Huawei has been committed to “Bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world”. It is a leading global provider of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud… Continue Reading Huawei RURALSTAR: An innovation for improving the economics of rural connectivity in Africa

Now more than ever, digital skills are important to how populations prepare for the economy of the future, and while efforts are underway to mobilize the masses in meeting the challenges of the information technology elsewhere, most African countries are still dormant in this respect. Although there is a lot… Continue Reading Digitruck Huawei for bridging the digital divide and reduces rural inequality

“Americans are punitive by nature. However, we are also compassionate, and equality is built into our foundation. So, it is not surprising that incarcerating certain groups of individuals has caused a heated debate about whether our practices are just, effective, and humane”. Sadly, the United States is #1 when it… Continue Reading Prison reform, inmates with disabilities, covid-19, and safety for all

The technological revolution is transforming our lives at breakneck speed, dramatically altering the ways in which we work, learn, and even live together. Alongside the increasingly sophisticated use of big data, AI is undergoing exponential growth and finding new applications in an ever-increasing number of sectors, including security, the environment,… Continue Reading Inclusion and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

“Experts on China are reading the tea leaves that a ban on TikTok is imminent as the United States puts pressure on Chinese companies”. It is sad to watch some top officials in the government of The United States continues to attack Chinese companies.  As I write this article, COVID-19… Continue Reading First, they came for Huawei – now TikTok and other Chinese apps are at risk in the USA – is this retaliation? Is this a tech war?

We are in the golden age of innovations, an era in which digital technology is transforming the underpinnings of human existence, transforming lives within the community of disability and the elderly. This revolution is impacting every industry, including the one you may have never considered: accessible and adaptive technology. From… Continue Reading Voice assistants and smart home technologies transform the lives of people with disabilities and the elderly.

Technology must work for everyone and must represent the requirements and needs of us of all. Women are half of the world’s population, and as such, they need to be an integral part of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims. Goal 5 is to achieve gender equality and empower women and… Continue Reading Women in the Digital Era: Inclusion, Equality, Leadership.

Since 2001, I have been supporting corporations that are helping to solve some of the world’s largest problems including disability inclusion, Tech4All, Tech4Good, Digital Inclusion and Climate Change.  In 2019, I visited Huawei to learn more about their efforts to support the United Nations (UN), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As… Continue Reading Openness, Competition, and Collaboration – Stronger Together

Over the past 30 years, the semiconductor industry has been at the heart of technological advances that have generated enormous benefits for the US economy, US defense capabilities, and consumers and enterprises around the world. It has also created benefits for China, whose technology industry has been able to use… Continue Reading Semiconductor Industry and the Global Supply Chain: Let’s work together to assure Digital Inclusion across the World

Education can help move people out of poverty and give all of us, especially children, the chance for a better life.  Education can also change the lives of adults that did not have access to education earlier in their lives or need to retrain for a new career. Another wonderful… Continue Reading Education for All – How Corporations can add Value to the Efforts

Corporations are working to reduce their carbon footprints in their operations and to implement climate change measures throughout their global footprint.  Many forward thinking corporations are letting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) guide and inform these sustainability efforts including setting climate change targets to cut their carbon emissions and to support… Continue Reading Exploring Corporations that are having Social Impact and Climate Action: Huawei

How Corporations can show leadership and help during these changing times!!! I am proud to write and speak about the inclusion needs of my community, persons with disabilities, in all aspects of society.  Climate Action and the UN Sustainable Development Goals are also part of my passion along with Tech4All,… Continue Reading Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Climate Change, and Disability Inclusion

In the summer of 2019, Huawei invited me to attend Huawei Connect 2019 in Shanghai.  One of my professional colleagues told me that I should shy away from Huawei since they were a Chinese corporation.  I was surprised by the comment and responded, China has over 1.4+ billion people and… Continue Reading Digital Inclusion for Rural Communities in the United States and around the World

I had the pleasure to interview Tanya Sheckley of UP ACADEMY located in San Mateo, CA on my Show – Human Potential at Work.  UP ACADEMY is an elementary lab school for the inclusion of students with physical disabilities.  Tanya’s passion for starting the school was her amazing daughter Eliza… Continue Reading Time to Educate and Employ Persons with Disabilities

Today, we face an enormous wave of innovation, across many areas that are changing the way we live, work, play and communicate.  Everything from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, TECH4ALL, TECH4GOOD, AI4GOOD, Social Media, The Digital Economy and Currencies, Wearables,  Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and The “Gig” Economy are impacting… Continue Reading Huawei Connect 2019 / TECH4ALL, TECH4GOOD, & Digital Inclusion

In pondering the many things we have to be thankful for this year, here are seven people, living and dead, who enriched our understanding of people with disabilities and made the world a better place. Some you know. Some you don’t. Continue Reading Happy Thanksgiving- Celebrating the Contributions of Seven Individuals With Disabilities

I am a disabled activist and researcher born in Egypt, who lived through many barriers and deprivations that face disabled people in accessing basic services. At my segregated boarding school for blind students in Egypt, I gained many Continue Reading This is my story, let’s start

By Elizabeth Lockwood Ph. D.

Recently Sian Tesni, Senior Education Advisor at CBM, and I had the fantastic opportunity to meet with deaf leaders in Vietnam. We met with dynamic leaders, Ling from Hanoi and Huong from Ho Chi Minh City. Continue Reading Meeting deaf leaders from Vietnam

That’s how it is with purple, a hue that communicates royalty, majesty, and power.

And that is what brings us to the #PurpleLightUp movement, a global call to action that demands that the voices of all people around the world be heard, specifically people with disabilities and their inclusion in the workforce. Continue Reading #PurpleLightUp

On Saturday –fittingly World Cerebral Palsy Day — the wildly popular athletic apparel giant offered a new message, a giant milestone in the global brand’s movement for inclusion; Be Like Justin.

But who is Justin? Continue Reading Be Like Justin

Published on Ability Magazine In 1987 while working as a systems administrator and executive in the banking industry, Debra Ruh gave birth to a beautiful girl, Sara, who was perfect and happened to have Down syndrome. Ruh found the world had very low expectations for Sara. Later, Ruh was drawn… Continue Reading Ability Magazine: Debra Ruh, Tapping Into disABILITY