This is moving --- a number of my colleagues from the University of Central Lancashire and University of Liverpool are thinking of setting up a Visually Impaired Persons Commons. Thanks for sending this email Joseph Savirimuthu
Liverpool Law School [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://savirimuthu.typepad.com In a message dated 16/06/2005 19:39:13 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) : DISABILITIES: BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT : COMPUTER: TRAINING : COUNTRIES: NEPAL: Blind and Visually Impaired Youth Introduced to ICT at Nepal CMC United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization WebWorld: Communication and Information News Blind and Visually Impaired Youth Introduced to ICT at Nepal CMC 15-06-2005 (UNESCO New Delhi) <http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php -URL_ID=19309&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://snipurl.com/fmn6> Lumbini Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) has recently organized a one-day orientation programme for blind and visually-impaired students of Shri Shanti Model Secondary School in Manigram, a village in Western Nepal. Shri Shanti local government school has about 850 students twenty-eight of which are either blind or visually impaired. For me, the computer was entirely new. I had never used it before. The centre here not only gave me an opportunity to know about ICT, but also arranged training for me and other students, said an excited Kamal Tharu. Kamal is a visually impaired student in class nine of Shri Shanti School, who has participated, together with seven other students, in the ICT orientation organized by Lumbini CMC. The inspiration for the training was a visit to the CMC by two visually impaired students. Sagar Subedi, one of them, had taken part in a training workshop on a text-to-speech software called JAWS. When he heard that the Lumbini CMC had also obtained the software, he and a friend came to investigate. The JAWS software literally reads text from computer documents, including Internet websites and e-mails. Blind and visually-impaired students attend classes along with other students. They come from as far as Gulmi, Chitwan, Parbath and Agrakashi (all neighboring districts). The recent one-day training by CMC has increased their desire to learn about basic computing and Internet, reports Krishna KC, Shri Shantis resource teacher for disabled and Lumbinis chief radio technician. ---------------------------------------- The complete article may be read at the URL above. Also of possible interest are these recent Net-Gold posts. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:21 am Subject: UNITED KINGDOM: GOVERNMENT: NEWS: PORTAL: eGov Monitor <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/6622> From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:38 am Subject: DATABASES: CITED REFERENCE INDEXING : DATABASE: SEARCH: ISSUES : ARTICLE: Peter's Digital Reference Shelf - June: Google Scholar (Redux) <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/6621> From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:32 pm Subject: MICROSOFT: SOFTWARE : COMPUTER: SECURITY : INTERNET: SECURITY: How to Design an Updated Patchwork Quilt <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/6614> From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:08 am Subject: Re: REFERENCE: DICTIONARIES: Your Dictionary.com <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/6609> Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> World Business Community Advisor <http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
