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Ñawi Project: Visual Health for Improvement of Education in High Andean Educational Communities in Perú

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The UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an action plan in support of people, the planet and prosperity. Within the 17 Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO), we have quality education (fourth objective) and the reduction of inequalities (the tenth SDO). Rural communities tend to be one of the most disadvantaged environments and development education is one of the most effective mechanisms to alleviate these inequalities. In this framework, the Urubamba Project for International Cooperation is presented, and within it, the Ñawi Project for visual education. Both projects are developed in the Andean areas of Cusco (Peru) through university community participation. In these lines of action, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are presented as a relevant and effective element to achieve their objectives: introduction of ICTs in education to create inclusive socio-educational environments and ICTs as an analysis tool for the visual education project (prevention and correction). This work focuses on the Ñawi Project and the satisfactory results that have been obtained.

Keywords

  • Visual health
  • Education
  • High Andean communities
  • ICT in education
  • Inclusive learning

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  1. La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull, 08022, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavi Canaleta, Eva Villegas, David Fonseca, Guillem Villa, David Badia & Emiliano Labrador

  2. Centre de Visió i Audiologia, 08250, Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, Spain

    Rafel Zaragoza

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Dr. Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

    Dr. Irena Orovic

  6. Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Prof. Fernando Moreira

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Canaleta, X. et al. (2020). Ñawi Project: Visual Health for Improvement of Education in High Andean Educational Communities in Perú. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S., Orovic, I., Moreira, F. (eds) Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45697-9_55

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