Researchers Study How Autistic People Communicate Virtually by Angela Mohan on March 16, 2021 at 3:12 PM
Autistic people prefer to communicate using the internet instead of in-person.
Researchers from Drexel University s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute collected and reviewed published research about how autistic youth and adults use the internet to communicate and provide a framework for understanding contributions, gaps and opportunities in online autistic communities.
Lead author Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, PhD, an assistant professor in the Autism Institute, and her co-authors cast a wide net searching across five databases that list studies investigating how autistic people use the internet to communicate. Filtering for specific criteria, they read 32 articles, collected their most important findings and looked for patterns.
Daily Monitor
Monday March 15 2021
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Before this financial year closes in June, government intends to distribute 1,500 solar-powered ipads with Internet to poor households to facilitate access to information and home-schooling.
The teachers will be instructing learners from the school-based computer laboratories, which Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) installed in more than 1,000 secondary schools and tertiary institutions to support continued learning while learners are at home.
The UCC executive director, Ms Irene Kaggwa, said the ipads will be procured at Shs3b under the Uganda Communications Universal Services Access Fund, which was introduced in 2010.
The computers have been installed with content for Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology for O-Level education with hopes to upload more information in other subjects after evaluating how successful the project will be in three years.
Viettel ready to provide Mobile Money service to all customers 11:19 | 11/03/2021
Viettel will utilise its considerable ICT potential to roll out the Mobile Money service
On March 9, the prime minister officially approved the pilot of Mobile Money service for a duration of two years. Accordingly, e-wallet providers and telecom service providers will be able to deploy the new service.
The trial aims to promote cashless payments in the country, while strengthening access to and use of financial services, especially for those in rural, remote, and mountainous areas.
In anticipation of the future trend, Viettel launched the internal trial run of the Mobile Money service for 40,000 staff in 2020. The group also has experience in providing such services in six overseas markets.Â
Chief Executive, DataSixth Cybersecurity Consulting, Michael Anyanwu (left); members, Senate Committee on ICT and Cybercrime, Orker Jev; Yakubu Oseni (chairman); Ezenwa Onyewuchi; Senior Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment Programmes, Ismaeel Ahmed and another member of the committee, Ibrahim Hadejia, during the lawmakers’ visit to the Security Operations Centre (SOC) of DataSixth in Lagos…on MondaySenate Committee on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has raised the alarm over the high rate of cybercrime in the country, calling for mechanisms to save the nation from the menace.
Chairman of the committee, Yakubu Oseni, who spoke during a visit of members to Datasixth Cybersecurity Consulting in Lagos, said the oversight findings of the team revealed that Nigeria was suffering from activities of cybercriminals.
ZANZIBAR President Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi yesterday tasked the Ministry of Works, Communications and Transport to strengthen transparency and accountability so that they effectively contribute to Isles’ socio-economic development.