We are at the last leg of the Right To Read campaign. The Indian government has proposed certain amendments to the Indian Copyright Act, which will have a far reaching and severely negative impact on the lives of millions of Indians who are visually impaired, dyslexic, have cerebral palsy, etc. This amendment is scheduled to [...]
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Call to arms – disastrous copyright amendment for the visually impaired
Posted in Breaking Stereotypes, Right to Read, Uncategorized, tagged amendment, blind, copyright, Right to Read, visually impaired on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Solutions for the Global Print-Impaired
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
So, we have started to explore another way, another forum to reach out to an interesting bunch of folks up by Ashoka. For those of you who have not heard of them, Ashoka is a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. In order to facilitate exchange of ideas, Ashoka has started an ideas [...]
Something big is hitting inclusive planet this March
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ladies and gentlemen, It has been a while. How you doing? I have something to say. I cannot talk about it cause it isn’t supposed to be discussed, at least for sometime. But my tummy hurts when I try keeping secrets so I thought I would atleast leave some hints for you to guess. Something [...]
Changing the World… One idea at a time
Posted in Inclusive Ideas, Inclusive Planet Updates, Thanks, Uncategorized on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One month ago, we told you about Inclusive Ideas and the initiation of the SANCB Challenge. We are really happy to tell you that Lindie’s initiative to look for a global solution through the Inclusive Planet community received a phenomenal response. When we set off attempting to hunt for feedback we did not anticipate the [...]
Tech support on inclusive planet
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
People, now we know that we have some serious backing from people at some very high places Best Anant
Growing up in Africa!
Posted in Member Spotlight, Uncategorized on February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Im sure those of you who visit www.inclusiveplanet.com regularly would have discovered the numerous interesting posts by Deon. We decided that we will get Deon to share more about himself so all you out there can get to know him better. We sent him some questions and the answers we received are absolutely fantastic – [...]
Accessible Class Notes Project
Posted in Accessibility, Accessible Content, Project 10k, Uncategorized, tagged Accessible Content, education, students, teachers on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for Accessible Class Notes? Log on to www.inclusiveplanet.com Through the Accessible Class Notes Project, visually impaired students across the world are sharing their class notes with each other. Now you won’t have to scan something which somebody else already has! It’s all here on Inclusive Planet! Please share this link with all the students, teachers and [...]
study LAST minute!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for Accessible Class Notes? Log on to www.inclusiveplanet.com Through the Accessible Class Notes Project, visually impaired students across the world are sharing their class notes with each other. Now you won’t have to scan something which somebody else already has! It’s all here on Inclusive Planet! Please share this link with all the students, [...]
Jacob the Blind Biker from South Africa
Posted in Member Spotlight, Uncategorized on January 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Jacob is a member of Inclusive Planet. This article is a must read for everyone who wants inspiration! I pondered for a long time on how I could capture the essence of an interesting, multi-facetted man that I was introduced to. Which box could I put him in for a clearer description? I soon realised [...]
Feast on Channels!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, we do have a New Year surprise! A brand new feature called ‘Channels’! Channels give members an opportunity to showcase themselves to the community and interact at a whole new level! Channels could be created around shared content, activities, common interests or anything you like! Check out the channels created by some of [...]
