With the rapid spread of the Internet in India with its multi-faceted utility facilities, AYJNIHH, of Mumbai, India in its Outreach & Extension Service Programme has developed an online hearing test to ascertain whether or not someone requires hearing aid. Four sets of questionnaire have been designed for four groups which are linked to the real online test. The hearing screening tests provide a quick and cost effective way to separate people into two groups, a pass group and a fail group. They also have come up with a device to aid some 3.1 million persons suffering from hearing impairment in the country alone. They have set up a special website www.checkhearing.nic.in towards this end.

The target group of this project is people with hearing impairment. They are one of the most vulnerable groups in Sri Lanka. The project uses ICT to teach this group and enable communication among the members of this group. The goal is to improve the level of literacy and communication among people with hearing impairment. The programme uses multi-media tools like CD/DVD, Website, to achieve its goal of making such disadvantaged community inclusive. That the programme uses sign language and provides content in local language is other hallmark of this initiative. All the icons on the website are self explanatory and easy to follow.

Employment Generation and Marketing Mission (EGMM) is a mission set up by the Department of Rural Development of the Andhra Pradesh (AP) Government to provide employment/ employability
for the rural youth. EGMM works in a publicprivate partnership mode with Government, companies and the rural communities as stakeholders. It begins with collecting the data of unemployed youth which goes into a database. A market scan is done to identify opportunities. The youth are screened and enrolled in Training Centres and companies come for campus recruitment. EGMM has set up 450 training centers across A.P. located in rural and tribal areas. About 50 training centers are owned and managed by EGMM. EGMM has also developed and nurtured 14 training partners in different sectors to work for the rural poor.

DAISY Forum of India is a forum of Not for Profit organizations involved in production of books and reading materials in accessible formats for the print impaired (persons who cannot read normal print). The forum is striving to provide maximum reading material to persons with print disabilities which includes but is not limited to persons with blindness or low vision, people of old age, the illiterate, persons affected with language learning disabilities and the mobility impaired by: promoting the use of standards in book production
process (DAISY standards provide maximum accessibility for all) accumulating all content prepared in accessible formats (such as audio, Braille & e-text) throughout the country. They have evolved a central and common book cataloguing and distribution system and Providing cost effective book reading / playback devices and systems.

The need for an early warning system (EWS) to tackle natural disasters led to the development of Video Audio Tri –lingual Disaster Alert System (VATDAS), using the technology of Radio Data Systems (RDS). The system works by sending a small amount of digital data to FM Radio listeners using traditional FM transmissions. A message containing the location identification code and a brief description of the impending event is sent to the radio stations connected to the EWS system, by authorized government bodies. This message, which is transmitted from the station, will be received by the EWS enabled domestic radios and public display panels. If the location identification code of the message matches location code of the radio, it will display the warning messages and give an audible alarm, as well as open the voice channel of the FM radio. The radio receiver is always tuned in to the EWS enabled radio station.