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14.01.10: RoboBraille named winner of BETT Awards
RoboBraille is named winner of BETT Awards in London – the prestigious annual recognition of excellence in educational ICT.
Read more about the BETT Awards here
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24.09.09: RoboBraille named winner of ACCESS-IT Award 2009
RoboBraille has Recieved the Access -IT @ Learning Award in London last night at the special Access-IT Award ceremony at Cardinal Place, Victoria.
Read more about the Access-IT Award 2009 here
17.06.09:RoboBraille wins international recognition
RoboBraille was named winner of the category “Reaching the Digitally Excluded” at The National eWell-Being Awards in London.
Read more about the eWell-being Award here
12.06.09: Create your own structured audiobooks with RoboBraille
As a new service RoboBraille supports production of structured audio books based on the DAISY format.
More information about DAISY
03.06.09: Movie about RoboBraille
The winners of the e-Inclusion awards - including RoboBraille - have been visited by a professional film crew.
See the movie about RoboBraille here
11.05.09 RoboBraille is amongst the finalists to a prestigious British price
Thursday it was announced that RoboBraille is finalist for the British eWell-Being Award in the category “Reaching the Digitally Excluded”.
Read more about the nomination here
25.02.09 Film on RoboBraille coming up
Yesterday – February 25.th - a British film crew has been in Denmark shooting a documentary on RoboBraille. The instigator of the documentary is the European Commission on the occasion that Synscenter Refsaes won the “e-accessibility Award” for the project at The 2008 eInclusion Awards in Vienna.
Read more about the film here
02.12.08 RoboBraille wins e-Inclusion Award
RoboBraille was named winner of The e-Accessibility Award when the European Commission was hosting The 2008 e-Inclusion Awards at the City Hall in Vienna. The purpose of the e-Inclusion Awards is to set focus on the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to help digitally and socially excluded Europeans.
Read the press release here
07.11.08 RoboBraille presented at the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs
Today, the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs was hosting the Nordic conference “Handicappedes synlighed på olika arenor”, focusing on the exposure of disabled people in the media.
RoboBraille was presented to the delegates from various Nordic interest groups, researches as well as Danish Minister for Culture, Carina Christensen. “Basically, our idea was to give the visitors a ‘hands on’ experience of RoboBraille, so today has been about demonstrating how to e-mail a document for the service and presenting the different voices included in the service”, says PR-coordinator Linda Kristiansen . who did the presentation with project manager Rikke Syberg .
15.10.08: RoboBraille finalist for e-Inclusion Award 2008
RoboBraillle, the award-winning email service for people with a visual impairment or reading difficulties, has been selected as one of the five medal winners in the e-Accessibility category of the e-Inclusion Awards 2008.
The awards will be presented at the European e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference and Exhibition in Vienna from 30 November to 2 December 2008. A gala dinner will be held during this event at which the medallists will be honored and the overall category winners announced.
Read the press release here.