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The Minister of Economy and Finance, Inmaculada García Lorca opened today in the third 'Days ICT for Social Welfare and Health', under the Annual Forum of the Information Society 'SICARM 2010', which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Garcia said that "these technical conferences which hosts the third consecutive year Lorca represent an approach to groups with special needs from the perspective of the Information Society and it is very important for us in the place of those who suffer from a dependence and look to world from their perspective, "he said, because it" really understand how necessary it is the world's development of new technologies, from the human perspective and the possible impact of ICT-in people with physical or mental disability. "

In Spain, 45.9 million people, 3.8 million people with disabilities and the Region of Murcia, 1.4 million, 127.000sufren a disability, "hence the special attention and support that we provide this group, "added the minister.

The economy minister said this year, the change from analogue to digital, "the regional government has managed to bring the TDT everyone and especially to the elderly and disabled through receptors that have adapted Simplified setup menu and define different user profiles with varying degrees of functionality, including voice synthesis, so that no citizen of the region were on the side of the new digital age. "

"We should be proud that the region has been a pioneer in developing tuner adapted to the needs of persons belonging to these groups, with the aim of providing an effective alternative to use the TDT without barriers, an initiative that has led the Centre Information Technology in the Region of Murcia, "Garcia said.

The Ministry of Finance launched a competition for the purchase of DTT receivers adapted to these groups at risk of exclusion from access to digital terrestrial television, "which will let through more than 800 recipients IMAS equip the nursing homes and homes in the region of people with these needs, "stressed the minister of finance.

Garcia concluded that, in this same line of bringing new technologies to everyone, "Development Plan of 2008-2010 Information Society has designed one of the strategic, aimed at the citizens to take particular needs those specific groups who may be susceptible to major difficulties for integration. "

Source: CARM