International Trainers Training was conducted from May 17 to 23, 2008 at Century Park Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

In this training, there were 13 participants from Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, China, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Mongol, Laos and Cambodia. "DAISY Translator" and "Pipeline" were introduced and mainly used during the training as well as "Sigtuna DAR 3" were used recording for DAISY 2.02 full text and audio production.

Annual report for July 2003 - March 2004

Monthian Buntan (mbuntan@tab.or.th)

Assistant Project Manager

DAISY for All Project

Introduction

As the DAISY For ALL Project (DFA) was launched by the DAISY Consortium (DC) under the sponsorship of the Nippon Foundation, Thai Blind People's foundation (TBPF) was chosen by Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura, DFA project manager, to serve as the focal point for DFA project in Thailand and a DFA regional support center. Since the beginning, I, as the executive director of TBPF, has presumed the task of a defacto co-ordinator in Thailand, and later on, a DFA project assistant manager as stated by the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between DFA project manager
and TBPF on July 30, 2003. (See more detail from MOU.)

In order to illustrate how this focal point and DFA regional support center has come into being, this report will go back to our activities from May 2003 up to the present time. They are as follows:

Annual report for July 2003 - March 2004
Dipendra Manocha (dipendram@vsnl.net)
Assistant Project Manager
DAISY For All project

DFA resource centre in India
Population of 2.8 million blind and low vision persons speaking 22 different languages pose a tough challenge to provide books and information in accessible formats in India. The work of producing materials in accessible formats is the tasks performed by the Nongovernment agencies in the country. Thus there is absence of single agency incharge of such materials production. Involvement of multiple agencies in this process required adoptions of standards so that there is a possibility of cooperation and collaboration among various agencies.

Amongst such challenges and problems, effort is made to provide comprehensive solution by the establishment of the DFA resource centre in India. As a part of this resource centre following facilities were established:

DTB Production facility

Two sound proof recording studios with professional equipment have been established for direct recording. Three systems have been set up for editing and finalization of digital talking books. The facility is working on production of 3000 hours of fresh recording of DAISY books every year.

DFA International Trainers Training 2007 (fiscal year 2006) Report

Report

There were ten participants, three from Philippine, two from Pakistan, two from Indonesia, one from Vietnam, one from Nepal, one from Laos in the training. The course was designed to be a advanced course for the DAISY DTB production to help their own country to implement DAISY and a preparatory course for to-be DFA International Trainers.

In this course, sometimes participants were asked to work in small groups. There were several times where participants were asked to discuss problems and solutions. Also, sometimes the individual was asked to teach others how to produce DTBs. Since there were some people who were not familiar with some of the steps producing DTBs, this helped those people also some individuals who came front to teach others.

The training covered how to create better DAISY DTBs which includes; production of TOC only DTBs, xml, xhtml, css, validation and production of full text DAISY DTBs, and how to fix the problematic DAISY DTBs.

International Trainer's Training was conducted from June 29 to July 10, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. This training was to provide in depth trainers who would become a trainer in the neighboring countries as well as support on-site training in their own country. It was hosted by Monthian Buntan and conducted by Miki Azuma.

May 2-5, 2007. Bangkok, Thailand

The workshop had been organized by Marisa DeMeglio with Daniel Weck and Julien Quint. 10 participants from 5 countries localized AMIS into their respective languages. New language packs of Chinese, Thai, Filipino, Malay and Nepali is available for download at http://daisy.org/project/amis.

The International Conference on Tsunami Preparedness of Persons with Disabilities was held on January 11-12, 2007 in Phuket, Thailand. The conference was organized by Monthian and Hiroshi.

By Monthian Buntan
Assistant Manager, DFA Project
May 21, 2006

1. Background:

Since the DAISY For All Project was started in 2003, one of its main activities has been to provide training. Focal point trainings were held domestically in each country where DFA focal point was established while International Trainers' trainings were held twice in Bangkok Thailand. Focal point trainings focus on DAISY book production where as ITT takes it further to cover more advanced knowledge and problem solving.

2. Date

The training took place from May 13 until May 19, 2006, starting from 9:00-17:00 with additional one hour of practice and occasionally up to 22:00.

3. Training and accommodation venue

The training was held at the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD), Bangkok, Thailand, where both training facilities and accommodation rooms for all trainees were located in the same building. However, this option ended up being more expensive and more difficult than our expectation.

A training workshop for potential trainers of DAISY production / Playback tools was hosted by Monthian Buntan and conducted by Miki Azuma in Bangkok. We want to thank the Nippon Foundation for visiting the training and their generous support of DFA and sponsorship of this training course.

The full report follows.

Report

There were twelve participants, two from Nepal, two from Bangladesh, two from Vietnam, two from India, one from Malaysia, one from Indonesia, one from Thailand, and one from philippine in the training. The course was designed to be a advanced course for the DAISY DTB production to help their own country to implement DAISY and a preparatory course for to-be DFA International Trainers.

In this course, participants were seated in four different groups. There were several times where participants were asked to discuss problems and solutions. This was a first time to introduce this method and it was quite efficient since the level of the participants were quite different. In the group setting, participants needed to help each other and they were able to learn from other participants.