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Bio :

Dipendra Manocha is the Director developing countries program of the DAISY Consortium that works towards providing publications in accessible formats to the persons with print disability. He has lead several capacity building programs of the Accessible Books Consortium (WIPO). He is an Ashoka fellow, honorary founder Trustee of Saksham Trust, and Honorary president of the DAISY Forum of India and National Association for the Blind (Delhi state branch). He has also worked as a consultant to Delhi University for establishing the resource center for persons with disabilities. He also worked as Assistant Project Manager of the DAISY For All Project under Mr Hiroshi Kawamura.

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