Member Detail: FORCE Foundation Resource Centre

Over the last three years the FORCE Foundation has been active in combating inequality for vision impaired people in many different regions of the world. Its efforts are focused on dealing with the information gap, which greatly affects not only people with vision impairments in developed countries, but those people with vision impairments or blindness in developing countries. FORCE, which is situated in The Hague, The Netherlands, is intended to be a resource centre for libraries for print disabled people in developing countries in Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and the former Soviet Union.

Although FORCE does not implement DAISY technology within the organisation itself, it does organise workshops on behalf of other organisations in developing countries with DAISY digital talking book technologies at the core of the training programs. FORCE event-manages and handles the administration of the training seminars, but request that the DAISY Consortium provide trainers for the workshops. In 2002 the FORCE foundation anticipates organising workshops in Vietnam and Colombia.