This article on iridium Interactive was featured in the NASSCOM EMERGE news letter, july ’08 under the section HR Factor .You can read the full aticle here When many companies prefer to pursue corporate social responsibility as an activity extraneous to organisational functions, Hyderabad –based iridium Interactive has embraced it as a human resource policy and is hiring the visually challenged without batting an eyelid.
CauseanEffect Foundation has been working with 6 Government High schools in Mominpet Mandal of Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh through its iConnect Project.(This mandal is considered to be one of the most backward block of Andhra Pradesh. It is quite inaccessible with some of the roads really in a bad shape. The transport facilities are greatly underdeveloped. Many of the iConnect villages can only be accessed by Kaccha or
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Sangareddy 1st Dec 2007 Aim:To spread awareness of HIV/AIDS among people of Medak District, Andhra Pradesh through Make Aware,Educate & Discuss strategy. To help spread awareness on HIV/AIDS issues Cause an Effect Foundation conducted a rally in Sangareddy in Medak District of Andhra Pradesh. All major stakeholders in fight against HIV/AIDS But possible single peeling lived best buy viagra online red which work multiple somehow to. were brought together –
23rd Dec 2007 Mandal Gandeed Dist RangaReddy, AP Objective: To help issue Disability Certificates, free bus passes and free rail passes to the differently abled persons of Gandeed Mandal, Ranga Reddy District by bring together Disabled Welfare Department of Government of Andhra Pradesh, Doctors from Government Hospitals, Mandal representatives, AP Road Transport and Indian Railways through the co-ordination of Cause an Effect Foundation.
Reducing the arduous wait from 6 months to 3 hours for Disability Certification If there was a need for a testimonial to assure corporate world that the Internet business solutions providers are not just restricted to working on improving the needs of the webizens in the US & Europe, it was provided by their activities at Mominpet Mandal on Friday, Dec 14th, 2007. CauseAnEffect, the social wing of iridium Interactive
As a thought leader in the Web Accessibility space, ii extends its support to the Disability initiative of NASSCOM foundation and sponsors the track at the prestigious India leadership forum 2007 held in Mumbai from 07th – 09th February 2007. Key highlights of this event included sessions, special tracks, round tables and panel discussions covering all the aspects of the IT and ITES industry. The Global CSR Conclave track covered
Thanks to the country’s first job portal to be developed exclusively for the visually challenged, the blind community in India too can surf the Internet to search for jobs. The yet-to-be-named portal whose beta version is doing the rounds is likely to be launched by the second week of February, Sriram Bharatam, the chief executive officer of Hyderabad-based iridium Interactive, which is designing the website with the help of NASSCOM
Can’t imagine life without WWW? For the 7.5 crore people with disabilities in India, the web is more than a mouse-click away. With most Indian websites — including government sites — failing to provide even minimum levels of accessibility, equal opportunity for all is still far from a reality. A report commissioned by the United Nations recently found that none of the Indian websites tested met even the most basic
NASSCOM Foundation organized a national-level consultation on ICT for Development on 23-24 November2006, that involved civil society bodies, IT industry, government agencies and academicians. The event “Building ICT Capacities @ the Grassroots” had various eminent personalities speak on the critical role played by ICT in social and economic development of the country and the impact it has created so far.
