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Nordic Seating Symposium 22-24 May, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden (2011-12-15)

Let us know if you want to participate in the poster presentation during the symposium. Information and program.

The first World report on disability from WHO (2011-06-15)

Last week the World Health Organisation, WHO published the first World report on disability in cooperation with the World Bank.

Call for Papers! The Nordic Seating Symposium 2012 (2011-05-09)

Submit proposals for lectures and workshops for the 5th Nordic Seating Symposium, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Invitation to a conference about future ICT services for elderly persons and persons with disabilities – Safe and Comfortable at Home (2011-04-06)

The conference takes place on May 19–20, 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden. It is the final international conference within the EU project MonAMI – Mainstreaming on Ambient Intelligence.

Simple smart phones and remote controls help elderly and disabled to manage their homes (2011-01-18)

With €2.7 million of EU funding, researchers from the Czech Republic, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Sweden have developed a solution to give elderly and disabled people easier control over the various electronic appliances and services in their homes.

Digital inclusion  (2011-01-10)

The director of the Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology, Jan Grönlund, together with a network of nine other agencies and organisations, signed the ICT Lift Campaign’s petition for increased digital inclusion on 3 December 2010.

More Swedes on the Internet (2011-01-10)

A wide network of Swedish organisations is starting up ICT Lift, a campaign to increase digital inclusion. The goal is to have an additional half a million Swedes using the Internet within three years.

Season’s Greetings from Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology, SIAT (2010-12-17)

We thank you for our cooperation during 2010 and look forward to continued useful contacts during 2011.

Accessibility A winning and necessary concept (2010-09-17)

Article by Claes Tjäder at the Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology in the ISO Focus+ magazine.

New Director of SIAT (2010-08-19)

Jan Grönlund succeeds Carl Leczinsky who recently retired as the Director of the Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology, SIAT.

New international web site (2010-07-05)

The international version of hi.se is now presented in the new lay-out and will gradually be extended to include a larger selection of our project work.

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