Research with educators across EMEA explores the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching and learning, and specifically how the attitudes, behaviour, and awareness of digital teaching resources amongst higher education teaching staff has changed as a result
Born blind, Kursat Ceylan used his lived experience to innovate and empower himself as well as other people of determination.
“The technology world is really exciting. But as a blind person, I still had to rely on my traditional white cane,” he tells Ihsan Anabtawi, COO and CMO of Microsoft UAE in the fourth episode of the Future Now podcast series.
“Just before the inception of WeWalk, I was in New York to give a speech at the United Nations. While going to my hotel, I was using my traditional white cane with one hand and holding my smartphone to get the GPS direction with the other. At the same time, I had to pull my luggage. Not surprisingly, I bumped into a pole. This is not just my problem. There are more than 250 million visually impaired in the world. That’s why we started to work on WeWalk technology.”
“I believe that all of us are unique and valuable; everyone has potential and we have to provide the opportunity to unleash that potential,” says Kursat Ceylan, Co-founder of WeWalk, a pioneering company that helps the visually impaired through technological innovations.
Born blind, Ceylan used his experience to innovate and empower himself as well as other people of determination.
“The technology world is really exciting. But as a blind person, I still had to rely on my traditional white cane,” he tells Ihsan Anabtawi, COO and CMO of Microsoft UAE in the fourth and fifth episodes of the Future Now podcast series.
“Just before the inception of WeWalk, I was in New York to give a speech at the United Nations. While going to my hotel, I was using my traditional white cane with one hand and holding my smartphone to get the GPS direction with the other. At the same time, I had to pull my luggage. Not surprisingly, I bumped into a pole. This is not just my problem. There are