I･CARE Centre for Whole-person Development E-newsletter

Co-organised by CUSE Fund under this Centre and Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK, the S.I. Leadership Workshop II is approaching its end. To enable participants of the S.I. Leadership Award and other interested parties to have a more in-depth understanding of the operation of social innovation projects and the challenges incurred, the S.I. Leadership Workshop II will organise an extra case sharing session whereby the team iSEE Mobile Apps*, which assumed championship of the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge in 2016, will share with participants their social innovation ideas. This team has also been granted CUSE Fund for 2017-18. Details are as follows:

Date : 11 April 2018 (Wednesday)
Time : 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Venue : Room 502, Wong Foo Yuan Building
Registration** : https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=141802
Deadline : 11:59 pm, 6 April 2018 (Friday)

In addition, the S.I. Leadership Workshop II will have its final event conducted in May. Prof. Wong Hung and Dr. Terrence Yuen have been invited to speak on "Social Impact Assessment". More information about it will be announced in due course.

For enquiries, please email Ms. Chan at ysbc@cuhk.edu.hk.

* iSEE Mobile Apps (iSEE) is a team comprising social workers, programmers, teachers, university students and people with disabilities. It aims to break barriers through information technology and to provide services and opportunities to the disabled to promote their equal participation. With the help of mobile technology, people with disabilities are believed to be able to overcome their physical restriction when connecting with the society, thus reinstate a normal life. As such, iSEE has developed a mobile app for the visually impaired. This app has simple layout design and is compatible with smartphone screen readers. It also supports recognition of colors, Chinese and English texts, and common objects.

Besides, iSEE provides one-stop consultation service on web accessibility to its clients, which includes testing and solutions, development, as well as promotion and training. Currently, iSEE is providing web accessibility consultation to the HKSAR Government, NGOs and elderly centres, and it will extend its services to the private enterprise sector in the long run.

** Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis. No registration is required for the S.I. Leadership Award's participants who have been pre-enrolled to this event. Attendance in this event will not be counted as participation in designated training.