AI webinar: Student leadership platform to upskill deaf community

VarsityGenie will be hosting its first sign-language webinar to uplift the deaf community through technology-based skills on 14 October via Microsoft Teams. The student leadership platform was established by the 26-year-old Durban University of Technology (DUT) information and communication technology (ICT) masters student Fanie Ndlovu, who is passionate about developing the skills of young people in communities and townships. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) there are 466 million people across the world that live with disabling hearing loss, which equates to more than 5% of the world's population. WHO also estimated that by 2050, more than 900 million people will have disabling hearing loss. Majority of these individuals live in low- to middle-income countries where they do not have access to the appropriate hearing care services.