Dear all,
I am glad to inform you that.YPSA DAISY programme receivedISIF Asia
Award.please find the following information.
Best, vashkar
Innovation on learning and localization: Accessible reading materials for
grades 1-10 students with print disability through DAISY standard, Young
Power in Social Action (YPSA), Bangladesh- YPSA¹s project supports students
with print and learning disability, and low literacy by creating access to
DAISY full text and full audio digital books, Braille books and accessible
e- course books. Approximately four million Bangladeshis are visually
impaired, and around 48 per cent of the population is illiterate or low
literate. YPSA, along with the Prime Minister¹s Office, has produced DAISY
digital multimedia books for the student of years 1 to 5, which proved
accessible and cost effective. YPSA will now extend the range of textbooks
to cover the entire secondary level.
ISIF Asia Award Winners for 2014 announced
http://isif.asia/Awards2014
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The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia) Awards seek to
acknowledge the important contributions ICT innovators have made to their
communities, by addressing social and development challenges using the
Internet. The Awards recognize projects that have already been implemented,
or are in the final stages of implementation, and have been successful in
addressing their communities’ needs.
During the 2014 call for nominations, the program received 93 nominations
across the four categories from 16 economies in the Asia Pacific. Each
winner received a cash prize of AUD 3,000 to support the continuation of the
project or the organization conducting the activities and a travel grant for
a project representative to participate at the 9th Internet Governance Forum
(Istanbul, Turkey. 2-5 September 2014) to showcase their project, make new
professional contacts, and participate in discussions about the future of
the Internet. Meet the winners:
Rights: Sinar Project, Malaysia- Malaysia has very few publically available
resources of online information on governance, such as budget expenditure,
assets of those holding political office and parliamentary bills.
Information that is available is not in a usable format. Sinar uses open
source technology and applications to improve governance and encourage
greater citizen involvement in the public affairs of Malaysia.
Innovation on learning and localization: Accessible reading materials for
grades 1-10 students with print disability through DAISY standard, Young
Power in Social Action (YPSA), Bangladesh- YPSA¹s project supports students
with print and learning disability, and low literacy by creating access to
DAISY full text and full audio digital books, Braille books and accessible
e- course books. Approximately four million Bangladeshis are visually
impaired, and around 48 per cent of the population is illiterate or low
literate. YPSA, along with the Prime Minister¹s Office, has produced DAISY
digital multimedia books for the student of years 1 to 5, which proved
accessible and cost effective. YPSA will now extend the range of textbooks
to cover the entire secondary level.
Innovation on access provision: e-Action for Universal Healthcare Coverage,
ACCESS Health Philippines, Philippines- The project uses innovative mobile
technology to expand the capacity of the government’s frontline health
workers to deliver high quality, integrated maternal and child healthcare to
the poorest Filipino families. The eAKaP project provides mobile tablets and
trains CHTs to use an application called iCHT (automated Community Health
Team). A health worker can visit a household and use the tablet with iCHT
installed without the need for Internet connection. The household
information is then stored until an Internet connection is available, at
which time it can be uploaded to a cloud-based server that automatically
generates reports. The iCHT application has resulted in decreased spending
for materials and reduced time spent performing CHT related tasks. The eAKaP
Project has so far trained 100 health workers, covering approximately 5000
families.
Code for the common good: Connecting remote islands in Vanuatu with
LiteGateway Network Access System, Telsat Broadband Limited, Vanuatu- Telsat
Broadband has created a broadband Internet system that delivers quality
service at a very low cost to small remote island communities. The
LiteGateway NAS Appliance, which can scale from a small device supporting up
to 25 concurrent sessions through to a large server base supporting a major
town, is driven by code specifically created for this project. It allows for
easy and quick establishment of new POPs, and is capable of providing both
IPv4 and IPv6 to customers. Broadband Internet access is then available for
as little as US$2.00. Since the deployment of the platform in three
locations, interest has come from various aid agencies seeking to deploy the
cost-effective communications solution in their outer island projects.
In addition to the winners selected by the Selection Committee, the
community can have their say and vote for their favorite project,
independent of the selection process. The award winner for 2014 received
5782 valid online votes.
Community Choice Award: Sohoj Sonchoy - Easy Savings, Green Networking
Research Group, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of
Dhaka, Bangladesh- Android app Sohoj Sonchoy allows Bangladeshi
people‹particular vulnerable groups, including women, rural people, the
non-skilled and unemployed‹ to watch hands-on video tutorials online,
helping them to develop skills, learn new techniques and increase workplace
participation. The training videos‹all free, available in Bengali and using
free and open source technologies‹help people to learn critical skills such
as reading, writing, effective agricultural practices, machinery repair,
food preparation, simple first aid, personal finance and fire safety from
their smartphone or computer.
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