Mr. Will Carty:

When we are talking about big tech and developing apps for assistive technology, we should be looking at them being multi-platform, across several devices and across any operating system. We are not tying users down to specific devices, which we do in this country, at times, in some of the schools and so on. The policy should be coming from the Government and educators. We work with big tech but we do not let it control it. We obviously have to work out data protection and so on, which we all follow here anyway. We follow the procurement rules. In further education, we are preparing our students for third level and for the workforce. Invariably, they will be using big tech companies' software and so on. We have to work with them. We just have to make sure we do it in an ethical way. We need to make sure that we get value for money and that the learner experience is what it should be.