Azerbaijan, Baku, Apr.7 / Trend, H. Veliyev /
A group of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies (MCIT) and the Heydar Aliyev Foundation are in the Nakhichivan Autonomous Republic to introduce and control operations on construction of the Regional Information Centre (RIC), the ministry said.
The Centre is being constructed under the joint project of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, MCIT and UN Development Program, which aims to expand opportunities of using information communications technologies by disabled persons.
The building of the Information Centre will include a reading room, a department of teaching and learning, audio library, a sound recording studio to transfer the literature in audio format specifically for blind and visually impaired people.
Twenty computers will be installed in the Centre, which will be connected with local network and equipped with magnifying monitor. Books with braille, movies with subtitles, and computer games for the development of people with low intelligence will be designed for the centre. Commissioning operations are expected this year.
At present, the similar centre operates in Ganja. Over 60,000 people with disabilities, residing in Ganja and Naftalan, as well as in Agstafa, Dashkesan, Gazakh, Gedebey, Goygol and Shamkir regions can take advantage of its services.