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Report on 15 days Training in Basic Computing at RNKS
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<b>The NVDA team organized a 15 days training in basic computing at Rajasthan Natrahin Kalyan Sansthan (RNKS) in Jaipur. The training programme held from June 1 - 15, 2015 was attended by 12 delegates. Mrityunjay Kumar was the trainer. The basic training for computers was targeted for school going children of RNKS.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The aim was to enable them to at least start using a computer as a Tool for Reading and Writing in Hindi. Along with knowledge of Basic computer Operations, the participants were also taught about the use of Bookshare Online Library, Use of Android and other Assistive Devices.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Report from Master Trainer: Mritunjay Kumar</h3>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Day 1: We have learnt Keyboard orientation and Introduction to computer, like what is a computer, where do you use a computer and advantages of computer.</li>
<li>Day 2: We have learnt Typing and introduction of screen reader, what screen reader is and how many types of screen reader. Also discussed about input and output devices.</li>
<li>Day 3: We have played small game about typing, how do we use fingers do typing? Also explained desktop and taskbar concept.</li>
<li>Day 4: We have learnt about software and types of software, There are three types of software, also explained menu, what is menu? What types of menu?</li>
<li>Day 5: We have learnt Opening closing and saving the document, editing concept have also been discussed.</li>
<li>Day 6: We have learnt how to cutting, copying and pasting the text in documents. Also we discussed Hindi alphabet.</li>
<li>Day 8: We have done Hindi typing and we have written small story in Hindi language.</li>
<li>Day 9: We have learnt File folder management and explain concept of dialog box, what is dialog box, types of dialog box.</li>
<li>Day 10: We learnt find and replace feature using Microsoft word document. Also explained how to create table in Microsoft Word.</li>
<li>Day 11: We have learnt spelling tool.</li>
<li>Day 12: We have discussed brief history of internet, and how will be do Google search. Also we learnt how to open website using NVDA</li>
<li>Day 13: We discussed about book share website, then we have learnt how to open book share website, and how to download books. Also we explain about android. </li>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-15-days-training-in-basic-computing-at-rnks'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-15-days-training-in-basic-computing-at-rnks</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-07-21T15:16:55ZBlog EntryReport on Kannada eSpeak Training with NVDA
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<b>NVDA team conducted a two day training programme at Mitra Jyothi in Bangalore (June 8 and 9, 2015). Forty-three delegates attended the training programme.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This workshop was successful in training 43 members in reading and typing in Kannada . It was a “Dream Come True “ feeling for many of them who were waiting to express their thoughts in the regional language. They are now happy as they can continue to write poems , stories etc in their regional language without any external help to type or read. <br /><br />For the job seekers it is an added advantage as in many government jobs they expect them to make reports and type documents in the official language and visually impaired are now equipped with those skills. It is very important for promotional examinations at various levels during the career. It was indeed a very useful workshop for the visually impaired students and professionals in Karnataka. This training also included some telugu and hindi speaking students who were trained to read and write in their regional language.<br /><br /></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-kannada-espeak-training-with-nvda'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-kannada-espeak-training-with-nvda</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-07-22T02:14:39ZBlog EntryReport on 30 Days Summer Course on Basic Computer Competencies and Language Proficiency
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<b>The month long summer course was held at Karna Vidya Technology Centre, Thiru-Vi-Ka, Industrial Estate, Chennai and was attended by 20 delegates.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the support of Centre for Internet Society (CIS), Karna Vidya Technology Centre (KVTC) has conducted 30 days Summer Course on Basic Computer Competencies and Language Proficiency to introduce, strengthen and enhance the students on Computer Operations and language proficiency.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Inauguration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">On the first of May 2015, the Summer course was inaugurated by Mrs. Sumathi, a Tamil poet cum volunteer. The function started off with a melodious invocation by KVTC trainee. The manager, KVTC, welcomed the invitees and participants. The course trainers outsketched the details of the course. It was followed by the chief guest’s address. The guest emphasized on the the need for professionalism and commitment. She inaugurated the course and conveyed her best wishes to all the trainees. With the vote of Thanks by one of the trainers from KVTC, the function came to an end.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Sessions:</b><br />The sessions are designed as:<br />02 00 pm – 04 00 pm Computers <br />04 10 pm – 06 00 pm English communication Skills. <br />Between 04 00 pm – 04 10 pm Tea Break</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Session on Computers with NVDA</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The trainees are given a thorough understanding of NVDA, it’s installation process, commands, Typing Speed and Accuracy, Desktop orientation, Menu Bars, Dialogue boxes, editing and alignment in MS. Word. They were also given training on Tamil Typing using NVDA. Online Bookshare Library was also introduced to them and some have got registered in the Library.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">English Language proficiency :</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Students had a valuable training on English Communication Skills. They were taught basic grammar and given various practical exercises on Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Home assignments are also given and assessed. <br /><br />Evaluation: The students were assessed at regular intervals and guided for their betterment. Special focus was given to slow learners. <br /><br />Benefits: <br />This Summer Course was very benefitial, Since it focused and enabled three different categories of students namely: <br />Students pursuing Secondary (10th Std), <br />Higher Secondary (12th Std) and <br />Higher education (Graduates) <br />All the 20 students learnt the basics of NVDA and English only from KVTC. At the end of the course, they felt happy, as they were able to breathe the air of independent learning using screen readers. They have assured us that they would minimize their visit to reading centres and make use of E texts, Audio books and Online Bookshare Library for their studies. The trainees were given a folder comprising:</p>
<ol style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Certificate</li>
<li>A Book on English communications both in print and audio CD. </li>
</ol>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Valedictory Function</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The valedictory function was graced by Mr. Pankesh and Ms. Abhirami from Paypal. We also had a special invitee Mr. Ramakrishnan Accessibility Consultant, IBM, Bangalore. The function began with the invocation and the manager, KVTC, welcomed the gathering. Then, Mr. Ramakrishnan highlighted on the various avenues available for the visually impaired candidates. The guests congratulated every trainee and wished them the best for their future endeavours. They also handed over the Study Kit for every trainee. The function ended with National anthem.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Thanks to Supporters</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Karna Vidya Technology Centre would like to submit it’s sincere gratitude to all it’s supporters for being with all the endeavours of the centre at all stages. Especially, The Summer Course on Basic Computer Competencies and Language Proficiency, conducted from 1st May 2015 to 31st May 2015 had seen best outcome from the student participants. The support and guidance of DR. Homiyar Ji, CEO, NAB Delhi, The cooperation of centre for Internet Society, Bangalore - our funding partner for this course and our parent club Rotary club of Madras Coromandel enabled us to conduct the course smoothly and effectively.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-30-days-summer-course-on-basic-computer-competencies-and-language-proficiency'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-30-days-summer-course-on-basic-computer-competencies-and-language-proficiency</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-07-12T13:55:05ZBlog EntryReport on eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA Training Workshop
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<b>The training programme was held from May 25 to 29, 2015 at Differently Abled Children Section, District Central Library, Coimbatore. Twenty-one delegates attended.</b>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Inauguration</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA Training workshop planned for 5 days (25<sup>th</sup> May 2015 to 29<sup>th</sup> May 2015) extensively for visually challenged school, college students and teachers was <b>inaugurated</b> on 25<sup>th</sup> May 2015 morning by Mr. J. Karthikeyan. District Library Officer, Coimbatore. Mr. S. Shankar Subbiah, Assistive Technology Consultant and representative of National Association for Blind, New Delhi and The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, the sponsors of the workshop gave the Welcome talk. He also explained the purpose of the Workshop with the need for Tamil computing becoming necessity among the visually challenged in the present educational and employment context. It is most required with the Government distributing Cost Free Laptops preloaded with NVDA and the equipment and technology cost becoming Nil. The Librarian of the District Central Library gave the Vote of thanks, thanking the sponsors, the District Library Officer for the opportunity to train visually challenged members of the Library on Tamil with NVDA, and placed a request to include the staff of the Children's section as they would be able to train the school going Children further.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The well-equipped and accessible section of the District Central Library, Coimbatore served as the venue for training. In order to facilitate the participants with more concentrated and time efforts, High Tea and Lunch were also served for the Training days at the Centre. There were volunteers to assist the Trainees and they served enthusiastically. Many of the students used their Laptops and those who did not have a laptop were given access through the computers available in the section. The participant trainees numbering to 21 including the section staff were from Coimbatore district and nearby districts like Tiruppur, and Erode of Tamilnadu state.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop began with Resource persons, Mr. S. Shankar Subbiah and Mr. R. Jaganathan, a low vision employee of the Library and a resource export continuing with the training activities on their expertise areas.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Activities conducted during the training period:</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 1 - 25/05/2015</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Forenoon</p>
<ul>
<li>The whole group of Trainees were installed or updated with the latest versions of NVDA</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">A general overview on Operating System, Applications available in Windows, various File formats, Screen Readers and other Assistive Technology like OCR, Scan and Read applications available for Visually Challenged were dealt with</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The session was conducted in an interactive manner to understand and assess the computer skills of the participant trainees.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Afternoon</p>
<ul>
<li>The major and sub menus of NVDA were explained to the trainees after few of them were new to that.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Trainees were given hands on training by making them to change the settings, configurations by themselves and checking out the changes.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The trainees were given comprehensive passages to be read in NVDA to get accustomed to the voice modulation and asked questions based on it</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 2 - 26/05/2015</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Forenoon</p>
<ul>
<li>Tamil keyboard layout mapping of Microsoft Windows for default Unicode Tamil Font typing were introduced to the trainees by the Resource person.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The whole group of Trainees were trained to identify the keys for vowels and consonants of Tamil language, type and practice by themselves with the volunteers supporting them, when they had difficulties.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Afternoon</p>
<ul>
<li>The Trainees were trained to identify the keys for combinations of vowels and combinations with two letter, three letter, four letter word units given for typing and practicing by themselves as they picked up faster.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>A play and learn session was organized to spell out connected words for typing practice.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>To make the training workshop more live, the participants also were requested and exhibited their Tamil native talents and knowledge.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 3 - 27/05/2015</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Forenoon</p>
<ul>
<li>The Trainees were trained by giving large sets of five and bigger letter units of words to type and practice as a revision.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>It was followed up by smaller phrases and then sentences to be typed by the Trainees.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The trainees at this point of time, introduced short cuts for navigation within the text, spell check, cut, copy, paste commands</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Afternoon</p>
<ul>
<li>The trainees were made to listen to the Tamil text paragraphs with the help of NVDA screen-reader supported by eSpeak voice</li>
</ul>
<p><br />The trainees were suggested to type out the phrases listened on a separate document</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 4 - 28/05/2015</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Forenoon</p>
<ul>
<li>The trainees were introduced to toggle language between English and Tamil for bilingual content typing and practice.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The trainees were trained on file operations like simple formatting, folder creation, saving the file in Unicode format to required folder and retrieval of the particular file. Similarly, for navigating, opening the file saved and continuing editing.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Afternoon</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">As a reinforcement on the learning process, a Quiz Programme was conducted to the Trainees on Microsoft Tamil layout and key strokes required for different Tamil words, phrases.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Introduction to HTML, various tags and formatting that can be done, Forms and fields, Email Clients and Browsers were given to the Trainees. Usage of Tamil in Internet, and the browsers supporting the Unicode formatted content and the NVDA development efforts to support Internet browsing was discussed.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The trainees were given HTML contents like Newspapers formatted to navigate and read for practice</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The students were given downloaded online application Forms (as Internet was restricted to few computers in the library) and explained form navigation. They were assessed for their short cut using</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Day 5 - 29/05/2015</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Forenoon</p>
<ul>
<li>Introduction on DAISY books and knowledge sharing on the available resources to read a DAISY book was done.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Demonstration on using Android based tablets and mobile phones to access the Tamil DAISY books given to the Trainees using Bookshare.org. The Trainees were also given information to subscribe for Bookshare membership and Book search and retrieval.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The trainees were also given information on different groups operating on Internet like Access India, Valluvan Paarvai online, the benefits and encouraged their participation for enriching their knowledge and practicing their language content writing, and development skills.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Guest also had an interactive session assessing the participants Tamil computing skills by questions and also introduced them to one another Tamil keyboard Layout 'Anthaga Kavi' developed by visually challenged community. He recommended them to try that after practicing the present learned Microsoft layout for more easier typing experience.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">The Valedictory Function</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA Training workshop conducted for 5 days (25<sup>th</sup> May 2015 to 29<sup>th</sup> May 2015) had a brief Valedictory function presided by Mr. G. Venkateshan, State Bank of India Zonal Office, Coimbatore and an experienced visually challenged person on Tamil computing who delivered the valedictory address and stressed on Tamil computing skills necessity for higher education and employment opportunities. The District Library Officer, Mr. J. Karthikeyan also felicitated the gathering and distributed the Certificates to the participants. Vote of thanks to CIS, NAB and the organizers was given by Mr. Muthu Venkatasubramanian, Co-ordinator for the Differently Abled Children section and a visually challenged participant. The training felt much useful and requested to extend in batches for more persons ended up with the National Anthem and Lunch served for all.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Feedback</h2>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Mr. Ashok, a student of Final year graduation felt how easy it was to learn Tamil typing and he is looking forward to eagerly participate in groups and though he had subscribed to Bookshare, he had not read Tamil books. But, now he is confident to download and read Tamil content.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Mr. S. Sabareesh, Student from Loyola College, Chennai felt that his vacation to his native town gave him a good learning experience on Tamil computing and various other concepts, shortcuts for efficiently using NVDA.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Mr. Jeeyawolhok, a Government School Teacher present felt that now it is necessity of visually challenged persons to work with Computers even in the field of Teaching profession and this Training gave him more confident as being a Tamil teacher.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Ms. Loganayaki, an English Literature student felt that she did not think Tamil typing was so easy before and now would read large volume of e-contents of Tamil novels available in the Library as well as practice her Tamil writing skills on Computer.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Mrs. Saraswathi, the mother of Mr. Shankar, 10<sup>th</sup> Grade student and participant trainee gave a feedback that she was worried on how she had to read the whole Tamil books for her son. Reading it as e-content through NVDA and eSpeak voice becoming familiar to her son made her job easy. And, he could also practice and revise his lessons like any other child by typing the contents in Tamil as others do by writing. She thanked the organizers for the workshop and wanted one such run for school children with visual impairments from 8<sup>th</sup> standard onwards conducted by school or at least in the Library regularly. This would help them in their higher standards and education for being more independent and not to depend on readers for their academic requirements.</li>
</ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-training-workshop'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-training-workshop</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-06-04T13:44:25ZBlog EntryReport on Training in Basic Computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in Assamese
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<b>This training was held at Monfort School in Guwahati on May 9 and 10, 2015. Laishram Lingappa was the trainer. Eleven participants attended the programme.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Situated in the backdrop of steep hills, Monfort school was the perfect location for training in use of eSpeak Assamese. The delegates came from all across Assam, and represented various organizations. The participants were extremely impressed with the quality of the eSpeak Assamese, and were able to follow the text-to-speech (TTS) very fast.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The visit to Gauhati University’s Cell for the Differently Abled was also a grand success. A presentation about the power of NVDA and eSpeak was made in front of the Chairman of Gauhati University, Registrar, Joint Registrar, Head of the Cell for the Differently-abled, Chief Librarian and the Chief of the Computer Section.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">At the end of the two hour presentation, it has been decided that the Cell for the Differently-abled will take the lead in the following aspects:</p>
<ul>
<li>Preparing a complete list of Persons with Blindness studying in various Colleges of Gauhati University</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Organizing a Sensatising workshop for the identified Persons with Blindness.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Negociate with the Publishers associated with the Gauhati University, for Accessible Bookks.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Identify staff who could be trained in making books Accessible in both English and Assamese.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>NAB – Delhi will provide Technical support to the Cell for the Differently Abled, as and when required.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A visit was also undertaken to the Gauhati Blind school, where in the students were presented with the different accessibility solutions. They were shown the Smart Cane along with the Plextalk Vachak. Most of the students took keen interest in knowing about the various solutions including eSpeak Assamese. Fortunately the school is supported by some very enterprising young Blind persons, who are extremely good in Technology. These volunteers have taken up upon themselves to teach computers to the students of Gauhati Blind School.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A 15 day follow up training will also be organized either at the sister organization of Monfort school in the district of Tora or the Cell for the Differently-abled in Gauhati.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Our thanks to Laishram for organizing the four day trip to Gauhati.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-espeak-assamese'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-espeak-assamese</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-06-03T02:44:33ZBlog EntryReport on Training on the Use of eSpeak Hindi on Windows and Android Platforms
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<b>Indian Association for the Blind conducted a one day workshop on the use of eSpeak for Windows and Android platforms on May 28, 2015. Twenty-seven delegates attended the training programme held at Indian Association for the Blind, Delhi. Kaifee Asami was the trainer. The programme introduced eSpeak for reading and writing in Hindi on both computers and mobiles.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The session started with introduction to NVDA and its advantages as a screen reader. This was followed by demonstration of reading Hindi text using eSpeak. Different variants of eSpeak were also demonstrated.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A hands on session was conducted following the comprehension, where in the participants were made to type the Hindi characters and a few simple words. This was followed by demonstration of the Android platform and its versatility. The participants were shown how to download eSpeak from the Google Play store and how to configure eSpeak in the keyboard and language settings.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A few of the participants who had internet connectivity on their android devices were then able to read Hindi newspapers on the internet. The overall satisfaction of the students was appreciable. Most of them expressed deep satisfaction on the day's event.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-use-of-espeak-hindi-on-windows-and-android-platforms'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-use-of-espeak-hindi-on-windows-and-android-platforms</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-07-21T14:30:54ZBlog EntryReport on the Training in the Use of eSpeak for Indian Languages during TOT Conducted by Enable India
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<b>
Enable India, Bangalore conducted a TOT for training computer teachers for the blind, which was held from May 11 to 20, 2015 at Blind Empowerment Association, Kolkata and was attended by 26 delegates.
</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A day was dedicated to training the participants in the use of Espeak with Indian Languages. The participants from various states were educated in the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Advantages of NVDA.</li>
<li>Important configurations of NVDA.</li>
<li>How to select various languages in Windows 7 and 8.</li>
<li>The Indian language keyboard.</li>
<li>Sequence of characters.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">All the participants were made to type in their respective languages. It was noted that the participants were able to understand the layout of the Indian Language keyboard very easily.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The intention of adding Indian language training in the TOT was to empower the trainers to teach their students in their own mother tongue.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/espeak-indian-languages-during-tot-conducted-by-enable-india'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/espeak-indian-languages-during-tot-conducted-by-enable-india</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-07-21T02:32:43ZBlog EntryReport on Training in Basic Computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in Marathi & Konkani
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<b>The training programme was organized at International Youth Hostel and Estrila du Mar, sponsored by Rotary Club of Goa and Estrila Du Mar from April 20 to 22, 2015. Seventy-seven delegates attended the training programme. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Rotary club of Goa organized a RYLA for the visually challenged youth of Goa and Maharashtra. The event was sponsored by Estrila Du Mar. The event had components of career counselling, introduction to assistive technology, demonstration of assistive aids and appliances and reading and writing in Marathi and Konkani. The participants were extremely eager to learn about the different reading and writing solutions. They were given hands on demonstration of all the assistive devices.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The programme was inaugurated by the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of Goa. This was followed by a session on "Needs Assessment" from the participants. Most of the participants expressed a strong desire to learn "How to Read and Write in Marathi and Konkani". The main sessions were conducted by Taha Haaziq, Resource Centre Coordinator, Central Library, Goa, Miss Zainab, Coordinator, Bookshare India and Dr. Homiyar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The second day of the programme was dedicated to demonstrations of reading solutions. Participants were encouraged to listen to the eSpeak Synthesiser and understand the comprehension in Marathi. Most were comfortable listening to an e-copy of Sakal, a Marathi daily.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Many participants who had Android phones with them tried to read in Marathi using eSpeak at the end of day 2.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Day 3 was reserved for writing in Marathi. The participants who had basic knowledge of computers were encouraged to practice the in-script keyboard layout. They managed to write simple words at the end of the session.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The three day event was validated by the President of Rotary Club of Goa. The participants expressed about their learnings from the event.Most of them said that they had gained a lot of new knowledge and wanted to attend a short term basic computing workshop, for improving their skills. All the participants received a gift hamper containing CD’s loaded with set up of NVDA along with its tutorials.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-e-speak-marathi-konkani'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-e-speak-marathi-konkani</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-06-03T15:47:18ZBlog EntryReport on Training in Basic Computing with use of eSpeak and NVDA in Oriya
http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-espeak-nvda-odia
<b>This training was held at Orissa Association for the Blind at Bhubaneswar from February 8 to 10, 2015. Thirty six delegates attended the programme. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The highlight of the training was that we received an overwhelming response from the participants. The training had to be conducted in the main auditorium of the Orissa Association for the Blind, instead of the computer lab, which had only a capacity of seating 10 trainees. The participants acknowledged the importance of Oriya support for their career growth. There was a lot of excitement amongst the participants to know how to read and type in Oriya.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The eSpeak training was preceded by a Career Counseling Workshop, which highlighted the importance of Reading and Writing in the local vernacular language for a career growth. The main challenge faced during the training was that there was virtually no material available in Orriya on the internet in Unicode font, for the participants to practice reading. Hence the participants had to first learn typing and than create their own little lines to read.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The training was conducted by Ganshyam Mohante, who had also contributed as the tester for Oriya. The Inauguration was attended by the whole managing committee of Orissa Association for the Blind, who had specially assembled for the event.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Orissa Association for the Blind is also very keen on organizing the 15 day follow up programme, where in more persons will be trained in reading and writing in Oriya, along with the knowledge for using basic computers.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-espeak-nvda-odia'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-espeak-nvda-odia</a>
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No publishernirmitaNVDAAccessibilityE-Speak2015-06-03T01:24:53ZBlog EntryMarch 2015 Bulletin
http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/march-bulletin-2015
<b>Newsletter for the month of March.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We are happy to share with you the third issue of the CIS newsletter (March 2015). The past editions of the newsletter can be accessed at <a href="http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters">http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters</a>.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Highlights</h2>
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<li>In a landmark judgement upholding the freedom of expression, the Supreme Court of India on March 24, 2015 struck down a provision (Section 66 A of the IT Act) which provided the power to arrest anyone for posting offensive comments online. Geetha Hariharan in her <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/no-more-66a">blog post</a> captures the happenings which led to the court ruling.</li>
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<li>CIS in partnership with Privacy International is doing the GSMA project that seeks to understand different legal and regulatory aspects of security and surveillance in India. The research outputs published thus far are now online in a <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gsma-research-outputs">consolidated blog post</a>.</li>
<li>CIS as part of its RAW programme is inviting abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.</li>
<li>CIS is pleased to announce that the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is supporting a new collaborative publishing project led by T.A.J. Residency / SKE Projects and or-bits.com. The first volume of the series titled <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/announcing-silicon-plateau-01">'Silicon Plateau'</a> will feature contributions by a group of well-known artists, researchers, and writers.</li>
<li>Sumandro Chattapadhyay's paper titled <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/whose-open-data-community-is-it-abstract">'Whose Open Data Community is it?</a> Reflections on the Open Data Ecosystem in India' has been accepted for presentation at the Open Data Research Symposium to be held during the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada, on May 28-29 2015.</li>
<li>CIS has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001 - 2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. The sections will discuss the activities and experiences of civil society organisations in Asia and India, respectively, in national, regional, and global Internet governance processes. <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/civil-society-organisations-and-internet-governance-in-asia-and-india-outlines"> Draft outlines of the sections are shared here </a> . Comments and suggestions are invited. </li>
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<li> CIS has prepared an <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form">open proposal</a> to the Wikimedia Foundation to support its annual plan with USD 208,603. </li>
<li> CIS has prepared a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_July_2015_-_June_2016"> draft work plan for the period July 2015 to June 2016 </a> . This work plan consists of 18 programs across 6 verticals.</li>
<li>On December 24, 2015, Bharti Airtel, one of India's largest telecom players, announced the introduction of a new 'VOIP' usage policy for its mobile users. Tarun Krishnakumar <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/trai-ing-times-the-story-so-far">analyses the developments in a blog post</a>. </li>
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<li> In his <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-opinion-article-shyam-ponappa-march-4-2015-railway-takeaways-for-digital-india"> monthly column published in the Business Standard </a> on March 4, 2015, Shyam Ponappa writes "systems and methods for access through elements that provide connectivity - spectrum, fibre-optic cable, coaxial cable, or "twisted-pairs" for ADSL - must be devised in an integrated manner and made available at low cost.</li>
<li>NVDA team as part of its project on developing text-to-speech software in 15 Indian languages has published key updates of<a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-the-progress-in-bengali-language-testing">Bengali</a> and <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-assamese-language-testing">Assamese</a> language testing.</li>
<li>In the year 2013 Nehaa Chaudhari had worked on a module on IP Rights for UNESCO's Open Access Curriculum. The <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/unesco-nehaa-chaudhari-march-19-2015-communication-and-information-resources-news-and-in-focus-articles-unesco-open-access-curriculum-is-now-online"> module was published </a> recently and is available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO license. </li>
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<li> Rohini Lakshané in a <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/compilation-of-mobile-phone-patent-litigation-cases-in-india">blog post</a> chronicles information about big-ticket lawsuits pertaining to mobile technology patents filed in India. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">► Vacancies at CIS</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS is seeking applications for these posts:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-assistant-project-manager">Assistant Project Manager</a> : To assist the Project Manager on all tasks relating to the organization of the Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, which will take place in New Delhi from December 15-17, 2015. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/jobs/internship-application">Internship</a> : CIS is providing opportunities for students enrolled in graduate programmes to undertake internship at its offices in Bangalore and Delhi. Eligible candidates are welcome to participate in our internship programme. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">---------------------------------------------- <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility"> <br /> Accessibility and Inclusion </a> <br /> ---------------------------------------------- <br /> Under a grant from the Hans Foundation we are doing two projects. The first project is on creating a national resource kit of state-wise laws, policies and programmes on issues relating to persons with disabilities in India. CIS in partnership with CLPR (Centre for Law and Policy Research) compiled the National Compendium of Policies, Programmes and Schemes for Persons with Disabilities (29 states and 6 union territories). The publication has been finalised and is being printed. The draft chapters and the quarterly reports can be accessed on the <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/national-resource-kit-project">project page</a>. The second project is on developing text-to-speech software for 15 Indian languages. The progress made so far in the project can be accessed <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/resources/nvda-text-to-speech-synthesizer">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►NVDA and eSpeak</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Monthly Updates</b></p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/march-nvda-e-speak-report.pdf">March 2015 Report</a> (Suman Dogra; March 31, 2015). </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Language Testing Reports</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-assamese-language-testing">Assamese Language</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; March 23, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-the-progress-in-bengali-language-testing">Bengali Language</a> (Nirmita Narasimhan; March 24, 2015). </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-nvda-and-e-speak-in-hindi"><b> </b>Report on Training on the Use of eSpeak in Hindi with NVDA </a> (Organized by NVDA team; Dr. Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation University, Lucknow; March 16 - 29, 2015). </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k">Access to Knowledge</a> <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------- <br /> As part of the Access to Knowledge programme we are doing two projects. The first one (Pervasive Technologies) under a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is for research on the complex interplay between pervasive technologies and intellectual property to support intellectual property norms that encourage the proliferation and development of such technologies as a social good. The second one (Wikipedia) under a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation is for the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors and explore innovative approaches to building projects.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Pervasive Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the Pervasive Technologies project, Rohini Lakshané has written a blog entry that chronicles information on big-ticket lawsuits pertaining to mobile technology patents filed in India. As part of broader Access to Knowledge work UNESCO published a module on Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Alternative to a Strict Copyright Regime.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Module Units</b></p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/unesco-nehaa-chaudhari-march-19-2015-communication-and-information-resources-news-and-in-focus-articles-unesco-open-access-curriculum-is-now-online"> Intellectual Property Rights - Open Access for Researchers </a> (Nehaa Chaudhari; March 19, 2015, UNESCO). Nehaa worked on a module on Intellectual Property Rights for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s Open Access Curriculum (Curriculum for Researchers) as part of a project for the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia. UNESCO published the module this year. Nehaa Chaudhari and Varun Baliga were among the Module preparation team. Nehaa Chaudhari was the writer for Units 1, 2 and 3: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright and Alternative to a Strict Copyright Regime. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mobile-app-developer-series-terms-of-agreement-iv"><b> </b>Mobile App Developer Series: Terms of Agreement - Part IV </a> (Samantha Cassar; March 23, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/compilation-of-mobile-phone-patent-litigation-cases-in-india"> Compilation of Mobile Phone Patent Litigation Cases in India </a> (Rohini Lakshané; March 15, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/interviews-with-app-developers-open-source-community-and-contradictions-iii"> Interviews with App Developers: Open Source, Community, and Contradictions - Part III </a> (Samantha Cassar; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/interviews-with-app-developers-name-of-the-game-part-iv"> Interviews with App Developers: Name of the Game - Part IV </a> (Samantha Cassar; March 24, 2015). </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><br /> <b>Participation in Events</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/conference-on-standards-setting-organisations-and-frand"><b> </b>Conference on Standards Setting Organisations (SSOs) and FRAND </a> (Organized by MHRD Chair on Intellectual Property Rights, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Advocacy (CIPRA), National Law School of India University, Bangalore, in association with Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd.; Bangalore; March 21-22, 2015). Rohini Lakshané participated in this event. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/fourth-ipr-researchers-confluence">4th IPR Researchers Confluence</a> (Organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai and National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai with support from Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi; March 27 - 28, 2015). Maggie Huang presented intermediary findings of the research entitled "India's Music Copyright Management in the Age of Music Streaming". </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/economic-times-evelyn-fok-shonali-advani-march-20-2015-the-perils-of-not-protecting-intellectual-property-for-new-ventures"><b> </b>The perils of not protecting intellectual property for new ventures </a> (Evelyn Fok and Shonali Advani; Economic Times; March 20, 2015). Sunil Abraham gave his inputs. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Wikipedia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As part of the <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan">project grant from the Wikimedia Foundation</a> we have reached out to more than 3500 people across India by organizing more than 100 outreach events and catalysed the release of encyclopaedic and other content under the Creative Commons (CC-BY-3.0) license in four Indian languages (21 books in Telugu, 13 in Odia, 4 volumes of encyclopaedia in Konkani and 6 volumes in Kannada, and 1 book on Odia language history in English).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Announcements</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form"><b> </b>Open Proposal for Funding </a> : CIS has prepared an open proposal for funding for about USD 208,603 from the Wikimedia Foundation. CIS is inviting comments on the proposal. CIS is proposing to contribute to the qualitative and quantitative growth of 12 Wikimedia projects across 9 Indian languages and associated communities, in addition to providing need based support to other Indic communities. </li>
<li> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_July_2015_-_June_2016">Access to Knowledge Work Plan</a> : CIS has prepared the India Access to Knowledge work plan (July 2015 to June 2016). The work plan consists of 18 programs across 6 verticals. These include eight programs in five language areas, two community strengthening initiatives, five stand-alone Wikimedia projects, creating movement resources, publicity, research and documentation, and general support and service to the movement. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015">Train the Trainer Program</a> (CEO Centre; Dodda Gubbi; Bangalore; February 26 - March 1; 2015). </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/hindustani-language-we-are-wikipedia">Hindustani Language: We Are Wikipedia</a> (Syed Muzamiluddin; March 27, 2015). </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Event</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar">2nd National Language Conference, Bhubaneswar</a> (Organized by Institute of Odia Studies and Research; Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar; March 30 - April 2, 2015). Subhashish Panigrahi presented a paper in Odia language in this conference as part of a panel discussion related to Odia language computing. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>News and Media Coverage</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/train-the-trainer-event-report-march-2-2015-udayavani-report">Train the Trainer</a> (Udayavani; March 2, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-hindu-ravi-prasad-kamila-more-articles-for-tulu-wikipedia">More articles for Tulu Wikipedia</a> (The Hindu; March 10, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/medianama-march-13-2015-sneha-johari-goi-body-national-mission-for-manuscripts-has-digitised-3-million-manuscripts"> GoI body National Mission for Manuscripts has digitised 3 million manuscripts </a> (Sneha Johari; Medianama; March 13, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/the-telegraph-march-29-2015-bangla-wiki-turns-ten">Bangla Wiki turns 10</a> (Sudeshna Banerjee, Showli Chakraborty and Abhinanda Datta; The Telegraph; March 29, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Events Co-organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/womens-history-month-india-2015">Women's History Month - India</a> (Organized by CIS-A2K and Wikimedia India; India, March 2015). March 8 is International Women's Day, and to celebrate this women in India organized edit-a-thons and meetups to create and expand articles of importance to women in Wikipedia in English and various Indian languages. Online events were organized for these Wikipedias: <a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%A8/%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AB/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8"> Bengali </a> , <a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86:%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8C%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B9%E0%A8%BE%E0%A9%9C%E0%A8%BE_2015_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A5%E0%A8%A8"> Punjabi </a> , <a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%A8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%9C%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95_%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%BE_%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B8_%E0%AD%A8%E0%AD%A6%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AB_%E0%AC%97%E0%AC%A3-%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE&redirect=no"> Odia </a> , <a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%A8-_%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AB#.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.AD.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.97.E0.A5.80_.E0.A4.B9.E0.A5.8B.E0.A4.A3.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.B0.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.BE_.E0.A4.AE.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.B2.E0.A4.BE_.E0.A4.B8.E0.A4.A6.E0.A4.B8.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.AF.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.82.E0.A4.A8.E0.A5.80"> Marathi </a> , <a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3%E0%B3%86_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%B9%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B3%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3%E0%B3%81_%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%96%E0%B2%A8_%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86"> Kannada </a> and <a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9E%E0%B4%82-2015"> Malayalam </a> . </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Openness</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Media Coverage</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/openness/news/idg-news-service-march-29-2015-john-riberio-india-backs-open-source-software-for-e-governance-projects"><b> </b>India backs open source software for e-governance projects </a> (originally published by IDG News Service was mirrored on the website of<a href="http://www.cio.com/article/2903513/india-backs-open-source-software-for-egovernance-projects.html">CIO</a> and <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2903512/india-backs-open-source-software-for-egovernance-projects.html">PC World</a>; March 29, 2015). Sunil Abraham gave his inputs. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">----------------------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance">Internet Governance</a> <br /> ----------------------------------------------- <br /> As part of its research on privacy and free speech, CIS is engaged with two different projects. The first one (under a grant from Privacy International and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) is on surveillance and freedom of expression (SAFEGUARDS). The second one (under a grant from MacArthur Foundation) is on studying the restrictions placed on freedom of expression online by the Indian government.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Freedom of Expression</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">India's Apex Court in a landmark decision struck down section 66A of the IT Act. The judgment provided great relief for advocates of freedom of speech on the Internet. The development attracted lots of media coverage to which CIS gave its inputs:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Articles</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/the-times-of-india-march-25-2015-sunil-abraham-internet-censorship-will-continue-in-opaque-fashion"><b> </b>Internet censorship will continue in opaque fashion </a> (Sunil Abraham; The Times of India; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bangalore-mirror-vidushi-marda-march-25-2015-historic-day-for-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-in-india"> Historic day for freedom of speech and expression in India </a> (Vidushi Marda; Bangalore Mirror; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-voices-march-25-2014-subhashish-panigrahi-indias-supreme-court-axes-online-censorship-law-but-challenges-remain"> India's Supreme Court Axes Online Censorship Law, But Challenges Remain </a> (Subhashish Panigrahi; Global Voices Online; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/bangalore-mirror-march-29-2015-sunil-abraham-big-win-for-freedom-of-speech-really"> Big win for freedom of speech. Really? </a> (Sunil Abraham; Bangalore Mirror; March 29, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/times-of-india-march-29-2015-pranesh-prakash-three-reasons-why-66a-is-momentous"> Three reasons why 66A verdict is momentous </a> (Pranesh Prakash; The Times of India; March 29, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/what-does-facebook-transparency-report-tell-us-about-indian-government-record-on-free-expression-and-privacy"><b> </b>What Does Facebook's Transparency Report Tell Us About the Indian Government's Record on Free Expression & Privacy? </a> (Pranesh Prakash; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/no-more-66a">No more 66A!</a> (Geetha Hariharan; March 24, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">· Requests to ICANN: CIS sent ICANN six requests to ICANN regarding ICANN's expenditure on travels and meetings, granular revenue, cyber-attacks on ICANN, ICANN's implementation of the NETmundial principles, complaints under the Ombudsman process, and information regarding revenues received from gTLD auctions. These were prepared by Geetha Hariharan:<a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-7-globalisation-advisory-groups">DIDP Request #7: Globalisation Advisory Groups</a> and <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/didp-request-8-organogram">DIDP Request #8: ICANN Organogram</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tech-law-forum-at-nalsar">Tech Law Form @ NALSAR</a> (Organized by NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad; March 7 and 8, 2015). Geetha Hariharan participated as a speaker. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/roundtable-on-icann-accountability">Roundtable on ICANN Accountability</a> (Organized by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), National Internet Exchange of India and Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University, Delhi; March 13, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">►Privacy</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Research Outputs</b></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS in collaboration with Privacy International, UK as part of GSMA project is conducting research to understand different legal and regulatory aspects of security and surveillance in India. The following outputs have been published: Indian Law and the Necessary Proportionate Principles (Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/security-surveillance-and-data-sharing.pdf"> Security, Surveillance and Data Sharing Schemes and Bodies in India </a> (Maria Xynou and Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/export-and-import-of-security-technologies-in-india.pdf"> Export and Import of Security Technologies in India: QA </a> (Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/regulation-of-cctvs-in-india.pdf">Regulation of CCTV's in India</a> (Elonnai Hickok), Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) and <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/mlats-and-cross-border-sharing-of-information-in-india.pdf"> Cross Border Sharing of Information in India </a> (Maria Xynou and Elonnai Hickok), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/composition-of-service-providers-in-india.pdf">Composition of Service Providers in India</a> (Lovisha Aggarwal), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/surveillance-and-security-industry-in-india.pdf"> The Surveillance and Security Industry in India - An Analysis of Indian Security Expos </a> (Divij Joshi), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/analysis-of-news-items-and-cases-on-surveillance-and-digital-evidence-in-india.pdf"> An Analysis of News Items and Cases on Surveillance and Digital Evidence in India </a> (Lovisha Aggarwal), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/policy-recommendations-for-surveillance-law-in-india-and-analysis-of-legal-provisions-on-surveillance-in-india-and-the-necessary-and-proportionate-principles.pdf"> Policy Recommendations for Surveillance Law in India and an Analysis of Legal Provisions on Surveillance in India and the Necessary & Proportionate Principles </a> (Maria Xynou), <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/surveillance-industry-india.pdf">The Surveillance Industry in India</a> (Maria Xynou), and <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/state-of-cyber-security-and-surveillance-in-india.pdf"> State of Cyber Security and Surveillance in India: A Review of the Legal Landscape </a> (Elonnai Hickok).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/talk-on-cybersecurity-and-internet-of-things">Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things</a> (Organized by US Consulate Chennai, Cyber Security & Privacy Foundation and CIS; Hotel Atria, Palace Road, Bangalore; March 19, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Participation in Events</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/connecting-the-dots-options-for-future-action"><b> </b>CONNECTing the Dots: Options for Future Action </a> (Organized by UNESCO; March 3 - 4, 2015; Paris). Elonnai Hickok participated in the event. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/vox-pol-workshop-on-the-role-of-social-media-and-internet-companies-in-responding-to-violent-online-extremism-5-6-march-budapest"> Vox Pol Workshop on the Role of Social Media and Internet Companies in Responding to Violent Online Extremism </a> (Organized by VOX-Pol network; March 5-6, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/news">News & Media Coverage</a> <br /> ---------------------------------</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">CIS gave its inputs to the following media coverage:</p>
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<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-of-india-march-6-2015-uploaded-and-blocked-a-daylong-battle-rages-on-web-over-bbc-documentary"> Uploaded and blocked, a daylong battle rages on the web over BBC documentary </a> (Kim Arora; The Times of India; March 6, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/economic-times-march-17-2015-neha-alawadhi-india-tops-list-of-content-restrictions-requests-says-facebook"> India tops list of content restrictions requests, says Facebook </a> (Neha Alawadhi; Economic Times; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/business-insider-march-17-2015-if-you-thought-india-is-a-country-where-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-are-fundamental-rights-think-twice"> If you thought India is a country where freedom of speech and expression are fundamental rights, think twice! </a> (Business Insider; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-17-2015-aadhaar-an-identity-crisis">Live Chat: Aadhaar: An identity crisis?</a> (Hindu; March 17, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/tele-analysis-gyana-ranjan-swain-delhi-govt-sets-up-wifi-task-force"> Delhi Govt Sets Up WiFi Task Force </a> (Originally published by Press Trust of India; TeleAnalysis; March 18, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/scroll-mridula-chari-march-19-2015-indias-plan-to-offer-citizens-digital-lockers-poses-a-privacy-threat-say-experts"> India's plan to offer citizens digital lockers poses a privacy threat, say experts </a> (Scroll.in; March 19, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/governance-now-march-23-2015-ankita-lahiri-internet-becomes-vernacular-with-relaunch-of-e-bhasha"> Internet becomes vernacular with relaunch of e-bhasha </a> (Ankita Lahiri; Governance Now; March 23, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/wall-street-journal-niharika-mandhana-march-24-2015-indian-supreme-court-overturns-law-barring-hate-speech-online"> Indian Supreme Court Overturns Law Barring 'Offensive Messages' Online </a> (Niharika Mandhana; Wall Street Journal; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/huffington-post-indrani-basu-betwa-sharma-march-24-2015-supreme-court-strikes-down-section-66a-of-it-act"> Supreme Court Strikes Down Section 66A Of IT Act </a> (Indrani Basu and Betwa Sharma; Huffington Post; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bbc-march-24-2015-indias-section-66-a-scrapped"> India's section 66A scrapped: Win for free speech </a> (Prasanto K. Roy; BBC; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/voice-of-america-march-24-2015-anjana-pascricha-indias-online-freedom-advocates-hail-court-ruling-on-free-speech"> India's Online Freedom Advocates Hail Court Ruling on Free Speech </a> (Anjana Pasricha; Voice of America; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-24-2015-live-chat-win-for-free-speech">Live Chat: Win for Free Speech</a> (Hindu; March 24, 2015). Geetha Hariharan participated in the live chat. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/washington-post-annie-gowen-march-24-2015-indias-sc-strikes-down-law-that-led-to-fb-arrests"> India's Supreme Court strikes down law that led to Facebook arrests </a> (Annie Gowen; Washington Post; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/new-indian-express-march-25-2015-parina-dhilla-netizens-rejoice-over-sc-ruling-to-keep-the-net-free"> Netizens Rejoice Over SC Ruling to Keep the Net Free </a> (Parina Dhilla; New Indian Express; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-25-2015-a-safe-internet-and-a-free-internet-can-co-exist"> 'A safe Internet and a free Internet can co-exist' </a> (Hindu; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/bloomberg-bna-march-25-2015-madhur-singh-india-high-court-no-takedown-requests-on-social-sites-without-court-govt-order"> India High Court: No Takedown Requests On Social Sites Without Court, Gov't Order </a> (Madhur Singh; Bloomberg BNA; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-star-march-25-2015-annie-gowen-indias-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-that-led-to-arrests-over-facebook-posts"> India's Supreme Court strikes down law that led to arrests over Facebook posts </a> (Annie Gowen; Star.com; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-hindu-march-25-2015-what-the-experts-said-on-live-chat"> What the experts said on live chat </a> (Hindu; March 25, 2015). Geetha Hariharan was one of the panelists. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/ndtv-nida-najar-and-suhasini-raj-march-25-2015-indian-court-strikes-down-section-of-law-punishing-offensive-posts"> Indian Court Strikes Down Section of Law Punishing Offensive Posts </a> (Nida Najar and Suhasini Raj; NDTV; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cio-in-march-25-2015-it-leaders%2C-lawyers-welcome-sc-ruling-on-66a-of-the-it-act"> IT Leaders, Lawyers Welcome SC Ruling on 66A of the IT Act </a> (Cio.in; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/hindustan-times-march-25-2015-vishakha-saxena-i-dare-you-i-double-dare-you"> I dare you, I double dare you: Social media celebrates Sec 66A verdict </a> (Vishakha Saxena; Hindustan Times; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/boston-globe-march-25-2015-annie-gowen-ruling-in-india-shields-web-posts"> Ruling in India shields Web posts </a> (Originally published by Washington Post and mirrored in Boston Globe; March 25, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/digital-news-asia-gabey-goh-march-26-2015-noose-tightens-on-freedom-of-speech-on-internet"> The noose tightens on freedom of speech on the Internet </a> (Gabey Goh; Digital New Asia; March 26, 2015). This was also mirrored in Malaymail Online. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/open-magazine-march-27-2015-kumar-anshuman-section-66a-delete">SECTION 66A: DELETE</a> (Kumar Anshuman; Open Magazine; March 27, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/livemint-dhamini-ratnam-march-28-2015-sc-has-set-a-high-threshold-for-tolerance"> SC has set a high threshold for tolerance: Lawrence Liang </a> (Dhamini Ratnam; Livemint; March 28, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-week-march-28-2015-soni-mishra-66a-dead-long-live-66a">66A DEAD. LONG LIVE 66A!</a> (Soni Mishra; The Week; March 28, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/cpj-march-28-2015-sumit-galhotra-indias-landmark-online-speech-ruling-is-step-toward-greater-press-freedom"> India's landmark online speech ruling is step toward greater press freedom </a> (Sumit Galhotra; CPJ; March 28, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/times-of-india-march-30-2015-kim-arora-you-can-still-get-into-trouble-for-online-posts"> You can still get into trouble for online posts: Digital law experts </a> (Kim Arora; The Times of India; March 30, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/the-citizen-march-31-2015-marianne-de-nazareth-smack-the-trolls">'Smack' the Trolls!</a> (Marianne De Nazareth; Citizen; March 31, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">-------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw">Researchers at Work</a> <br /> -------------------------------- <br /> The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme is an interdisciplinary research initiative driven by contemporary concerns to understand the reconfigurations of social practices and structures through the Internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa. It is interested in producing local and contextual accounts of interactions, negotiations, and resolutions between the Internet, and socio-material and geo-political processes:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Announcements</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/call-for-essays-studying-internet-in-india">Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India</a> : CIS is inviting abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today, the many experiences of Internet(s) in India; its histories and archaeologies; how we use it to read, write, create, relate, learn, and share. Please send abstracts (200 words) to <a href="mailto:raw@cis-india.org">raw@cis-india.org</a>. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/announcing-silicon-plateau-01">Announcing Silicon Plateau #01</a> : The RAW programme is supporting a new collaborative publishing project led by T.A.J. Residency / SKE Projects and or-bits.com. The first volume of the series titled 'Silicon Plateau' will feature contributions by a group of artists, researchers, and writers, including IOCOSE, Tara Kelton, Anil Menon, Sunita Prasad, Achal Prabhala and Sreshta Rit Premnath, along with contextual writing and documentation material. Here is an excerpt from the editorial note written by Marialaura Ghidini, the co-editor of the volume. </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/whose-open-data-community-is-it-abstract">Whose Open Data Community is it? - Accepted Abstract</a> (Sumandro Chattapadhyay; March 31, 2015). The paper 'Whose Open Data Community is it? Reflections on the Open Data Ecosystem in India' has been accepted for presentation at the Open Data Research Symposium to be held during the <a href="http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/erik-waddell/2015/02/02/3rd-international-open-data-conference-iodc"> 3rd International Open Data Conference </a> in Ottawa, Canada, on May 28-29 2015. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Event Organized</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/digital-activism-in-asia-reader-announcement">Digital Activism in Asia Reader</a> (Organized by CIS; Bangalore; March 6-7, 2015). The project is a collaborative effort of CIS and the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Germany, which aims to bring together local knowledge, debates and conversations around Digital Activism in Asia. The Digital Activism in Asia Reader is expected to be published by the <a href="http://cdc.leuphana.com/structure/hybrid-publishing-lab/" target="_blank">Hybrid Publishing Lab</a> in mid-2015. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entries</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/figures-of-learning-the-reader">Figures of Learning: The Reader</a> (P.P.Sneha; March 24, 2015). </li>
<li> <a href="http://cis-india.org/raw/civil-society-organisations-and-internet-governance-in-asia-and-india-outlines"> Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia and India - Section Outlines </a> : CIS has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001-2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">-------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom">Telecom</a> <br /> -------------------------------- <br /> CIS is involved in promoting access and accessibility to telecommunications services and resources and has provided inputs to ongoing policy discussions and consultation papers published by TRAI. It has prepared reports on unlicensed spectrum and accessibility of mobile phones for persons with disabilities and also works with the USOF to include funding projects for persons with disabilities in its mandate:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Op-ed</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/business-standard-opinion-article-shyam-ponappa-march-4-2015-railway-takeaways-for-digital-india"><b> </b>Railway Takeaways for Digital India </a> (Shyam Ponappa; Business Standard and Organizing India Blogspot; March 4, 2015). </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Blog Entry</b></p>
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<li><b> </b><a href="http://cis-india.org/telecom/blog/trai-ing-times-the-story-so-far">TRAI-ing Times: The Story So Far</a> (Tarun Krishnakumar; March 19, 2015). </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">--------------------------------- <br /> <a href="http://cis-india.org/">About CIS</a> <br /> --------------------------------- <br /> The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at sunil@cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language Wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at <a href="mailto:vishnu@cis-india.org">vishnu@cis-india.org</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i> CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various projects. </i></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/march-bulletin-2015'>http://editors.cis-india.org/about/newsletters/march-bulletin-2015</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaInternet GovernanceResearchers at WorkAccessibilityAccess to Knowledge2015-05-12T01:36:18ZPageReport on the Progress in Manipuri Language Testing
http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-manipuri-language-testing
<b>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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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Manipuri was added to e-Speak under this project. The language was refined to complete the basic support with the help of the language tester from Imphal, Manipur. Our team had visited Imphal, Manipur to work with the language tester on December 22, 2014. The following changes were made in Manipuri language:</p>
<ul>
<li>Entire number dictionary was introduced and modified.</li>
<li>Specific pronunciation for 100 to 900 was added.</li>
<li>All alphabets were modified as per acceptable pronunciation.</li>
<li>Pronunciation of consonants was corrected.</li>
<li>Rules for consonants at the beginning without diacritical mark were added and corrected.</li>
<li>One word as example (fOl – fruit) was added as exception for /fO/ at the beginning.</li>
<li>Modification of nasal, sound generated bu /uNgo was done.</li>
<li>Modification of pronunciation of words with birsorga was done.</li>
<li>Modification of pronunciation for words ending / using /khandat-ta done. Was made.</li>
<li>Pronunciation of joint alphabet like "khio", "ra" done. Was added.</li>
</ul>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-manipuri-language-testing'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-progress-in-manipuri-language-testing</a>
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No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-05-10T09:38:57ZBlog EntryReport on eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA Training Workshop at Tiruchirappalli
http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-at-tiruchirappalli
<b>The training workshop was held from May 4 to 8, 2015 at Centre for Differently-abled Persons, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. Seventeen delegates attended the workshop. </b>
<h3>Inauguration</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA Training workshop planned for 5 days (4th May 2015 to 8th May 2015) extensively for visually challenged college students and teachers was inaugurated on 4th May 2015 morning by respected Dr. M. Ravichandran, Registrar (In charge), Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. Dr. R. Mangaleswaran, Syndicate Member, Bharathidasan University felicitated with august presence and speech. Mr. S. Shankar Subbiah, Assistive Technology Consultant and representative of National Association for Blind, New Delhi and The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, and the sponsors for workshop gave a talk on the purpose of the Workshop and need for Tamil computing among the visually challenged in the present educational and employment context. Dr. M. Prabhavathy, Asst. Professor and Centre Head gave the Welcome address and Vote of thanks, thanking the Guests for their interests on empowerment of visually challenged and the participants for their earnest efforts to get trained on new technologies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The well-equipped and accessible ICT lab of the Centre for Differently Abled Persons, at Kajamalai Campus, Bharathidasan University served as the venue for training. In order to facilitate the participants with more concentrated and time efforts, High Tea and Lunch were also served for the Training days at the Centre. Volunteers with Computer Science background were there to assist the Trainees and served them enthusiastically. The participant trainees were from Tiruchirappalli district and nearby districts like Karur, Pudukottai and Thanjavur of Tamilnadu state.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The workshop began with Resource persons, Mr. K. Navarasan, Mr. S. Shankar Subbiah and Mr. G. Kumaresan, Assistive Technology Expert continuing with the training activities on their expertise areas. The below were the activities conducted during the training period.</p>
<p><b>Day 1 - 04/05/2015</b></p>
<p>Forenoon</p>
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<li>The whole group of Trainees were divided into two groups based on their previous knowledge on computer.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The former group consisted of the persons who were beginners to computers and the latter consisted of the trainees who have previous knowledge on computers.</li>
<li>A general overview on keyboard and its layout was introduced to the trainees to ensure readiness among the beginner trainees by the Resource person.</li>
<li>The keyboard layout and key mapping for alphabets, numeric, special keys and functional keys were taught to the trainees.</li>
<li>For those with previous knowledge exercises were given for reading, writing in English using computers with newspaper content, answer to question kind of comprehensive paragraphs with the Resource persons and volunteers coordinating.</li>
</ul>
<p>Afternoon</p>
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<li>The beginner trainees typed the keys that were taught on the previous session and practiced simple words dictated the Resource person and volunteers assisted on difficulties.</li>
<li>For those with previous knowledge, the exercises were elaborated and assessed for their readiness.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Day 2 - 05/05/2015</b><br />Forenoon</p>
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<li>Tamil keyboard layout of Microsoft Windows for default Unicode Tamil Font typing were introduced to the trainees by the Resource person.</li>
<li>The whole group of Trainees were trained to identify the keys for vowels and consonants of Tamil language, type and practice by themselves with the volunteers supporting them, when they had difficulties.</li>
</ul>
<p>Afternoon</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Trainees were trained to identify the keys for combinations, type and practice by themselves with the volunteers supporting them, when they had difficulties.</li>
<li>A play and learn session was organized to spell out connected words for typing practice.</li>
<li>To make the training workshop more live, the participants also were requested and exhibited their Tamil native talents and knowledge.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Day 3 - 06/05/2015</b><br />Forenoon</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Trainees were trained by giving large sets of two letter, three letter, and four letter units of words to type and practice. The Resource persons and volunteers corrected them when they had difficulties.</li>
<li>It was followed up by smaller sentences to be typed by the Trainees.</li>
</ul>
<p><br />Afternoon</p>
<ul>
<li>The trainees were made to listen to the Tamil text phrases with the help of NVDA screen-reader supported by eSpeak voice</li>
<li>The trainees were suggested to type out the phrases listened on a separate document</li>
<li>The trainees were trained on file operations like folder creation, saving to required folder and retrieval of the particular file. Similarly, for navigating, opening the file saved and continuing editing</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Day 4 - 07/05/2015</b><br />Forenoon</p>
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<li>Introduction on DAISY books and knowledge sharing on the available resources to read a DAISY book was done.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Demonstration on using Android based tablets and mobile phones to access the Tamil DAISY books given to the Trainees using Bookshare.org. The Trainees were also given information to subscribe for Bookshare membership and Book search and retrieval.</li>
</ul>
<p>Afternoon</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">As a reinforcement on the learning process, a Quiz Programme was conducted to the Trainees on Microsoft Tamil layout and key strokes required for different Tamil words, phrases.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Usage of Tamil in Internet, and the browsers supporting the Unicode formatted content and the NVDA development efforts to support Internet browsing was discussed.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Day 5 - 07/05/2015</b><br />Forenoon</p>
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<li>The Trainees were provided with Tamil HTML content to use the NVDA navigation commands to read the content and practice.</li>
<li>Reading content received in Email, Copying content from Browsers and pasting on Word document were taught and practiced.</li>
</ul>
<p>Afternoon</p>
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<li style="text-align: justify; ">Oral as well as Typing Assessment for Tamil keyboard layout, key strokes, words and phrases typing, file and folder operations of a document were conducted for the Trainees to ensure the training and learning process have helped them.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">The Resource persons and volunteers ensured that they have learned the intended content and were confident to move ahead in Tamil computing using NVDA and eSpeak</li>
</ul>
<h3>The Valedictory Function</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The eSpeak Tamil Computing with NVDA Training workshop conducted for 5 days (4th May 2015 to 8th May 2015) had the Valedictory function presided by Prof. V.M. Muthukumar, Hon. Vice Chancellor, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli who delivered the valedictory address and got the feedback from the participants in the presence of Dr. D. Muthuramakrishnan,, Syndicate Member, Bharathidasan University who felicitated the gathering. Vote of thanks to CIS, NAB and the organizers was given by Dr. M. Prabhavathy, Asst. Professor and Centre Head and the training felt much useful ended up with the National Anthem.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>Feedback</b><br />Mr. K. Nallusami, Government School Teacher, and Mr. R. Jeyaraj, Student from Bishop College gave the feedback, how the training was helpful and would be useful by implementing Tamil computing in their daily occupation. They also highlighted on the materials and useful tips by Resource persons while working with NVDA in MS Word, Internet using Tamil computing given and learned in the training workshop.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Mrs. J. Sumathi, a Teacher who was not knowing Computer previously explained how the Volunteers and Resource persons helped learn from basic Keyboard mapping to Tamil Typing and it was a kind of magic happening to her and sister. They both came 100 miles away from Tiruchirappalli and stayed with their relatives for training. But, really happy to spent these days’ worth getting trained and requested the Organizers to conduct more such trainings for other Teachers of their District too.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-at-tiruchirappalli'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-espeak-tamil-computing-with-nvda-at-tiruchirappalli</a>
</p>
No publishernirmitaAccessibility2015-07-21T01:32:10ZBlog EntryInclusive Financial Services - Global Trends in Accessibility Requirements
http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services-global-trends-in-accessibility-requirements
<b>Inclusive Financial Services is a G3ict White Paper researched in cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society. The research paper comprises a Foreword and Introduction, four chapters — Barriers to Access for Persons with Disabilities and Diverse Abilities, International Framework, Integrating Accessibility into the System, and State of Practice - Impact of the Convention on Inclusive Finance and Accessibility Efforts around the Globe.</b>
<h2>Foreword</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Global demand for accessibility continues to grow, due in part to the strengthening voice worldwide of more than one billion people with disabilities, including the aging population, and important frameworks, such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. From a private sector standpoint, the Convention represents a unique opportunity to ensure equal access to information while achieving global harmonization of standards and economies of scale. Understanding that technology is the great equalizer for underserved populations and having a clear roadmap towards inclusive information and communications technologies (ICT), rather than simple compliance strategies, will benefit everyone in every industry.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Specifically, the financial services sector is faced with the need to transform operations while providing truly exceptional customer experiences. Disruptive trends -- such as the aging population, influx of mobile devices and global regulations – are driving demand for more human-centric technology, and creating an opportunity for innovation that are proving to be differentiators for the institutions embracing them. Consumer demand to be in control of interactions and information is forcing those in financial services to reconsider what’s important to stay competitive. By offering an online experience through any device personalized to individual needs, preferences and abilities, organizations can ensure they are reaching the broadest base of the population, especially the “unbanked” and “underbanked,” to enhance interactions and improve sales opportunities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Customers with lifelong disabilities or age-related impairments represent an increasingly large population among the biggest markets in the world such as OECD countries and China. Also, in many countries aging persons are the holders of a majority of the assets and highly dependent on insurance, retirement and banking services. Ensuring they can use the services they need without encountering accessibility barriers is a powerful way to earn their loyalty in a highly competitive environment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">IBM has a long tradition and culture of accessibility and understands the importance of improving the user experience, managing accessibility compliance, and creating an inclusive workplace environment. Consistent with our own experience, this report highlights the organizational and process adjustments needed to ensure everyone has equal access to timely information they need for work and life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">By creating a holistic strategy for embedding accessible technology across the entire enterprise - from processes to product development to people – organizations can reinvigorate individual channels and harmonize them across the bank. G3ict has written this timely publication for the financial services sector that provides a clear picture of the global forces at work that are transforming how employee- and client-facing applications, products and services are delivered to reach the broadest set of customers. The report also serves as a useful benchmarking source for governments and advocates based on its review of existing solutions already implemented around the world. We applaud G3ict for taking this first step on the road of advocating for greater accessibility of financial services in cooperation with stakeholders from around the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ian Hurst, General Manager, Global Financial Services Sector, IBM Corporation<br />Frances W. West, Chief Accessibility Officer, IBM Corporation</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Introduction</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Financial services play a necessary and important role in societies by enabling access to products, resources, and services, enabling savings and asset creation, and facilitating economic self-sufficiency. Access to financial services for all is a necessity in today’s world not simply at the community or household level, but at an individual level, to open doors to banking services, credit services, stocks and shares, insurance, and other markets. Access to and inclusion in financial services is crucial to poverty reduction and participation in economic prosperity and growth and development.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The increasing pervasiveness of technology in the delivery of financial services and the disruption of traditional channels of delivery through ‘FinTech’ (technology for financial service delivery) have generated new enthusiasm and newer ways for reaching out to persons who remain unbanked. Similarly, the increasing nature of services now available through technology has triggered growing demand among persons who remained marginalized from traditional paper-based banking services, as well as calls to ensure that they do not in turn create new barriers to access. Accompanying this growth spurt in technology there has also been an increasing recognition of the rights of persons with disabilities and the utmost importance of providing equal access to them to all services, including financial services.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Persons with disabilities and diverse abilities have been amongst those traditionally marginalized from the financial services sector through a mix of inaccessibility, presumptions of limited need and capacity to manage finances, and mindsets that did not view them as a profitable consumer base. This paradigm is now rapidly changing with growing evidence of their demand and need for access to services as well as the increasing income base of persons with disabilities around the world. Persons with disabilities and diverse abilities are demanding better and easier access to the entire range of financial services. Access to and inclusion in financial services is important to persons across the economic spectrum. And for persons with disabilities who live under the poverty line, it is essential that they are involved in financial inclusion initiatives and programs that will empower them and enable them to become financially independent.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">A range of factors are serving as drivers to enhance the inclusion of persons with disabilities and diverse abilities through accessible financial services including demographics, attaining a competitive advantage and improving market share nationally and globally, Corporate Social Responsibility, regulations, legislation and compliance, enhancing business value, ensuring and increasing an inclusive workplace for employees with disabilities, maximizing on technology advances, and ensuring diversity and inclusion for all.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This report offers an introduction and overview to the need for, and mechanisms to achieve accessibility in financial services:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Chapter 1 offers an understanding of the barriers posed by inaccessible financial services to persons with different disabilities.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Chapter 2 highlights the different international mandates and frameworks that are accelerating the promotion of financial inclusion for persons with disabilities.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Chapter 3 offers in-depth descriptions of the accessibility needs based on the type of technology in use, along with examples of effective practices and solutions to promote inclusion. It also offers a look at how different countries are striving to achieve the accessibility mandate.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Chapter 4 focuses on the state of practice of financial inclusion for persons with disabilities across countries and the implementation of the Convention’s requirements for ICT accessibility and financial inclusion. This chapter describes findings from two major studies undertaken by G3ict that paint a picture of the state of financial accessibility today and offer a glimpse into the financial sector’s commitment to incorporate accessibility into their work and services in the future.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Finally, in the Conclusions section, the report offers recommendations for relevant stakeholders to incorporate the principles of inclusion to drive accessibility through product design and delivery, policy and legal structures, and distribution channels and pathways.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services.pdf" class="internal-link"><b>Download the report</b></a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services-global-trends-in-accessibility-requirements'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services-global-trends-in-accessibility-requirements</a>
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No publishernirmitaFeaturedHomepageAccessibility2015-05-03T06:55:49ZBlog EntryInclusive Financial Services
http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services.pdf
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services.pdf'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/inclusive-financial-services.pdf</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccessibility2015-05-03T01:55:21ZFileReport on 15 days Training in Basic Computing with use of NVDA and eSpeak in Oriya
http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-and-e-speak-in-oriya
<b>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.</b>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Newspaper Report</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Post News Network</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Bhubaneswar, April 16: Several visually impaired citizens living in the state Thursday got a reason to celebrate. The Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped (VRCH), an outfit of the Central government, launched a training programme on the day for a bunch of men and women suffering from visual imparity. They would be imparted training on e-learning software, which can assist them in getting acquainted with the different aspects of computer operations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The 15-day e-learning programme witnessed coming together of several physically challenged citizens of diverse age groups, from different parts of the state. The training is being provided by the government unit free of cost. The software, which will help the blind read texts on a computer, is known as Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA). It helps in bridging the chasm between die visually impaired people and the technology It facilitates communication between them through a» audio device. The software reads out text on the screen to the differently able, who are unable to read screen texts due to vision difficulties.<br />“Although the software came into existence in 2006 but it gained popularity slowly. The main advantage of this software is its diversity. It has now inculcated several other Indian languages, including Oriya into it. So now people from different ethnic groups can access texts in their mother tongue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Moreover, the software is free for its users and can be downloaded easily from the Internet. Users of this software can now read computer files, use social networking sites and can even read all available resources on cyberspace,” said Mrutunjay Kumar, Member of All India Association for Blind who will impart teaching on the software to the blind students. Kumar himself suffers from visual imparity. Similar e-learning software, however, already existed to help the blind people use computers, but its high annual subscription amount and limited language options narrowed the usage of such software.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">NVDA being subscription free and diverse is expected to cater to the larger interests of the visually impaired citizens of the state and the country Pokhariput-based VRCH on whose campus the training programme is being held was overwhelmed by the response it garnered from the public. Officials of the institution also assured all possible support for the participants. “The main aim of the training-programme is to give them a platform to strengthen their skills. The whole programme is totally free. No participation fees will be levied on the trainees. Moreover, special arrangements have been made for free accommodation and food for the trainees so that they can focus only on training,” said Ram Kishore Sharma, assistant director, VRCH.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Earlier in the day, many outgoing trainees, who completed some skill development training at the institution, were felicitated by the institution. Ashok Behera, deputy director, State Directorate of Welfare of Persons with Disabilities, was present during the occasion as chief guest and felicitated several students who had successfully completed their training at the institution.</p>
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<p>Venue: Institute of Social Work and Research, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.<br />Dates: 16th – 29th April 2015<br />No. of Participants: 30<br />Trainer: Mritunjay Kumar.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-and-e-speak-in-oriya'>http://editors.cis-india.org/accessibility/blog/report-on-training-in-basic-computing-with-use-of-nvda-and-e-speak-in-oriya</a>
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