---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Happy Home & School for the Blind <m...@happyhomeschoolfortheblind.org > Date: Mar 17, 2009 4:03 PM Subject: fw: International Seminar on Empowering Visually Impaired through ICT during April 15-16, 2009 at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Information Technology, Amethi To: jati...@gmail.com
------------------------------ *From*: "Dr. Kamlesh.N Agarwala" <agarwa...@iiita.ac.in> *Sent*: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:23 AM *To*: m...@happyhomeschoolfortheblind.org *Subject*: International Seminar on Empowering Visually Impaired through ICT during April 15-16, 2009 at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Information Technology, Amethi Dear Mr. Banaji, I am pleased to inform you that the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad is organizing an International Seminar on 'Empowering Visually Impaired through ICT' from April 15 to April 16, 2009 at its campus Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Information Technology [RGIIT] Tikarmafi Amethi. This is a follow up of the National Seminar on Empowering Differently Abled through ICT that the Institute organized in New Delhi in February 2008. Focus of this Seminar will be on employment of ICT solutions in four areas that will make significant contribution in improving the quality of lives of visually impaired individuals: - To use ICT tools in prevention, timely identification and intervention of visual impairment, such as: Tele-ophthalmology is an emerging solution in India and globally. - To discus about ICT solutions that will empower visually impaired to access information in the digital world. - To deliberate on the emerging trends in adaptive technologies. - To discuss how ICT can be used to deal with the social issues. As an outcome of the February 2008 Seminar, the Institute has planned to establish a Center of Excellence for Empowering Differently Abled through ICT [CDAP-ICT] at Allahabad. The deliberations of present Seminar will add on other component to find ICT based solutions to the issues under considerations. The details of the Seminar have been published on the website www.seminarevip.iiita.ac.in. We will be publishing the presentations made in the Seminar on the website. I welcome your participation in this initiative of the Institute. I would appreciate if you will circulate this to your friends and associates who may be interested in participating in the deliberations of this Seminar. With my personal regards, Dr. Kamlesh N Agarwala Professor Indian Institute of Information TEchnology, Allahabad
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