About Techshare India
What is Techshare India?
600 million people with disability in the world. India alone has 60 million disabled people. In addition, India has ratified the UN Convention for Persons with Disabilities. Would you like to tap this market?
India has the Persons with Disabilities Act that focuses on equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation for people with disabilities. But we have not succeeded in main streaming people with disabilities into society. The answer lies in building and creating awareness about the needs and potential of the people with disabilities and not in the legal framework alone.
BarrierBreak Technologies is organizing a conference and exhibition that will bring together the entire ecosystem - the government, the corporates, the NGOs, the disabled, the product companies and the education providers for the first time under one roof. The conference will be a platform to share insights and learning’s.
Since 2000, Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), UK, has been organizing Techshare. BarrierBreak Technologies now brings Techshare to India.
Techshare offers workshops and presentations. In addition, it provides an opportunity to meet with other professionals working in this area from all over the world as well as browse the exhibition space.
Come and experience people with disabilities working with assistive technology in the first ever Experiential Lab at Techshare India.
Techshare India will be a pan disability conference and exhibition. Today, the barriers that we see are in the areas of:
- Mindset
- Infrastructure
- Education
- Technology
Our vision is to break these barriers and include people with disabilities into main stream society.
Objectives
Objectives of Techshare India:
- Creating awareness about accessibility
- Building a platform for knowledge sharing
- Exploring assistive technology
Highlights
We envisage Techshare India 2008 as a milestone that would bring a revolution in the society for including people with disabilities in the main stream.
- First "2-day Accessibility Conference" in India
- Organizing committee featuring international bodies such as Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), UK
- 500 plus delegates from government, non-profit, education institutes, and corporate from across the globe
- 50 plus speakers
- 4 Tracks
- 6 accessibility workshops
- State-of-the-art experience lab showcasing assistive technology
- Exhibition with 25 plus stalls displaying assistive aids pan disability
