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INCLUSIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

International DAISY Technical Conference for capacity building in developing countries for making information accessible to all including persons with print disabilities.

(October 28-29, 2010 in New Delhi, India)

Day 1: October 28, 2010

8 – 9 A.M. Registration

9 – 11 A.M. Session 1: Inauguration and Keynote

  1. Welcome; Dipendra Manocha; DAISY Forum of India.
  2. inaugural Address; Mr. Vinod C. Khanna; Tech Mahindra Foundation
  3. inaugural Address; James Thurston ; Senior Strategist for Global Policy and Standards; Microsoft
  4. inaugural Address; Sonia Srivastava; Intel
  5. inaugural Address; Dr, Anil Chawla , Regional HR Head TCS Ltd. and Ms. Priya Mittal Delhi Branch Lead, TCS Maitree
  6. inaugural Address; Mr. Andrew Tu; World Intellectual Property right Organisation, United Nations
  7. inaugural Address; Mr. K.M. Acharya, Secretary Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment; Government of India
  8. Key Note Address: Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura, President DAISY Consortium

11:00 – 11:30 A.M. Tea Break

11:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Session 2: Best Practice Models of Digital Libraries

Facilitator: Mr. Peter Osborne, Royal National Institute of the Blind, U.K.

Session Chair Mr. V.B. Taneja, Adviser, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Noida

  1. The US Accessible Materials library Models: Mr. George Kerscher, Secretary General , DAISY Consortium
  2.  Bookshare.org DAISY and Braille library: Betsy Beaumon, Bookshare, U S A,
  3.  Service to print disabled persons, the Swedish model - today and tomorrow: Jesper Klein, Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille, Sweden.
  4.  The RNIB Talking and Braille library model in UK: Peter Osborn, Royal National Institute of the Blind, United Kingdom
  5.  The I-Access online library of news papers and magazines: Julie Rae, Vision Australia, Australia
  6.  Accessibility in mainstream National Library of Korea ; Young Sook Lee; National Library of Korea, Korea

1:00 – 2:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 P.M. Session 3: DAISY Implementation beyond libraries for the blind

Facilitator: Hiroshi Kawamura, President, DAISY Consortium

Session Chair: Mr. B.K. Murthi, Head National Knowledge Network Division, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of India

  1. Hybrid Digital Books for mainstream digital publishing :Maarten Verboom, Dedicon, Netherlands
  2.  DAISY Books – Textbooks to students with dyslexia in compulsory school in Sweden. National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools, Sweden. Björn Nyqvist, Coordinator National Agency for Special Needs and Education
  3. DAISY Books – Textbook service to university students with dyslexia: Kjell Hansson, TPB, Sweden
  4.  DAISY for disaster preparedness for persons with psychological disorders: Hiroshi Kawamura, ATDO, Japan
  5.  DAISY Books created for and by children with Autism: Mayu Hamada, ATDO, Japan
  6. IPASOL, Free and Open Source community and library development tool, Inclusive Planet, India
  7. DAISY Books for Chess Players: Charudatta Jadhav, TCS, India

3:30 – 4:00 P.M. Tea Break

4:00 – 5:30 P.M. Session 4: DAISY Book Production Tools

Facilitator: Avneesh Singh, DAISY Consortium

Session Chair: Dr. Sunilkumar Kopparapu, TCS Innovation Labs, India

  1. Production Tools Overview: Ole Holst Andersen, NOTA Denmark
  2.  Dolphin systems DAISY Production tools: steve Bennet, Dolphin Computer Access, United Kingdom
  3.  DAISY Consortium's Open source production tools : Avneesh Singh, DAISY Consortium
  4. Microsoft Save As DAISY, Alok Lall Microsoft
  5.  Intel® Online Talking Book Library - DTB Production management system: Aishwarya and Marian, Intel
  6. Self teaching OBI learning system for volunteers: Colonel Patnaik, Tech Mahindra Satyam
  7. Exegenix, an Automation in DTB Production: Tomal Deb, TCS India

7:30 – 10:30 Dinner hosted by DAISY Forum of India, Bookshare and Centre for Internet and Society at the Delhi Gymkhana Club

Day 2: October 29, 2010

9:30 – 11:00 A.M. Session 5: Latest developments in DAISY Standards and its relationship with other international standards

Facilitator: George Kerscher, Secretary General DAISY Consortium and Chairman International Digital Publisher’s Forum

Session Chair: Dr. Ramakrishnan, Consultant, National Knowledge Network, Advisor Media Lab Asia, Former DG Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

  1. Key features of DAISY 4 and its relationship with EPUB (International Digital Publishers Forum): Dr. George Kerscher, Chairman International Digital Publisher's Forum and Secretary General DAISY Consortium, USA
  2.  Key features of DAISY 4 and its relationship with EPUB (International Digital Publishers Forum): Kenny Johar, Vision Australia, Australia
  3.  DAISY Online, standards for online libraries: Peter Osborne, Royal National Institute of the Blind, United Kingdom
  4.  global Library: Bernhard Heinser, Daisy Consortium, Switzerland

11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break

11:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Session 6: Playback tools

Facilitator: Prashant Ranjan Verma

Session Chair: Mr. A.K. Mittal, Treasurer World Blind Union, President All India Confederation of the Blind

  1. Playback tools overview: Prashant Ranjan Verma, DAISY Consortium, India
  2.  Humanware players: Ivan Lagace
  3.  players from Plextalk: Hiromitsu Fujimori
  4. The Buddy player: Mr. Baoni
  5. Dolphin Ease Reader and express: Steve Bennett
  6.  Nuance DAISY2Go: Mr. Anubhav Mitra
  7.  CodeFactory DAISY Player: Mr. Dinesh Kaushal
  8.  Angel Player: Mr. Prashant Naik

1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 P.M. Session 7: Challenges and solutions of DAISY Implementation in developing countries

Facilitator and session chair: Chris Friend, WBU Strategic Objective Leader on Accessibility and Chair WBU Global Right to Read Campaign

  1. Experiences of DFA Project and beyond: Hiroshi Kawamura, DAISY Consortium
  2.  DAISY in South America: Pedro Milliet, Dorina Nowill Foundation for the blind, Brazil
  3.  DAISY In Nepal: Birendra Raj Pokhrel, NFDN, Nepal
  4.  DAISY in Bangladesh: Vashkar Vattacharya, YPSA, Bangladesh
  5.  The Shri Lanka Experience: Asoka Bandula, DAISY Lanka Foundation, Sri Lanka
  6.  DAISY Forum of India: Dipendra Manocha, President, DAISY Forum of India
  7.  DAISY Implementation in Developing Countries: Chris Friend, WBU Strategic Objective Leader on Accessibility and Chair WBU Global Right to Read Campaign

3:30 – 4:00 P.M. Tea Break

4:00 – 5:00 P.M. Session 8: DAISY implementation plan for Developing countries

Facilitator and session chair: Hiroshi Kawamura, DAISY Consortium

  1. Suggested action plan for Developing Countries: Chris Friend, Hiroshi Kawamura, Dipendra Manocha, Peter Osborne
  2.  open house discussion on the plan

5:00 5:30 P.M. Session 9: Valedictory

Facilitator: Dr. Sam Taraporevala

  1. Concluding Remarks by Ms. Anuradha Mohit, Director, National Institute for Visually Handicapped, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India
  2. Concluding Remarks, DAISY Consortium
  3. concluding Remarks by the Chief Guest, Mr. Swashpawan Singh, former Ambassador of India, WIPO Director General’s Honorary Advisor on the Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) Initiative
  4. Vote of Thanks, Dr. Rakesh Jain, General Secretary, DAISY Forum of India

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