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SK Telecom donated 700 million Korean won to the Korea Digital Divide Council
e-Library will provide the disabled people with a wide range of useful information through the Internet beginning in November of this year.
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On August 9, SK Telecom (www.sktelecom.com) announced that the company is sponsoring the program carried out by the Korea Digital Divide Council entitled ?Construction of an e-Library on the Internet for Disabled People?.
As one of their many social contribution activities, the company donated 700 million Korean won to aid in building the e-Library for disabled people on the Internet. In this connection, Moon-Soo Pyo, president of SK Telecom, delivered the supporting funds to Hye-Woon Nam(**Note 1), executive director of Korea Digital Divide Council on August 9, 2001 in SK Telecom?s headquarters office.
The e-Library is the Korea?s first special library for disabled people, which will be established on the Internet (www.opendigital.or.kr). This is designed to help disabled people freely gain access to information through the Internet so the information gap between disabled and non-disabled people will be abolished in this digital era.
The e-Library on the Internet will be developed with functions such as voice recognition, screen voice reader and caption processing of multimedia data for people with visual disabilities. There will also be interoperability of special devices used by other disabled people. SK Telecom expects that about 130 thousand disabled persons will use this e-Library. In terms of content, a vast array of academic, scientific and research data will be available in the e-Library. In addition, SK Telecom will support the establishment of human networks through the e-Library to build bilateral friendship and to exchange beneficial information and data. The e-Library will be open by November this year.
Moon-Soo Pyo, president of SK Telecom, said ?Through this e-Library we would like to give disabled people the confidence that there are no obstacles to success in cyber space?. ?SK Telecom will continue to create an information world in which disabilities and exclusion will become non-existent?, he added.
We at SK Telecom are always putting forth our best efforts to continue to carry out social contribution activities to aid those people who are lost in the shadows of society. These activities include Internet Search Contest for disabled youth, donating PCs and offering computer classes to orphaned teenagers who support their siblings, offering Internet and computer class tours for special schools for disabled youth, donating PCs to the primary schools in country side, and many others".
(**Note 1)
Nam-Hye Woon, 37 years old, has a first-degree visual impairment due to inherited Keratitis Pigmentosa. He is the CEO of a venture software development company. He developed "Sorinun 2000", a software for the visually impaired computer user, and "Good Eye" which is a program combined with voice recognition. For this reason, in December 2000 he was awarded the Presidential Prize for Innovative Intellectual Person Award by The National Commission for Rebuilding Korea.
He first found out about his impairment when he was a sophomore in the law school of Seoul National University and passed the first test of the bar exam. He devoted himself to working for handicapped people as well as trying to help himself. He established the Research Center for Overcoming Handicaps in 2000, and this year in February he also established the Korea Digital Divide Council.
As one of their many social contribution activities, the company donated 700 million Korean won to aid in building the e-Library for disabled people on the Internet. In this connection, Moon-Soo Pyo, president of SK Telecom, delivered the supporting funds to Hye-Woon Nam(**Note 1), executive director of Korea Digital Divide Council on August 9, 2001 in SK Telecom?s headquarters office.
The e-Library is the Korea?s first special library for disabled people, which will be established on the Internet (www.opendigital.or.kr). This is designed to help disabled people freely gain access to information through the Internet so the information gap between disabled and non-disabled people will be abolished in this digital era.
The e-Library on the Internet will be developed with functions such as voice recognition, screen voice reader and caption processing of multimedia data for people with visual disabilities. There will also be interoperability of special devices used by other disabled people. SK Telecom expects that about 130 thousand disabled persons will use this e-Library. In terms of content, a vast array of academic, scientific and research data will be available in the e-Library. In addition, SK Telecom will support the establishment of human networks through the e-Library to build bilateral friendship and to exchange beneficial information and data. The e-Library will be open by November this year.
Moon-Soo Pyo, president of SK Telecom, said ?Through this e-Library we would like to give disabled people the confidence that there are no obstacles to success in cyber space?. ?SK Telecom will continue to create an information world in which disabilities and exclusion will become non-existent?, he added.
We at SK Telecom are always putting forth our best efforts to continue to carry out social contribution activities to aid those people who are lost in the shadows of society. These activities include Internet Search Contest for disabled youth, donating PCs and offering computer classes to orphaned teenagers who support their siblings, offering Internet and computer class tours for special schools for disabled youth, donating PCs to the primary schools in country side, and many others".
(**Note 1)
Nam-Hye Woon, 37 years old, has a first-degree visual impairment due to inherited Keratitis Pigmentosa. He is the CEO of a venture software development company. He developed "Sorinun 2000", a software for the visually impaired computer user, and "Good Eye" which is a program combined with voice recognition. For this reason, in December 2000 he was awarded the Presidential Prize for Innovative Intellectual Person Award by The National Commission for Rebuilding Korea.
He first found out about his impairment when he was a sophomore in the law school of Seoul National University and passed the first test of the bar exam. He devoted himself to working for handicapped people as well as trying to help himself. He established the Research Center for Overcoming Handicaps in 2000, and this year in February he also established the Korea Digital Divide Council.