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L ITERATUR /REVIEWSLiteratur/ReviewsUS International Council on DisabilitiesGlobal Disability Rights Library (GDRL)Those working to promote the human rights of peoplewith disabilities now have a new way to access informationand digital resources - even if they are beyond the reachof the Internet.The US International Council on Disabilities has helped todevelop the Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL), abroad collection of critical resources for disabled people’sorganisations, women’s rights groups, government agencies,academic institutions and others that advocate fordisability rights.As well, for the bulk of persons with disabilities living inareas where the Internet is non-existent, unreliable, orsimply too expensive, there is a new offline option calledthe eGranary Digital Library.The eGranary Digital Library is a four terabyte hard drivethat contains 30 million electronic documents - over 2,000Web sites, documents, videos, images and other materials- including over 2.5 million documents that make up theGlobal Disability Rights Library (GDRL). Hooked up to asingle computer, the eGranary can be shared with thousandsof people over local area networks. It has an interfacethat emulates the look and functioning of the Web ­including built-in search tools - but it does not require anyInternet connectivity to operate.The Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL) project is a jointinitiative of the US International Council on Disabilitiesand the Wider Net Project at the University of Iowa.The GDRL project was initiated with the support of theAmerican people via the US Agency of International Development.It has already been deployed to over 140 locationsworldwide.Bezug: www.usicd.org/index.cfm/global-disability-rightslibrary;www.widernet.org/egranary/gdrl,www.eGranary.org, E-Mail: sales@egranary.org; http://gdrl.org.implications for donors and development practitioners. Itcaptures and shares the experience of select donors anddevelopment agencies that are beginning to integrate theprinciples of the CRPD into their work. It also providespractical actions donors can take that will improve the wayfunding is promoted and managed so it becomes increasinglyinclusive.Bezug: www.disabilityrightsfund.org/donor/donorguide.html; info@disabilityrightsfund.org.The International Telecommunications Union(ITU) and the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs(G3ict)Making Mobile Phones and Services Accessiblefor Persons with DisabilitiesThe International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and theGlobal Initiative for Inclusive Information and CommunicationTechnologies (G3ict) published their latest reportentitled: Making Mobile Phones and Services Accessiblefor Persons with Disabilities on 12 September. Despite theunprecedented rise in mobile phone subscriptions, seniorcitizens, people living with disabilities and the illiterate areoften marginalised from the mobile miracle because devicesare not equipped with the right accessibility features,or because the price of accessible mobile phones and servicesis prohibitive. Examples of pioneering solutions arehighlighted in the report, as well as the role of the privatesector and regulatory and policy measures to ensure thatthe accessibility needs of all people are met.Bezug: www.itu.int/ITU-D/sis/PwDs/Documents/Mobile_Report.pdf.Disability Rights Fund (DRF)Beyond Charity: A Donor’s Guide to Inclusion- Disability Funding in the Era of theUN Convention on the Rights of Personswith DisabilitiesOn the occasion of the fifth conference of States Parties tothe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,the Disability Rights Fund (DRF) is promoting its guide, BeyondCharity: A Donor’s Guide to Inclusion - DisabilityFunding in the Era of the UN Convention on the Rights ofPersons with Disabilities. DRF – a groundbreaking collaborativeto support the human rights of persons with disabilitiesaround the world – commissioned the guide to encouragedonor learning about the rights of persons with disabilities.This informative guide introduces the Convention and itsG3ict2012 CRPD ICT Accessibility Progress ReportThe 2012 CRPD Progress Report includes the latest dataon 52 countries representing 77.4 per cent of the WorldPopulation. The report offers disability advocates, governments,civil society and international organisations aunique benchmarking tool that collects data on countrylaws, policies, and programs pertaining to accessible andassistive Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs) around the globe. All results are available cross-tabulatedby region, level of income per capita of HumanDevelopment Index to facilitate benchmarking by advocatesand policy makers.Bezug: http://bit.ly/SF3KFp; http://g3ict.org/download/p/fileId_936/productId_244.36Behinderung und internationale Entwicklung 3/2012Disability and International Development