Oswald Foundation
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Private | |
Industry | Accessibility |
Founded | New Delhi, India (August 15, 2016 ) |
Founder |
Anand Chowdhary Nishant Gadihoke |
Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
Key people |
Anand Chowdhary (CEO) Nishant Gadihoke (CTO) Mahendra Raghuwanshi (COO) |
Products |
Valmiki Agastya Shravan |
Website | Oswald Foundation |
Oswald Foundation is an accessibility technology company based in New Delhi, India that build products for individuals suffering from disabilities.[1] It was established in 2016 by then 18-year-old Anand Chowdhary and 15-year-old Nishant Gadihoke after their product, Oswald Extension,[2] won an event at the AngelHack hackathon in New Delhi.[3][4][5] In an interview with The Huffington Post, Chowdhary said that he believes "Oswald can enable a Web 4.0 -- a web centered around accessibility and equality".[6][7]
Oswald Foundation is named in honor of Oswald Berkhan, the German physician who first identified dyslexia in 1881.[8][9]
History
Chowdhary and Gadihoke started working together as students at The Mother's International School, as part of their computer club, MINET, of which Chowdhary was President.[10][11] Chowdhary shared his idea of developing an accessibility tool with Gadihoke, and they decided to develop the extension during the AngelHack Delhi 2016.[12] The tool is based on independent research done by the British Dyslexia Association and the World Wide Web Consortium.[13]
After the development of the tool, Chowdhary and Gadihoke purchased the domain oswald.foundation on August 14, 2016 and founded Oswald Foundation on India's Independence Day on August 15, 2016.[14][15][16] Since then, they have been working on a new smartphone for the disabled that uses vibrational and speech feedback as its primary user interface.[17]
References
- ↑ "Oswald Foundation". oswald.foundation. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ Gadihoke, Anand Chowdhary and Nishant. "Oswald". getoswald.xyz. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ "Learn How Two Teens From Delhi Are Coding To Make The World A Better Place!". AngelHack. 2016-06-18. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ "How Two Teenagers Are Helping People with Dyslexia & Visual Impairments Access the Web". 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ ScoopWhoop. "These Delhi Teens Created A Reading App For People With Dyslexia. Bravo!". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ "These Delhi Teens Want To Change The Web With Their Reading App For Dyslexics". Huffington Post India. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ ParentHerald (2016-08-04). "Special Needs Technology Devised By Teens: Web Reading App For People With Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities And Visual Impairments". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ "Anand Chowdhary on Twitter". Retrieved 2016-09-04.
- ↑ "Accessibility · Oswald International". Oswald International. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- ↑ "MINET - Timeline | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ Goel, Anushka (2016-08-11). "WOW! These Delhi Teens Want To Device A Reading App For The Dyslexic!". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ "How Two Teenagers Are Helping People with Dyslexia & Visual Impairments Access the Web - The Better India | DailyHunt". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ Roy, Himanshu (2016-08-03). "Developed By School Kids, This App Makes Reading Easy For Dyslexics". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ "Oswald Foundation - About | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- ↑ "oswald.foundation whois lookup - who.is". who.is. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- ↑ "Oswald Foundation on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- ↑ Chowdhary, Anand (2016-09-09). "Machine Learning in 6 Lines". Oswald Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-11.