Techvision puts blind youths from Pune on cloud nine
Breaking barriers, a group of Pune-based visually impaired youth are writing computer programmes for a US-based information technology (IT) company to enable it to better sell its cloud computing products. The five visually-impaired youth, who belong to Techvision, the IT unit of the city-based NGO, Niwant Andh Mukta Vikasalaya, are working on integrating the US firm Boardwalktech’s existing Excel platform with emerging spreadsheet applications.
This is the latest of the many recent achievements that the Techvision team has notched up in the last 18 months. Set up modestly with just three desktop computers in May 2010, Techvision today is a team of five young persons, many of whom are completing their masters in computer management.
In May 2010, Techvision was tasked to write an Excel-based collaborative product. The Techvision team completed the work using VBA (visual basic for application), Java and MS SQL (database software). Boardwalktech’s Pune-based vice-president Sarang Kulkarni told DNA on Saturday that he was impressed by the work ethic and commitment of the visually impaired team.

