Tag: disability categories
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The Hidden Segment: The World’s Disabled Billion
Available to download now, is my recent report for the Mobile Ecosystem Forum revisiting the business opportunity for the telecoms industry of addressing the Billion People with Disabilities (PWDs) .Here is the opening extract: “The image the mobile industry projects is one of increasingly sophisticated gadgets and ever more impressive networks to support our personal…
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Technology, mind maps and people! A blind man’s guide to MWC
The question I most often get asked at MWC is not what’s hot and what’s not. It’s always, how the hell do you cope with Barcelona and the FIRA as a blind person? The answer is a combination of planning, people and technology. Planning The annual MWC Lewis spreadsheet is legendary. It’s a masterpiece in…
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The Six Million Dollar man 40 years on. Wearables, Smartphones, 3D printing. Cost to you <$100k!
As a teenager in the 1970s I loved Steve Austin, the astronaut who crashed and was rebuilt. Remember the tag line “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology, the capability to make the world’s first Bionic man”! It captured my imagination and has come to the front of my thinking now as I…
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What tech is out there for disabled people?
Recent interview with Telefonica about accessibility technology available today and in the future. I’m not the one in the bow tie…. Lewis Insight Interview with Telefonica
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You’re blind: How do you ‘read’, join in social media and find your way around, let alone run a business?
Picture the scene: a blind man walking down the street moving white stick to and fro. He is muttering to himself while clicking a small black thing in his left hand. What is he doing? Actually, he is running his business, doing email, messaging, reading documents, checking-in for his flight and working out the best…
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Accessibility At The Top Table At Mobile World Congress 2015
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week accessibility took to one of the main stages. IBM, Microsoft, Google and the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF) joined me to present perspectives on how accessibility is going mainstream. I introduced the session with some of the key findings from the second Telefonica accessibility report “Digitising the Billion…