Techshare 2012 to be held in Delhi on 6th and 7th Feb 2012 February 5, 2012

What: Techshare India 2012, Indias only disability conference and exhibition.

When: 6th and 7th of February 2012

Where: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

By whom: BarrierBreak technologies, Mumbai, NCPEDP Delhi and Microsoft.

Why: Techshare is Europe's biggest technology event to promote assistive technology for people with disabilities.

ABOUT TECHCHARE: Rob Sinclair, Chief Accessibility Officer Microsoft will be delivering the keynote address.

TECHSHARE 2012 FOCUSES ON GAMING AND ENTERTAINMENT FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Ashoka Fellow Shilpi Kapoor, Founder BarrierBreak technologies and the Chief organizer of Techshare 2012 says, “we are taking ahead one conversation at a time through Techshare towards policy reform. At Techshare 2008, we invited the world wide web consortium to speak on accessibility guidelines. This then provided inputs to the Government of India guidelines on accessible websites issued in Jan 2009. At Techshare 2010, we focused on talking ATM's. The RBI passed a regulation that 33% of all ATM's to be made accessible for the differently abled. Techshare 2012 will focus on making gaming and entertainment accessible for the persons with disabilities.

To attend: log on to http://techshare.barrierbreak.com/

Heres the agenda http://techshare.barrierbreak.com/agenda2012.php