Dear Acccessindians, Today I am writing this mail here with a special purpose in mind. We know very well that subjects like Science and maths have always been a matter of concern to majority of us mainly because of their visual presentation and explanation. This visual presentation leaves these subjects beyond our proper understanding and as such results in their neglect. As an effort to find a solution to this problem and also to make science accessible some renowned science communicators are willing to come forward to develop accessible communication methods for our community. To begin with to discuss the plan to go ahead, it is intended to organize an informal virtual meeting with a small group of persons who are connected with science and science teaching. My daughter, Dr. Suchita Kulkarni who is working in research field in Vienna, has written a mail to me in this regard. I am pasting her mail below. Those willing to co-operate in this endeavour can directly get in touch with her. Her e-mail ID is: suchita.kulka...@gmail.com
Sincerely, C. B. Kuulkarni Her e-mail follows: I am writing you an email with cc to my dad. I also cc Sharmaji who is a very respected figure in Indian science communication and is happy to help us in this endeavor. I suppose dad has already told you a bit about our thoughts. Let me begin with defining what I mean by science communication. Science communication is a field which explains cutting edge scientific developments to the individuals of the society in simple understandable language. To my mind, the way science communication is done currently, it is not accessible for blind community. Thus we want to understand the problems blind individuals face in understanding popular science articles and then expand this to a broader field of disabled individuals. To my understanding the huge emphasis on diagrams, charts and images does not make popular science accessible for blind communities and science communicators need to understand this clearly. A direct communication with you all will help understand the bottlenecks and will help us make better science communication. We come to you with this vision. To begin with, we wish to have a small zoom meeting (which could be periodic) with a select few members of your group. The age or the education of these individuals is not a barrier, we would however like to have constructive feedback. Therefore it will be nice to have people who will discuss and be patient with us. We are also doing it the first time and have little experience with this. I was thinking we could present a small snippet on a science topic. It could be e.g. Coronavirus, climate change, comets, airplanes, anything that you like. You could give us a list of a few topics such that we can pick a few and prepare. Once we present our way of doing science communication, your group can tell us where improvements can be done. I can imagine there will also be a more general feedback and ideas that you would want to share. We will be delighted to hear them. At the moment, nothing is set in stone, we look at it as a wonderful beginning of something. We wish to define that something together with you. I hope my thoughts are clear, I am sorry for the very long email. Please do not hesitate to speak up your mind and let us know what you think. best, skype ID: chandrashekhar.b.kulkarni -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAEVvFMPpwfUyjti0M3zDLDz%3DVmtVVVhg%3Db0_U0OdXzGXFMZEMQ%40mail.gmail.com.
