December 3rd, International Day of Persons with Disabilities
On December 3rd we celebrate the International Day of of Persons with Disabilities. This year’s theme as chosen by the UN is “To remove barriers to create a society that is inclusive and accessible to all”. It’s a call for all countries, without exception, to provide all persons with the equal access they deserve and…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Disability today, compared to the past, is no longer a limit, it doesn’t preclude your chance to dream, to have a job, a house, a family and to travel. Today’s technology, applied to transportation, to buildings, to prosthetic devices, has no boundaries. If you also perform a sport, even at an amateur level, disability will…
A bridge of hope
“Double success in America for Salvatore Cimmino, the disabled swimmer from Torre Annunziata, Italy, and for his ” Swimming in the seas of the globe ” project, whose goal is to reach out to the public on`the importance of research to reduce the obstacles that prevent social integration of the disabled. Cimmino won his challenge…
BOSTON, not to foreclose the innovation to people with disabilities
We are on the eve of a very difficult and crucial leg of my world tour. I’m here to reach the heart before of those in power: those who can make new technologies accessible to people with disabilities, in order to improve their mobility, to help them enter the job market, to remove the obstacles…