Author: tania
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Tips on making the telecoms industry more inclusive
At the Mobile Ecosystem Forum Omnichannel event in London, Monica Paolini and I were joined by two special guests to bring even more diversity into the perspectives we are sharing on #Inclusively: Chris McGinley from the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) explained that their postgraduate studies include a focus on…
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AI: the Artificial Eye for the blind
The “Be My Eyes” app now uses ChatGPT for image recognition, helping blind users understand their surroundings.
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Building Inclusion into Telus
Ibrahim Gedeon CTO of TELUS in Canada, jumped at the opportunity to join myself and Monica Paolini to discuss how his organisation and the telco as a whole is building towards a more inclusive future. You can watch the webinar here and listen the podcast here. In the past diversity was something we were told we had to deal…
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From Telco to Techo – a white paper
Thanks to Amdocs for the opportunity to reflect on the state of the telecoms market in a recent white paper. From the introduction: Whatever label gets attached to the telecoms industry it is clear connectivity is critical to every aspect of our personal, business and societal lives. The dynamics of the telecoms market are shifting…
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Kevin Lee: Helping BT Group build towards a more Inclusive future
Kevin Lee, Chief Digital Officer, Consumer at BT, joined us on #Inclusively to talk about how the British telecoms company is building towards a more inclusive future. This is a short summary of a very wide-ranging discussion. The full video of the interview can be seen here. Kevin’s exposure to the Inclusion topic goes…
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Is the metaverse a driver of real change for People With Disabilities?
It was my pleasure to be on stage with Dr Mike Short at the MEF event in London this month. Mike’s history working in the telecoms industry with BT, Cellnet, O2 and Telefonica has now been complemented by his five years as Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department of International Trade in the UK. We…
