Welcome to the VISION 2020 UK website
VISION 2020 UK is an umbrella organisation which facilitates greater collaboration and co-operation between organisations within the UK, which focus on vision impairment and operate on a national, regional or international basis.
VISION 2020 UK is a supporting member of the VISION 2020 Global Initiative. For details of the worldwide programme or to make enquiries, please click anywhere on this text.
VISION 2020 UKs objectives are:
- To prevent avoidable blindness
- To improve the quality of services to vision impaired people
- To improve the training available to professionals providing advice and services
- To improve communication between organisations within the VI Sector
- To improve the availability of information to vision impaired people
- To ensure that the voices of the vision impaired are heard when planning services and their opinions sought on key issues affecting their lives
- To raise public awareness of the issues and problems relating to sight loss
In addition to the above, VISION 2020 UK will seek to provide a unified response on key issues affecting vision impaired people and to provide visual impairment sector representatives for consultation groups, working parties and project groups.
UK Vision Strategy
The UK Vision Strategy is a VISION 2020 UK initiative led by RNIB to develop a unified plan for action on all issues relating to vision, across the four countries of the UK.
For more information go to UK Vision Strategy Information
Technology - Is It For Me?
Mike Brace and Robin Spinks discuss the latest in technology for the visual impairment sector.Mike Brace reviews the Penfriend which voice labels anything you can stick a label on!
Broadcast on 25th Jul 11 at 15:11
Hi there, this is Mike Brace with part of the series about technology - "is IT for me". When I first discussed this with Robin Spinks on an earlier phonecast, we talked about everything from low cost to high cost technology, and complex to simple pieces of kit. The first review I want to start with is a piece of kit called The Penfriend. I'll describe it first of all and then I'll go on to tell you the sort of things that it does. It's is a pen about six inches long and enables you to voice label anything you can stick a label on. Click on the phonecast and listen for more.
Tags: point pen, piece of cake, high technology, phone call- Broadcast on 9th Jul 11 at 22:59
So this is Robin from Technology is it for me? This is the final installment from Texure(?) Africa. So the conference finished yesterday that's Friday and we rounded things out with a again in style press conference where we had 15 people from the Canen(?) media represented. Not all of them turned up for the press conference but with a very good session covering all angles of the press conference and covering the Texure(?) event and also talking about the UN CRPD the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and heard out my impact. Things going forward. So a really successful 5th Africa Forum, I rounded off with a very nice closing ceremony on Thursday evening with traditional Ghanainian the music was lovely so yesterday
Tags: crpd, africa forum, convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, style press, persons with disabilities - Broadcast on 6th Jul 11 at 01:25
Yes Sue it's Robin here for Technology Is It For Me and we are just to the end of a very busy second day of techs(?) here Africa here in ___ Anggana(?). It's been a pretty fill on day we started off for the Keno(?) this morning from Kevin Kerry for more idea of course which was a very thought a ___ King a presentation always always something that ___ to engaged and stimulate and make people think. So what I was very good then today also I have been presenting a work shop a session with Steve Griffith looking affordable low cost technology and then after that meeting various people from around the world and our African friends and colleagues here in Anggana(?). Then this afternoon Ranna(?) at social media work shop.
Tags: steve griffith, african friends, ranna, colleagues, kerry - Broadcast on 5th Jul 11 at 19:55
Hi so this is Robin for Technology Is It For Me and we're broadcasting to you live from Accra(?) in Ganna where the very first picture Africa got underway this morning as part of Access Africa the stress IDP(?) Africa forum and we've had a really good first day. It's been very fill on. We had the official opening with wonderful traditional music and singing this morning and the information minister the minister for social affairs doing the formal opening of the conference along with various for channel welcome messages following that we had a Keeno(?) presentation from Jeffrey Avina from Microsoft which was very well received and then following lunch we've broken to workshop so it's been a busy day for me presenting a session on mobile technology this afternoon as part of the
Tags: africa forum, welcome messages, avina, ganna, information minister - Broadcast on 1st Jul 11 at 19:30
Hi there, it's Robin here at Broad Casting Live to you from the Cana Institute of Management and Public Administration here in the Cra(?) and down in West Africa. This is Friday and then today we have been continuing to set up the event marking out the accessibility features of the building. And I'm staring in front that the ___ of the front of the building that just been decorate in a beautiful Orange ribbon as as a high contrast marker and line with good practice for event so that's good to see and also some other adjustments that be made to the building to make it more location friendly. Would also been pretty leveling the hotel rooms to mark out the exact room numbers for each rooms. Just gonna go over and do a bit more of that and of course there is the opportunity for people to continue to book for the event they can do that w b u.
Tags: orange ribbon, exact room, accessibility features, room numbers, institute of management
