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                                      June 2013 Bulletin
                                    
 
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Our newsletter for the month of June 2013 can be accessed below.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Most popular apps inaccessible to millions of disabled, says study
                                    
 
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Booking cabs, buying food and making payments online seem like they're just a swipe and a tap away, but for millions of disabled Indians, these apps are not designed for them to use.
                                      
                                          
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                                      The Quest for Education – Persons with Disabilities, Severely Challenged 
                                     
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Education is the fundamental building block of development; it leads to an improved quality of life, employment, social acceptance and inclusion, national development and intellectual growth.
                                      
                                          
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                                      English gottila,job illa
                                    
 
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Quoted as the ‘golden boy of Karnataka’, after winning two gold medals for India in Special Olympics in 2003 in Dublin, once Aslam Pasha quit his last job as a night watchman a week back.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Most popular smartphone apps inaccessible to disabled: Study
                                    
 
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Booking cabs, buying food and making payments online seem like they're just a swipe and a tap away, but for millions of disabled Indians, these apps are not designed for them to use.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Best Practices in Digital Accessibility
                                    
 
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Nirmita Narasimhan will be part of a discussion on the best practices in digital accessibility to be organized by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) on 19 December 2016 in Bengaluru. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Nirmita Narasimhan appointed to the Communication Policy Research (CPRsouth) Board 
                                    
 
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Dr. Nirmita Narasimhan has been appointed to the CPR South Board for a term of 3 years. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      December 2016 Newsletter
                                    
 
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Welcome to the December 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Digital accessibility in the Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act 2016
                                     
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This post summarizes the provisions for digital accessibility in the new Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016
                                      
                                          
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                                      September 2012 Bulletin
                                    
 
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Welcome to the newsletter of September 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features a second analysis by Snehashish Ghosh on the latest list of sites blocked by the Indian government from August 18, 2012 to August 21, 2012, a research on the issues of internet governance by Smarika Kumar, publication of a report on Accessibility of Government websites in India by Nirmita Narasimhan, Mukesh Sharma and Dinesh Kaushal, the Access to Knowledge programme plan and updates from the Wikipedia community in India on Indic languages,  updates from the Habits of Living workshop organised in Bengaluru, the events connected to the visits of international DNA experts, Helen Wallace and Jeremy Gruber in India, and introduce you to our Access to Knowledge team members. 
                                      
                                          
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