IT – New Doors to Information for Everyone
”All that Internet and computer-stuff – that’s for the winners only. For those who know already”, they say. But IT can also be useful to you if you are having reading problems. Or if you are visually handicapped. Often it’s just about having the courage to try out the offers you have on your hands.
The most interesting and innovative projects of the Digital North Jutland may be those opening a door to information technology for the citizens of North Denmark, who would normally not be able to make use of it. If you are having problems with your reading and writing skills, you will normally not benefit a whole lot from the Internet. However, a website is now actually making it possible to have all texts read aloud – if only they are in Danish. ”The read-aloud facility” is a machine but it is actually easily understood. And you can do something else while the computer is reading aloud for you.
If you are blind or visually impaired, using the computer can be difficult. But you can join courses, and a range of various aids are at your disposal. Learn more about it on the www.synsinstituttet.dk or www.netkreds.dk websites - both established as part of a DDN project.
Imagine loosing your ability to talk to your fellow human beings overnight! You keep trying – but not even your family understands what you are saying. This is exactly what many aphasiacs have been experiencing. But at the County of North Jutland Institute of Language, Speech and Brain Disorders, experiments are performed for the distance teaching of aphasiacs. In their homes, in an environment where they feel safe, they can attend classes via their computers.
Distance teaching can also be a solution to help a great number of mentally afflicted people. To those feeling uneasy – or maybe even, anxiety – by the mere thought of being confined in a room surrounded by strangers, distance teaching might be a way to learn new things – and maybe even break the isolation and meet new people via the Internet.
But no matter if you are coping with challenges that are a drag in you daily life, or you just never learned to use a computer, the first step is always the hardest. And once that first step has been made, things start moving fast! This is a fact proven by a growing number of computer-literate senior citizens of North Denmark. IT savvy seniors have even got their own website, www.senior-city.dk, and new IT-clusters are constantly mushrooming – small study groups where senior citizens meet up in a computer room and share their knowledge in using the computer.
Maybe a project out there is just up your street – no matter if you’re long gone 60 and never laid hands on a keyboard, or if you are having a problem that makes it difficult to use the offers available otherwise. See the DDN-Projects Overview, targeted at North Danes with special desires and needs to the left of this article.
Please see the list of DDN-projekter below targeted at citizens of North Denmark with special needs and requirements.
Face to Face
Break the Isolation
Network Society Right at Hand
A Speaking Internet Portal
SeniorCity Denmark
Visual Handicap and the Digital North Denmark
 Printerfriendly version |
