NEWS & EVENTS

VE accepted as Primary member, Daisy Forum of India (DFI)

Vision Empower has been accepted as a Primary member of the Daisy Forum of India (DFI). On Saturday, 19th of September, Supriya was invited to present at the AGM of the DFI on the activities of VE and especially Subodha and its utility. The presentation was well received. VE joins this consortium to work alongside the members on various interventions to make accessible content for persons with visual impairment, especially in India.

Visionary Ideathon

Visionary Ideathon is a 3-day event from 27th - 30th August by Project Sitara Foundation in collaboration with Vision Empower Trust. It is an opportunity for you to contribute towards science education for the visually impaired children of class 10 across India

Case Study : Bridging digital divides: A framework for digital cooperation.

Vision Empower is covered as one of the case studies in Chap 3: Bridging digital divides: A framework for digital cooperation.

ICTD 2020 : Paper presentation

Jun 17, 2020

The paper "Conceptual Learning through Accessible Play: Project Torino and Computational Thinking for Blind Children in India", co-authoured by Gesu India, Microsoft Research India, Geetha Ramakrishna, Vision Empower, Joyojeet Pal, Microsoft Research India and Swami Manohar, Microsoft Research India, was presented at ICTD 2020 (Paper Session 4.1)

Special Recognition Award. : Innopreneurs Startup Contest 2020

Feb 1-2 2020

Vision Empower was one of the 7 finalists out of 53 teams selected at the 5th edition of the Innopreneurs Startup Contest 2020 held on Feb 1 and 2 2020 at Indore.
Vision Empower presented Hexis – the refreshable Braille book reader and was awarded the Special Recognition Award.

Forbes India: When the blind lead the blind, to success

February 2020

Visually impaired entrepreneurs are helping make science subjects more accessible to students like themselves.
Naini Thaker, Forbes India Staff reports

Pragya January 2020

January 28 - 29, 2020

A two day Teachers’ training workshop Pragya’2020 was organized by Vision Empower, in collaboration with Mathruchhaya- Canara Bank Relief &...
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Empower 2019

Empower 2019, a conference hosted by IIT Delhi in partnership with Microsoft Research, was an event that aimed to bring...
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DH Changemakers | A vision to empower

Jan 01, 2020

In 2017, as her classmates at the IIITB’s MSc in Digital Society showed job offers from tech majors, 24-year-old Vidhya...
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Inclusive-Stem Confluence 2020

January 17 - 18, 2020

The event is in third year running of its earlier Inclusive STEM Hackathon version. The hackathon was where blind and...
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Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019

November 18 - 20, 2019

During the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019, Vision Empower (VE) was given an opportunity to showcase Hexis in the IIITB pavilion.

Bangalore’s IIIT developing affordable Braille reader for students

The New Indian Express
Oct 9 2019

Presenting the Ludic Design Approach at the Samvaad Talk series at IIITB

September 23, 2019

Prof Amit Praskash, Supriya Dey and Aishwarya O presented the findings of the Ludic Design Approach. Watch the recording of the talk.

Anubhav 2019

September 20-21, 2019

Anubhav 2019 was designed based on information gathered over June 2018 – August 2019 from the VE school interventions which culminated in design of the 2 days of workshop on various learning activities.

Inclusive Learning for the Blind, Let’s Embrace the Growing Needs of Stem Education, Impacts on Inclusion and Social Integration

September 14, 2019.

Vidhya and Supriya were speakers in a panel Discussion on “Inclusive Learning for the Blind, Let’s Embrace the Growing Needs of Stem Education, Impacts on Inclusion and Social Integration” at the SayEverything Convention 2019, jointly organised by SayEverything Group and Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled

Making STEM accessible with the aid of Geometry Boxes

September 2, 2019

Vision Empower is sincerely grateful to Mr. Balaji Varadarajan for contributing to this endeavour of making STEM accessible, by donating geometry boxes to all the schools using funds he has earned for his contribution as a Programming language trainer for visually impaired persons.

Science to be easily accessible to visually impaired school children

Times of India. Aug 5, 2019

In what could be a boost in Science education for the visually impaired, the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) has developed a technology to help generate tactile images of diagrams in Science textbooks faster.

MoU with Enability Foundation

August 6, 2019

VE and Enability Foundation incubated at IIT Madras signed an MoU on 6th of August 2019 to collaborate on creation...
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MoU with Matruchhaya

August 5, 2019

Vision Empower signed an MoU with Matruchhaya to Create Braille books for Mathematics and Science for visually impaired students at...
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Pragya 2019 Teacher Trainings

Vision Empower organized the Pragya 2019 Teacher Trainings in collaboration with Canara Bank Relief and Welfare Association (Matruchhaya) from 26th...
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I for Inclusion

I for Inclusion was organized by Vision Empower for its staff, researchers and volunteers on 20th May to 22nd May...
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019

Vision Empower took part in the “Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019” program arranged at IIIT Bangalore on 15th May 2019....
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Meeting @ The Office of the Director for Welfare of Differently Abled and Senior Citizens

Vision Empower addresses a gathering of teachers, government officials and NGOs at the Office of the Director for Welfare of...
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Workshop : Early Intervention and Access to Education at APD

March 19th, 2019

The workshop , “Early Intervention and Access to Education ” held at The Association Of People With Disability (APD) was...
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Challenges of VI persons Studying STEM

March 23, 2019

Vidhya spoke about the challenges of VI persons studying STEM , lessons from her personal journey and in an event...
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