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October 11, 2005
DAISY workshop in bangladesh -Vashkar Vattacharya
Dear Sir/Madam,
Greetings from YPSA!
It’s our pleasure to inform you that, YPSA is going to hold first Focal
Point Training [FPT] for DAISY Digital Talking Books [DTB] Production in
Bangladesh.
Focal Point Training [FPT] for DAISY DTB Production Organized by Young
Power in Social Action (YPSA) Under the DAISY For All [DFA] Project on 10th
to 15th October 2005 at the YPSA -HRDC Chittagong, Bangladesh.
The Major Objectives of Focal Point Training are:
・To develop ability of participants to use DAISY Production tools to
create DAISY 2.02 Digital Talking Books.
・To develop ability of participants to create DAISY 2.02 files.
The Training will be conducted in English and International experts on ICT
from Japan, Malaysia and India will be Facilitated the Training Workshop.
10 participants have selected from Focal Point Organization [YPSA],
Schools with visual impairment in Chittagong and Organizations from other
part of Bangladesh.
Persons with visual impaired and computer trainers got the priority.
DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information System which can ensure
information in accessible format for the person with disabilities
especially for Print disabled.
“Our vision is that all published information is available to people with
print disabilities, at the same time and at no greater cost, in an
accessible, feature-rich, navigable format.”
To know more about DAISY please visit "DAISY Consortium"
http://www.daisy.org and "DAISY for All Project"
http://www.daisy-for-all.org
Sincerely yours,
Md. Arifur Rahman
Chief Executive
Contact Person for the Focal Point Training for DAISY DTB Production
in Bangladesh:
Mr. Vashkar Vattacharya
Program officer and
DAISY Focal point for Bangladesh
Young power in Social Action [YPSA]
House # F (10) P, Road # 13, Block-B, Chandgaon R/A, Chittagong-4212,
BANGLADESH
E-mail: info@vashkar.tk and info@ypsa.org
Tel: +88-031-672857
Mobile- +88-0178-345035
Web site- www.ypsa.org
Posted by jicafriends at October 11, 2005 05:03 PM