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Providing Increased Opportunities to Participate in the Community
- Supporting differently abled people with ICT
- Promoting teleworking through ICT
Helping people with different abilities to lead anxiety-free lives
NTT laboratory groups and Group companies are putting ICT to work in creating barrier-free environments through conducting R&D on support systems for both personal communication and information sharing, and operating a portal site containing valuable information for elderly and differently abled people. NTT DoCoMo continued in fiscal 2007 to participate in the IT Barrier-Free Project for Disabled Persons and Other Users consortium organized by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization(NEDO)for drafting design guidelines for mobile support systems to be used by differently abled people.In April 2005, NTT CLARUTY opened the Yu Yu Yu portal site to provide useful information for elderly and differently abled people. The site attracted more than 280,000 page views in fiscal 2007. NTT DoCoMo Hokkaido, NTT DoCoMo Kansai, and NTT DoCoMo Kyushu also operate Internet and mobile sites on local barrier-free facilities and services that were accessed 126,878 times last year.
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Increasing employment opportunities and reducing disparities in the employment market
The NTT Group is actively promoting distribution of employment information as well as contributing to the creation of teleworking and other new forms of employment that utilize ICT as solutions to an increasingly volatile employment market and the need to develop employment opportunities for elderly and differently abled people. For example NTT Communications and NTT Com CHEO decided in March 2007 to hire more CAVA (.com Advisor and Valuable Agent) staff for providing customer support for Internet access and so forth from their homes. The companies are focusing in particular on offering training to members of the postwar baby boom generation and hiring those who pass the qualifying exam.NTT NEOMEIT's Digital Map Virtual Factory is an organization that provides employment opportunities to differently abled people, single mothers raising small children and others who find commuting difficult by hiring them to work from home at online creation and editing of digital map data. In March 2007, the Digital Map Virtual Factory added Ishikawa Prefecture to its existing areas of activity covering Kumamoto, Hyogo, Mie, Shizuoka, Hiroshima, Ehime, and Fukui Prefectures. ![]() |
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