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IATP Kazakhstan's Work with the Deaf featured on BBC News

On March 25, 2002, the Internet Access and Training Program (IATP) regional coordinator for Central Asia, David Mikosz, participated in an interview with the BBC World Service about IATP's work with the deaf and disabled in Central Asia. The interview is featured on the BBC News website.

The interview focused on the ways that Internet access opens new possibilities for hearing impaired and physically disabled people. The interview focused on IATP's work with the Almaty School for the Deaf in Kazakhstan.

"The importance of the Internet and programs like the IATP is not the technology or the people behind the technology," Mikosz stated, "but rather in what people do with the technology." He went on to say that "the BBC interview gave me the chance to share some of the exciting work the IATP and our partners are doing with a worldwide audience."

IATP is a program of the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs (ECA), US Department of State, funded under the Freedom Support Act (FSA). IREX administers the program in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. IATP is an innovative program that utilizes the Internet to encourage information sharing, network building, and collaboration among alumni of ECA-sponsored exchange programs and other targeted constituencies in these eleven countries of the New Independent States (NIS).

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