Through our Everyone Connected strategy, we aim to make technology accessible and useful for everyone. This month, we participated in the M-Enabling Summit for Australasia which focused on enabling people with disability and older people through technology and innovation. In connection with the Summit, Telstra's Chief Technology Officer, Dr Hugh Bradlow, has explored some of the most promising fields of innovation for opening up new connections and greater independence for people with disability.

Telstra's 2013 Bigger Picture Sustainability Reporting Series is now online. The reports detail our sustainability approach, progress and performance in 2012/13 across six key areas - Sustainability at Telstra, Responsible business, Customer experience, Our people, Community impact and Environmental impact. Our particular focus this year was to build performance momentum in three key areas – employee involvement, digital inclusion and environmental leadership.

Canberra artist Jenni Kemarre Martiniello has won the 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA). The 2013 NATSIAA exhibition will be displayed at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, until 10 November, and artworks from the Telstra Collection are now accessible through the Google Art Project. Telstra has supported the NATSIAA for the last 22 years.

The Guide Dogs Association of SA and NT is using a $10,000 Everyone Connected grant to help vision impaired young people communicate more effectively and travel more independently. Smartphones make accessibility technology – which used to be very specialised and expensive – much more widely available for vision impaired users. Guide Dogs SA.NT will equip young people with a smartphone and the training that best meets their individual needs.

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