PRESENTATION – PART 4 : SUMMING UP
I WOULD LIKE TO
CONCLUDE WITH THREE PROPOSALS : 1. The United
Nations initiatives of Education For All and Health For All must be consciously expanded to guarantee
literacy and education to every blind child of the world, with solutions like
the UBK and UEK This would certainly make for
practical, rational and
holistic welfare strategies that can be accomplished at very
little extra cost. 2. We would wish to
encourage free world-wide replication and adaptation of the Natesan
Refreshable Braille Display. This would make it increasingly affordable and
hopefully, ultimately reach the hands
of every blind child in the world. to
facilitate this objective, we are
placing the complete
technical specifications and designs of the nrbd, together with an
enabling Open General License, called the Natesan-GPL, for free download at
our websites www.vidyavrikshah.org and www.worthtrust.org.in 3. We would also
offer to help establish production
facilities for all our solutions, wherever funding is provided.
For example, we have established
a Braille Slate production unit in
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge here, specifically in respect of the shaping of
my basic design of the Natesan Refreshahble Braille Display into a product,
the valuable contributions of several valued friends as listed below : Keith Shaw, Edward Rogers, Theodore Moallem and Paul
Kronenberg : For their ideas and encouragement, through
brainstorm sessions on the design at its formative stage. R.Krishnaswamy and Leon Chen : For their practical appraisals of performance of the first prototype,
and solutions suggested for its
problems. Ramesh Ayyar and Paul D’Souza : For their highly innovative and substantive
inputs, specially on the operational controls, leading to the final design, with Ramesh also contributing the IT
components of support hardware and software. Airala Kumar : For his committed effort in assimilating all ideas
into the final design and
handling the onward fabrication and
assembly processes leading to the final prototype and product. K.Radhakrishnan, former Managing Director, T.G.Venkatesh,
former Vice-President , and P.Athmanathan, present Chief Executive Officer, of
Worth Trust : For their unstinted organizational support at all stages
of development of the product, with the first two providing technical reality checks through the
development stages. TO
THESE FRIENDS, I OFFER MY DEEP APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE. |
CONTACT INFORMATION
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11956, Email : viji_dilip@yahoo.com Website : www.vidyavrikshah-usa.org |
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