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Disability groups in India welcome progress on treaty for blind persons: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 21, 2012 — last modified Dec 31, 2012 01:40 AM — filed under: Accessibility, WIPO
Four years of struggle for a global treaty for the benefit of blind persons is finally bearing fruit. Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation have agreed to conclude a treaty for visually-impaired and print disabled persons by June 2013.
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National Resource Kit : The Kerala Chapter (Call for Comments): by Anandhi Viswanathan — published Dec 31, 2012 — last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:20 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility
The National Resource Kit team is pleased to bring you its research on the state of laws, policies and programmes for persons with disabilities in the state of Kerala.
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Overview of Schemes and Notifications issued in Karnataka for the benefit of Persons with Disabilities: by Shruti Ramakrishnan — published Dec 30, 2012 — last modified Jan 05, 2013 04:17 PM — filed under: Accessibility
The State of Karnataka has issued numerous notifications and schemes for the benefits of persons with disabilities. This is a brief overview of all these schemes, which are described thematically under the headings of education, employment, rehabilitation, social security and others.
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WIPO General Assemblies Approve Road Map on Treaty for the Visually Impaired: by Rahul Cherian — published Oct 11, 2012 — filed under: Accessibility, WIPO
In a significant development the 50th session of Assemblies of WIPO member states reached a breakthrough decision on how to complete negotiations on a pact to improve access to copyrighted works for the many visually impaired or print disabled people around the world.
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Report on the Progress in Manipuri Language Testing: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published May 10, 2015 — filed under: Accessibility
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is doing a project on developing a text-to-speech software in 15 Indian languages. This blog post captures the key updates of the work done by CIS team for Manipuri language.
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Report on 15 days Training in Basic Computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in Oriya: by Nirmita Narasimhan — published Apr 30, 2015 — last modified May 10, 2015 01:41 PM — filed under: Accessibility
This programme was the first of its kind in the state of Orissa. The participants were mostly completely new to using computers and were also completely from the vernacular background. This training demonstrates that many more such regional level trainings should be organized in order to reach the untouched population of persons with blindness, and expose them to the advantages of today’s technology.
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April 2015 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 30, 2015 — last modified May 31, 2015 04:29 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Researchers at Work, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
Newsletter for the month of April below.
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August 2017 Newsletter: by Admin — published Aug 30, 2017 — last modified Oct 09, 2017 02:48 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
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Zero Project Conference on Accessibility: Innovative Policies and Practices for Persons with Disabilities: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 28, 2014 — last modified Mar 06, 2014 08:44 AM — filed under: Copyright, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
Essl Foundation, the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre convened an international conference at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria on February 27 and 28, 2014. Pranesh Prakash participated in the conference as a speaker. On February 27 he spoke on e-speak and on the following day (February 28) he spoke in a session on Copyright & the Marrakesh Treaty: Opportunities and Challenges.
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Are Elections Fair to People With Special Needs?: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 09, 2014 — filed under: Accessibility
City-based think tanks have submitted a report to the Election Commission saying elections in India are unfriendly to people with disabilities.
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