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.
Media Lab Asia, a unit of the Indian Department of Information Technology, and the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), a federal body dealing with rehabilitation of the disabled, have jointly developed a portal for the differently-abled community in India named Punarbhava.in (For more information please visit www.punarbhava.in). This portal has been designed and developed by iridium Interactive, the leading ‘Fully Integrated Web Services Company’ in India. Punarbhava.in was launched today
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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
Media Lab Asia (MLAsia), a not-for-profit R&D organization, works on the paradigm of collaborative research in the task of developing relevant and sustainable technologies and culturally appropriate solutions and bringing them to the daily lives of people. The objective of the organization is to bring the benefits of ICT to the common man. ObjectiveThe aim of the Punarbhava (literally meaning ‘renewed being’) project was to build a comprehensive Internet portal
The Livelihood School is an academic institution promoted by BASIX group, a modern livelihood promotion institution. Livelihood involvements are conscious efforts by an organization to encourage livelihood opportunities for the masses, particularly the rural poor and women. Objective The primary goal of this school is to build a knowledge base on livelihoods and disseminate the same to livelihood practitioners, who will then promote a large number of livelihoods. The Livelihood
Actionaid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, it is helping over 13 million of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged people in 46 countries worldwide. Actionaid International (AAI) works with local partners in every region, ranging from small community support groups to national alliances and international networks. Objective With a highly decentralized mode of operations and over 2,000 local partner organizations
is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years it has been growing and expanding to where it is today – helping over 13 million of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged people in 46 countries worldwide. Actionaid international works with local partners in every region .The partners could range from small community support groups to national alliances and international networks.
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
