User:Sudhirbikram

Mr.Sudhir Bikram Shrestha,is an Special Researcher/ICT Scientist and Founder President of ICT Research Center for Persons with Disabilities.

He received his Masters Degree in Computer on 2007 A.D and his Masters Degree Dissertation was on, " Information & Communication Technology for the Social Inclusion of People With Disabilities in Nepal - Special Reference to People With Visual Impairment."

With his collegue Mr.Dhurba Gnawali, he has worked on Nepali Braille Converter System which helps to translate Devanagari/Nepali texts into Nepali Braille.

His Research is focused on the investigation of how ICT can be used for the Social Inclusion of the Persons with Disabilities PWDs), more specifically People with Visual Impairment (PWVI). ICT has changed lives of many, so PWDs are not the exception. ICT can be used as a means and medium for Social Inclusion of the disabled. This research is expected to provide a guideline to the policy makers, development workers, and supporting agencies for equitable participation of PWDs to access education and income generation using ICT based assistive technologies and available computer software.

In the year 2007 AD (2064 BS) Information and Communication Technology for Persons with Disablilities was founded and commenced rendering services to people with all types of disabilities. The activities were basically on making general public aware that ICT should also be made accesible to Persons with Disabilities since in this age of Information & Communications Technology, access to information based services is a fundamental human right and it will make PWDs differently able in all spheres of life.

Mr.Shrestha crafted the idea that ICT should also be made accessible for Persons with all types with Disabilities since it acts as an enabling tool for a developing country like Nepal. It was initiated to encourage the uptake of IT (or ICT) among the disabled community, as part of the spin-off from his research work conducted for 2 years.

He visionized,ICT Research Center for PWDs to be the premier social organization working for the welfare of the persons with disabilities in developing country like Nepal.

He is also an ICT for PWDS activist raising public awareness highlighting the capabilities and potential of the persons with disabilities using ICT.He believes that it is ICT + Disabilities that makes a Person with Disabilities differently Able. These significantly bring change in perception of the community towards disabilities and help better integration into the society for a dignified life.

Mr.Shrestha has presented his research report in CAN INFO TECH -IT Conference 2008,Nepal. iCreate 2008 Conference in Bangkok,Thailand. The full manuscript of his research report has been published in the Proceedings for i-CREATe 2008 and indexed in ACM Digital Library and EI.

For more detailed infomration please visit : http://www.ictforpwd.org