Overcoming wicked problems and institutional voids for social innovation: University-NGO partnerships in the Global South

Abstract: This paper argues that, while universities have a crucial role to play in social innovation by democratizing knowledge, fulfilling that role in the Global South requires them to partner with civil society actors such as NGOs. With their history of working with the socially disadvantaged, NGOs have a unique role in clarifying the nature of demand since social innovation must often address ill-formulated “wicked problems”.

Design of Programs for Students and Teachers with Visual Impairment in the Global South: A collaborative response to the COVID19 pandemic in Karnataka, India

Design of Programs for Students and Teachers with Visual Impairment in the Global South: A collaborative response to the COVID19 pandemic in Karnataka, India. This entry from Vision Empower was accepted for the CHI 2021 conference workshop on Disability design in low resource settings.

Accessible Computer Science Fall Workshop : White paper

Supriya from Vision Empower took part in the "Accessible Computer Science Fall Workshop" Nov 17, 2020 - Nov 19 2020 on "Using research to make Computer Science education accessible to all learners" organized by Microsoft, University of Washington, and University of Colorado, Boulder. The whitepaper, Reimagining Accessibility and Inclusion in K12 Computer Science Education Through Curriculum and Professional Development was an outcome of this workshop.

Addressing the new abnormal – COVID response for visually impaired teachers in schools for the blind

Article by Supriya for Samuhik Pahal, a Wipro Foundation newsletter : Addressing the new abnormal - COVID response for visually impaired teachers in schools for the blind

Assistive Technology Research and Disability Studies in the Global South: the Need for Synergy

Co-authored by Vidhya Y for a workshop at The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 View Publication

ICTD2020: Conceptual Learning through Accessible Play: Project Torino and Computational Thinking for Blind Children in India

Project Torino is a physical programming environment designed for teaching computational thinking to children in schools in the UK, regardless of the level of vision. We introduced project Torino to children in three schools for the blind in Bangalore, India as a toy for playing with songs, rhymes, and stories. We present the results of 103 semi-structured play sessions spread over three months with 12 children (2 girls, 10 boys) with diverse backgrounds.

ASSETS ’19: The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Computational Thinking as Play: Experiences of Children who are Blind or Low Vision in India

Gesu India (MSR India), Geetha Ramakrishna (Vision Empower), Jyoti Bisht (Vision Empower), Manohar Swaminathan (MSR India)

ICT Trends : United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT) created for inter-governmental organizations

ICT Trends: Chap 3. Assistive technologies
Amit Prakash, Angel Jeena, Apoorva Bhalla, Rajesh Hanbal, Sanjay V.P., Supriya Dey and Vidhya Y.

CodeTalk: Improving Programming Environment Accessibility for Visually Impaired Developers

By Venkatesh Potluri, Priyan Vaithilingam, Suresh Iyengar, Y. Vidya, Manohar Swaminathan, Gopal Srinivasa

“We can go anywhere”: Understanding independence through a case study of ride-hailing use by people with visual impairments in metropolitan India

By Kameswaran, Vaishnav, Robin Brewer, Tiffany C.E. Veinot, Jatin Gupta, Joyojeet Pal, Sile O'Modhrain, Aakanksha Parameshwar, Vidhya Y, an, et al

Creating an Accessible Technology Ecosystem for Learning Science and Math: A Case of Visually Impaired Children in Indian Schools

By Supriya Dey, Vidhya Y, Mounika Neerukonda, Suprgya Bhushan and Amit Prakash