Icharti W Sawti — IFES's Multi-Modal Accessible Civic-Education Platform in Tunisia

Icharti W Sawti ("My Sign and My Voice") is a digital civic-education platform that the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) began developing in 2022 in partnership with Tunisia's disability rights community. It presents the same civic and electoral-participation content in four parallel formats — written text, audio, Tunisian Sign Language video, and Easy-to-Read — so that a single resource, rather than a separate accommodation, serves blind, deaf, low-literacy and intellectually disabled users alike.

The platform builds directly on earlier IFES-Tunisia disability programming: a Tunisian Sign Language electoral lexicon developed for prior elections, an accessible COVID-19 information campaign in Tunisian Sign Language, and an Inclusive Democracy Exhibit. It is designed as a growing library that Tunisians can contribute to, rather than a one-off campaign resource tied to a single election cycle.

Caveat: public sources describe the platform's features, launch and lineage in detail, but no independent usage statistics (number of users, resources published, or measured change in civic participation) were found; the available evidence is IFES's own programme reporting rather than third-party evaluation.

Read the full analysis: https://www.ifes.org/news/accessible-innovation-tunisia-civic-and-voter-education-through-collaboration