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Accessible Americas IV: ICTs for ALL Presentation of the Caribbean Telecommunications Unions Proposed Caribbean Video Assistance Service San Jose, Costa Rica 22nd November 2017 By: Trevor Prevatt, CTU CTU Members Grenada Anguilla Guyana

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Accessible Americas IV: ICTs for ALL

Presentation of the

Caribbean Telecommunications Union’s

Proposed

Caribbean Video Assistance Service

San Jose, Costa Rica

22nd November 2017 By: Trevor Prevatt, CTU

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AA IV – San Jose, Costa Rica

Anguilla Antigua/ Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize British Virgin Is. Cayman Is. Cuba Dominica Suriname Trinidad & Tobago Turks and Caicos Grenada Guyana Jamaica Montserrat S t Kitts/ Nevis S t Lucia S t Maarten

  • St. Vincent &

The Grenadines

CTU Members

ARIN * Bureau Telecommunicatie en Post (Curacao) * Dauphin Telecom * Digicel (Trinidad & Tobago) * Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority * International Amateur Radio Union (Region2) * ICANN * IS OC * LACNIC * Puerto Rico Regulatory Board * Telecommunications Authority of T & T

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AA IV – San Jose, Costa Rica

CTU Mandate

Harmonised ICT Policy Formulation Regional ICT Project Coordination ICT Capacity Development Advice on ICT issues Caribbean Representation Industry Watch

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AA IV – San Jose, Costa Rica

Caribbean Video Assistance Service (CVAS)

  • A collaboration between the CTU and

VTCSecure

  • VTCSecure: a global company providing

technology to facilitate communication for blind and deaf persons

  • Other collaborators: PWDs, PWD
  • rganisations, Govt. Ministries, Regulatory

Authorities, Network Operators, IT Organisations and others

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CVAS provides communication services to: via the Internet

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CVAS Uses Smart Devices

Equipped with VTCSecure’s Free Personal Universal Communicator Application

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CVAS Uses VTCSecure’s

S.O.L.V.E.S ‐ Secure On‐Demand Video Enablement Solution Platform

Network Operator

Server running

SOLVES

8‐core, 16GB RAM 5‐10Mb Network/

Agents (Sign Language Interpreters) Centre or home based

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CVAS Network Configuration

Agent PSTN Network

Network Operator Server running SOLVES 8‐core, 16GB RAM 5‐10Mb Network/ Hearing Hearing Person Hearing Hearing Person Hearing Hearing Person

PSTN Network

Hearing Hearing Person SIP TRUNKS

PWD PWD PWD PWD

SIP TRUNKS

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CVAS Capabilities:

Deaf to Hearing/Hearing to Deaf via Agent

Sign Language Voice

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CVAS Capabilities:

Deaf to Deaf using PUC

Sign Language Sign Language

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CVAS Capabilities:

Hearing to Deaf/Deaf to Hearing/using PUC

Voice to Text

  • r Text

Text

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Video Assistance for the Blind via Agent

There is a fence directly in front of

  • you. Turn Right.

Smart Phone Camera used to Scan the Environment

CVAS Capabilities:

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CVAS Demonstration: Deaf to Hearing via Agent

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CVAS Demonstration: Blind to the Agent

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AA IV – San Jose, Costa Rica

Caribbean Video Assistance Service (CVAS)

THANK YOU Questions? Comments?

Caribbean Telecommunications Union