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The Seminar in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. There was a great article on the seminar in the major paper based in Chennai, The Hindu, entitled: Publishers urged to reach out to print-disabled population. More on him later as well.

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Going to South India

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The main reason is to attend the National Seminar on Print Access for All, being held at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The seminar has been organized by a steering committee led by N. The Seminar to be held on Saturday, the 19th April, 2008 at the Auditorium, ICSR Building, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger. This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities.

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Wrapping Up the 2007 Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The researchers got two days of focused seminars and content, while the practitioners and non-academic attendees were happily engaged in workshops and what I dubbed "master classes:" where Skoll Award winners would sit down and talk about their challenges. Most of the plenaries were focused on inspiration and building the field as a whole.

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Not Business As Usual!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re going to learn about “how to” and “what to” and “why not” in many different sessions, both in the seminar rooms and in the hallways. Ask them about it. Test it out. We’re going to hear from those people.

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