National Conference on
Enabling the differently abled with the use of ICT, 2008
at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Insight proudly presents the National Conference on Enabling the differently abled with the use of ICT, 2008. The conference is being held as part of the expansion of Insight’s activities into newer domains. The conference will explore possibilities of ICT in improving the lives of the differently abled on two fronts - provide Assistive solutions to the Mentally & Physically Challenged and find ways to equip the differently abled in seeking employment in the ICT sector.

Conference Date and Venue

3rd September, 2008 Wednesday at the Hotel Residency Towers.

Papers for the Conference

Dr. Arun Mehta on A Strategy for Educating the Mentally Challenged based on Free and Open Source technologies.

Gaurav Takkar, Media Lab Asia on Technologies developed for the Mentally Challenged by Media Lab Asia.

Swati Chakraborty of Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy (IICP) on Assistive technology to provide ICT training to the Cerebral Palsied.

K V Johny, CDAC Trivandrum on Research underway at CDAC for the mentally challenged.

Vijayachandran of Future India Foundation on the Field experience with the Differently Abled in Kerala and the potential of ICT in enabling the Differently Abled.

Sachin Verma of AccessAbility on Employment opportunities for the Differently Abled and the AccessAbility Experience.

Shanti Raghavan of Enable India on Capacity Development for the Differently Abled and the EnableIndia Experiece.

Krishna Kant Mane of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research on ICT carriers and employment methodology for visually challenged.

Sundar R on his experience in the ICT sector.

Binu Sankar of G-Tech on the Role of corporate sector in providing employment opportunities to the differently abled.

Conference Participants

- Representatives from IT companies in Trivandrum.
- Visually challenged students in schools and colleges.
- Parents and teachers of Differently Abled.