Seika Display is popular

Sight City, Europe’s largest exhibition for the visually impaired, was held in Frankfurt, Germany from May 10th to 12th for the first time in four years. Nippon Telesoft exhibited braille printers and other products, and the latest equipment, such as the PC-embedded braille display “Studio,” attracted attention. In addition, our braille printer “GEMINI” attracted attention for its ability to print braille and ink characters simultaneously using pins designed for the US and Europe, and for its quiet printing sound with braille software compatible with various languages. It has also been decided that the product will be newly adopted in Bulgaria.

The Japanese government donated a braille printer manufactured by Nippon Telesoft to the Krousar Thamey School for the visually and hearing impaired in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, through its grassroots ODA.

The presentation ceremony was held on January 28th, and the representative secretary from the Japanese Embassy and many teachers from the school, including Principal Para, attended to receive the braille equipment from Japan. The equipment, which includes four braille printers, 12 braille displays, and recording equipment, will be distributed to other regional branches of the school and used to print textbooks in braille and to make audio CDs.

A training session on how to use the equipment was also held at the same time, and the students learned how to use a computer and braille translation software to print Cambodian and braille at the same time. This is the first braille printer that can print braille and Cambodian at the same time in Cambodia, and the teacher said, “It’s easy to teach students because it has ink characters,” “We can make a lot of textbooks that were in short supply,” and “This is my first experience with a braille display, but I would like to use it as a device to assist in learning.” Nippon Telesoft will continue to cooperate with the project, including providing maintenance for the equipment.

Introducing the use of braille printers in ODA

The Global Festa JAPAN 2021, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, JICA, and others, was held on October 9th and 10th at the Tokyo Forum in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, where Nippon Telesoft representative Kaneko participated in the symposium “Overseas expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises and ODA” and reported on examples of the use of braille printers. This year, the 30th anniversary of the festival, the venue also had exhibition booths from international NGOs, NPOs, and countries such as the Kyrgyz Republic, and guides in national costumes gave a tour, making it an international event. Our company also demonstrated a braille printer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs booth, and provided those who wanted one with their own name printed in braille. They were impressed by the braille names they had never seen before.

At the symposium, we introduced a case study of an “ICT classroom” for visually impaired people implemented by the Vietnam Blind Association, using video footage, and reported that it had achieved results in the education and employment of people with disabilities, fulfilling the role of ODA in supporting developing countries.