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Blog Entry Making Public Libraries Accessible to People with Disabilities
by Rahul Cherian published Jan 24, 2013 last modified Jan 24, 2013 11:10 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the 20 disability rights groups that wrote to the Ministry of Culture on January 23, 2013 seeking remedial action on the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in accessing public libraries in India.
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Blog Entry Linking Commercial Availability and Exceptions in the Treaty for Visually Impaired/Persons with Disabilities
by Rahul Cherian published Jan 23, 2013 — filed under:
After the landmark WIPO General Assembly meeting in December 2012 that decided to convene a diplomatic conference in June 2013 on the Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disabilities, the Special Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights starting on February 18, 2013 is critical, says Rahul Cherian.
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Blog Entry Accessible Broadcasting in India
by Srividya Vaidyanathan published Jan 11, 2013 last modified Jan 28, 2013 05:28 AM — filed under: ,
The abridged version of International Telecommunication Union's "Making Television Accessible" Report which we published last year has been broadened in scope and is now called "Accessible Broadcasting in India" report.
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Blog Entry National Resource Kit: The Andhra Chapter (Revised)
by Anandhi Viswanathan published Dec 31, 2012 last modified Feb 12, 2014 05:21 AM — filed under:
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 Andhra Pradesh.
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Blog Entry 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: ,
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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December 2012 Bulletin
by Prasad Krishna published Dec 30, 2012 last modified Jan 16, 2013 05:15 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
We at the Centre for Internet & Society wish you all a great year ahead. In the December 2012 newsletter, we bring you the draft early chapters of our “National Resource Kit” project for persons with disabilities (covering four southern states); and accessibility-related comments on the Twelfth Five Year Plan; the draft research on pervasive technologies and access to knowledge that we presented at the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Brazil; our comments on the privacy implications of including RFID tags in the proposed Rule 138A of the Motor Vehicle Rules, a report on the open access lectures delivered by Prof. Leslie Chan during his tour of India, reports of Wikipedia-related workshops conducted across three cities, and news and media coverage.
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Blog Entry 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:
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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Blog Entry National Resource Kit: The Tamil Nadu Chapter (Call for Comments)
by Shruti Ramakrishnan published Dec 29, 2012 last modified Nov 07, 2013 06:20 AM — filed under:
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 Tamil Nadu.
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Blog Entry Comments and Feedback on the Draft Twelfth Five Year Plan with respect to Persons with Disabilities
by Rahul Cherian published Dec 28, 2012 — filed under:
The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the ten organizations representing people with disabilities that sent comments and feedback on the draft twelfth five year plan.
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Blog Entry WIPO to Convene a Diplomatic Conference in Morocco to Finalise TVI
by Rahul Cherian published Dec 24, 2012 — filed under: ,
In a landmark development, on December 18, 2012, the Extraordinary General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed to convene a diplomatic conference, likely to be in Morocco, in June of next year to finalise the Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disabilities.
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