of digital accessibility, with the ultimate goal to empower people with disabilities accessing technology in order to live independently and participate in all aspects of life. But let me first get back to what has been said by Dr Mohammed, actually, when he explained it and he focused on how we need to address disability and how to focus on the accessibility barriers that prevent people with disabilities to access technology. So you know, disability is often misunderstood, or, let me say, it's normally defined from the medical or the charity or the special needs perspectives. In my view, I think we need to focus more on the interactions between person with disabilities and the social barriers preventing them to, you know, avail all digital services and opportunities, and our work is to enhance access for them. Is to, I will not say, remove these barriers, but at least reduce these barriers. So that's we are. This is what we are doing in our organization at Qatar assisted technology. We are trying to enhance ICT accessibility in Qatar and beyond. Let me rapidly say a few words about about meta. So meta, it's non profit organization under the at that time, under the Ministry of communication, information technology. Now we shifted like two years ago with the Ministry of Social Development and Family, as I've purposely said we are focusing on enhancing ICT accessibility for person with disabilities in Qatar and beyond, and we are working closely with all the stakeholders involved in the field of digital accessibility in order to innovate and to, you know, create and develop and offer innovative digital solutions for all we are offering, in meta, a wide range of digital accessibility services as well as programs and activities. We have contacting a research agenda dealing with ICT accessibility and assistive technology. We have leveraging emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, AR VR in order to develop, you know, digital solutions for people with disabilities, let me talk a little bit about the digital accessibility services that we are offering. Basically, the services are around three pillars. The first pillar is the ICT accessibility services. So we are partnering with local entities, whether governmental or from the private private sector, to enhance the accessibility of their existing digital platforms. You know, websites, web based applications, kiosks and ATMs, mobile application, etc. So we are offering like consultation sessions with you know, these users, in order to let them make their digital platforms accessible. We are, you know, preparing, like auditing reports in order to check these websites and make them and help them to make these websites accessible. We are offering, also accreditation services to these you know users, so that we can make sure that their solutions are fully accessible for persons with disabilities. We are offering also assistive technology services. We have assistive technology assistance that taking step technology assessment of person with disabilities in order spot in order to identify which assistive technology solutions or devices that fit better their specific needs. And based on the assessment, we ensure the provision of assistive technology devices and solution for personal disabilities, based on our internal policy of 80 provision and also based on key priorities, like the areas, you know, key strategic sectors that we are focusing focusing On, for example, education sector, the employment sector and the community sector, offering also one on one training session for person with disabilities to help them use the assistive technology that We've provided them with. We also offer like continuous support for them in order to make sure that the assistive technology, devices and solution keep to their to their needs and but not least, we are offering also drainage and capacity services, not only for personal disabilities, but for all the stakeholders in order to foster city accessibility ecosystem. So we are delivering sessions for like teachers from the education sector, from the Ministry of Education, from universities, also for a web developer in order to make sure that they are developing a designing digital solution that are fully accessible and aligned with with the tip sometimes of Accessibility, our training services are delivered like in different training modalities. We have face to face training workshops, we have online chats, and we also contact like blended learning experiences. So our meta Academy initiative based on, you know, like you said, Dr Mohammed, learning management system that we tailored in order to, you know, cater to the needs of everyone, including person with the second part, I'd like to shed light a little bit on the academy project is that pillars, the first pillar is dealing with city framework. The second is the ICT at OER Open Education Russia and the delivery of accessible, open and accessible training materials. So first of all, I would like to take this opportunity, opportunity to record based on studies that we've been involved in. The key findings of this study, that is, there is a lack in terms of ICT accessibility. Also, there is a lack in terms of accessible open educational resources. And there is like no existing common competency framework that covers all the required competencies around the topics of ICT, accessibility and input design. My mic is not working. Okay? There is an interruption, right? Okay, but let me, let me first maybe recall the main motives that drive us. You know, working on this, on this, let me say proposals. You know, the data, the digital accessibility, variety valuation index. It's a benchmarking tool developed by gt ICT organization, global, you know, initiative or inclusive. ICT organization that aims at tracing the progress of countries in terms of offering accessible, digital, accessible services in the data index, the edition 2020, Cata has been ranked first with the score of it, 89 out of 100 however, there are many domains in the data index that needs more, you know, endeavor and more work in order to enhance access for people with disabilities to these different sectors like the ICT in Education, for all sector. And the key findings of the devendex report is that there is a lack of ICT accessibility competencies and expertise all over the world. There is also a lack in ICT accessibility courses. This means that, this means that students, basically, you know, in the field, in the major in the discipline of computer science, or it, continue to graduate with it without having any competencies or skills in the field of digital accessibility. Also employees that want to build their capacity in the field of digital accessibility, visibility and inclusion, they cannot find like professional training or education services and to learn more about these topics. Okay, and the most important thing is that the college, colleges of education, don't include in their curriculum topics around digital inclusive, digital education or digital accessibility to let them be able to create and develop accessible digital content. So based on this, you know, key findings, we proposed the ICT health competency framework, which is a comprehensive competency framework covering, you know, all the required competencies in the field of ICT accessibility. So there have six competency domain in this competency framework dealing with how to create accessible digital content, how to create accessible web content, how to become familiar with disability, accessibility and other competencies. So 21 to the six, there are six competency domains. Then we developed it also common repository, hosted on the OER Commons platform. It is called ICT health competency framework in which we are gathering all the accessible, open educational resources around the teams of ICT accessibility and inclusive design, and we are using this open educational resources to contact training workshops and to provide continuous online learning experiences. Okay, I got the stop now.