Roulette enables visually impaired people to draw tactile diagrams on any paper – Newz Hook
October, 2020
Roulette opens a new world for blind and low vision students in terms of education and career opportunities. Read more
News & Updates
VE accepted as Primary member, Daisy Forum of India (DFI)
September, 2020
Vision Empower has been accepted as a Primary member of the Daisy Forum of India (DFI). On Saturday, 19th of September, Supriya was invited to present at the AGM of the DFI on the activities of VE and especially Subodha and its utility. The presentation was well received. VE joins this consortium to work alongside the members on various interventions to make accessible content for persons with visual impairment, especially in India.
Visionary Ideathon
August, 2020
Visionary Ideathon is a 3-day event from 27th - 30th August by Project Sitara Foundation in collaboration with Vision Empower Trust. It is an opportunity for you to contribute towards science education for the visually impaired children of class 10 across India
Case Study : Bridging digital divides: A framework for digital cooperation.
June, 2020
Vision Empower is covered as one of the case studies in Chap 3: Bridging digital divides: A framework for digital cooperation.
ICTD 2020 : Paper presentation
June, 2020
The paper "Conceptual Learning through Accessible Play: Project Torino and Computational Thinking for Blind Children in India", co-authoured by Gesu India, Microsoft Research India, Geetha Ramakrishna, Vision Empower, Joyojeet Pal, Microsoft Research India and Swami Manohar, Microsoft Research India, was presented at ICTD 2020 (Paper Session 4.1)
Special Recognition Award. : Innopreneurs Startup Contest 2020
April, 2020
Vision Empower was one of the 7 finalists out of 53 teams selected at the 5th edition of the Innopreneurs Startup Contest 2020 held on Feb 1 and 2 2020 at Indore.
Vision Empower presented Hexis – the refreshable Braille book reader and was awarded the Special Recognition Award.
Forbes India: When the blind lead the blind, to success
March, 2020
Visually impaired entrepreneurs are helping make science subjects more accessible to students like themselves.
Naini Thaker, Forbes India Staff reports
Pragya January 2020
January, 2020
A two day Teachers’ training workshop Pragya’2020 was organized by Vision Empower, in collaboration with Mathruchhaya- Canara Bank Relief & Welfare Society on 28th and 29th of January. The workshop was attended by 13 teachers from 8 schools for children with visual impairment. Out of 13 teachers who attended the...
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Empower 2019
January, 2020
Empower 2019, a conference hosted by IIT Delhi in partnership with Microsoft Research, was an event that aimed to bring together all stakeholders working in the assistive technology sector. Consisting of innovative talks, a tech exhibition, and 2 experience zones for persons with disabilities to experience technology curated with a...
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DH Changemakers | A vision to empower
January, 2020
In 2017, as her classmates at the IIITB’s MSc in Digital Society showed job offers from tech majors, 24-year-old Vidhya Y watched it in dismay. She, after all, was the class topper and gold medalist, and no company had made an offer fitting her skill… “Some of the companies asked...
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Inclusive-Stem Confluence 2020
January, 2020
The event is in third year running of its earlier Inclusive STEM Hackathon version. The hackathon was where blind and visually impaired developers, industry professionals and CS students came together to work on exciting and challenging problems. The aim of the hackathon was to sensitise the engineers from potential IT...
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Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019
November, 2019
During the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2019, Vision Empower (VE) was given an opportunity to showcase Hexis in the IIITB pavilion.
Bangalore’s IIIT developing affordable Braille reader for students
October, 2019
The New Indian Express
Oct 9 2019
Presenting the Ludic Design Approach at the Samvaad Talk series at IIITB
September, 2019
Prof Amit Praskash, Supriya Dey and Aishwarya O presented the findings of the Ludic Design Approach. Watch the recording of the talk.
Anubhav 2019
September, 2019
Anubhav 2019 was designed based on information gathered over June 2018 – August 2019 from the VE school interventions which culminated in design of the 2 days of workshop on various learning activities.
Inclusive Learning for the Blind, Let’s Embrace the Growing Needs of Stem Education, Impacts on Inclusion and Social Integration
September, 2019
Vidhya and Supriya were speakers in a panel Discussion on “Inclusive Learning for the Blind, Let’s Embrace the Growing Needs of Stem Education, Impacts on Inclusion and Social Integration” at the SayEverything Convention 2019, jointly organised by SayEverything Group and Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled
Making STEM accessible with the aid of Geometry Boxes
September, 2019
Vision Empower is sincerely grateful to Mr. Balaji Varadarajan for contributing to this endeavour of making STEM accessible, by donating geometry boxes to all the schools using funds he has earned for his contribution as a Programming language trainer for visually impaired persons.
Science to be easily accessible to visually impaired school children
August, 2019
In what could be a boost in Science education for the visually impaired, the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) has developed a technology to help generate tactile images of diagrams in Science textbooks faster.