Director’s Desk: ICT for people with disabilities. -- ICT: enabling independence and productivity for persons with disabilities. -- ICT and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. -- Helping the deaf to connect to an increasingly vocalized internet. -- Facilitating access through Universal Service Funds. -- Public procurement standards for accessible ICT. -- Use of ICT by persons with disabilities in the Caribbean: evidence from census data. ICTs for persons with visual impairments. -- Recent and upcoming meetings. -- List of recent ECLAC documents and publications.