Torsten Brand Prize

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The Torsten Brand Prize promotes ideas and projects that enable the blind and visually impaired to have better access to information and communication. This should be done by making it easier to use technology. Individuals and groups, research projects as well as non-profit institutions and organizations from all over Germany can apply . The prize was awarded for the first time on October 21, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau . The prize is endowed with 7,000 euros.

Founder & namesake

Nuance Communications is the founder of the Torsten Brand award . Brand († 2010), even blind, was the first programmer a voice output software ( " screen readers ") on mobile phones . With his software TALKS (previously "Talx") he went to Nuance Communications and worked there for several years.

jury

• Corinna Brand, widow of Torsten Brand
• Verena Bentele , German biathlete, cross-country skier, four-time World Cup and twelve-time Paralympic winner, blind from birth
• Peter Brass, 1st Chairman of the Association of Visually Impaired Computer Users. V. ( ISCB )
• Wilhelm Gerike, IT administrator and aid advisor at the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired in Study and Work e. V. ( DVBS )
• Rudi Ullrich, member of the Presidium of the German Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired ( DBSV ) and head of the "Communication and Participation" department of the Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e. V. ( blista )
• Arnd Weil, VP & General Manager Consumer Electronics & Automotive, Nuance Communications.

winner

• 2011 winner
  • "Look and Listen Map" by Annette Thurow and Peter Wendorff (also winner of the Wikimedia competition "WissensWert" 2010)
  • “Andersicht audio pen for gastronomy and museums” by Jürgen Trinkus
  • "Guide Me" by Thomas Kiesl

Web links

• Official website ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Recognition for Andersicht at the Torsten Brand Award ceremony . October 21, 2011.
2. ↑ Thomas Kiesl: Excellent - the Appschmiede receives the Torsten Brand Prize ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . October 21, 2011.