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DUTO
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Colombia
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Team Members
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Position
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Nationality
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María Fernanda Zúñiga Zabala
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Chief Executive Officer
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Colombian
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John Alexis Guerra Gómez
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Chief Sofware Officer
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Colombian
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Felipe Restrepo Calle
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Chief Technical Officer
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Colombian
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Jose Alfredo Jaramillo Villegas
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Chief Hardware Officer
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Colombian
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Jaime Hernández
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Mentor
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Colombian
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Concept
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The IRIS Project is a system that allows a visually impaired person to perceive all kind of images, forms, figures and colors using their hands, like no other system in the world do.
In this moment, the main goal of the project is to enable visually impaired children to access visual resources with the same or better quality that the ones given in a regular classroom. This is accomplished by the use of database of categorized pedagogical images (geometry, biology, history, etc), that the child can perceive using the IRIS device.
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Mission
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DUTO is an organization that develops engineer solutions of high level of innovation, but with social function, aimed to the sectors of the society that are normally socially excluded because of the lack of access to the technology. Therefore Duto works for the reduction of the digital gap in our society.
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Talent & Innovation
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The visually impaired children are common people that have the same rights to access to good levels of education; nevertheless, they are daily discriminated because the traditional pedagogical process is mainly based in images that the blind children can't see. The IRIS project is the only solution available in the market, which enables visually impaired children to access to a better level of education by the use of a system that enables him to see pedagogical images composed by figures and colors using his hands.
A teacher that counts with the IRIS Project in his classroom can give to his visually impaired students, better levels of education because he doesn't need anymore to manually make traditional pedagogical tools like embossed paper that he had to prepare the day after the class. The IRIS Project has a database of images with thousands of pedagogical images cataloged by knowledge subject matter areas that considerably increases the resources available to the students.
The state of art of the technological pedagogical tools for the visually impaired are limited to the screen readers and other devices that translate dynamically text to braille so a blind person can read what the texts of a computer screen. In the no technological area, there are used all kind of resources like the abacus to teach the common concepts to the visually impaired population, however there not exists any system for the blind to clearly understand the concepts that require interaction with graphics like the geometry. The IRIS Project is then a never been seen project that aims this market niche with a system that technologically is over the edge by the use of hardware and software that combined produce a revolutionary product.
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What we can contribute to other entrepreneurs in the Americas
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DUTO – Social Engineering is a company made up by a team of young entrepreneurs that are also high profile professionals, that have been developing a lot of experience in project's formulation and in the entrepreneur process in such a way that are a model to follow and that have to much information and experiences to share. We actually like to share all the tips and advices that had made our company to the success.
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Contact Information
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Website
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www.duto.org
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Email:
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info@duto.org
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Phone
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(57)63216899
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Address:
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Cra 31. # 15-87, Polo de Desarrollo Tecnológico, Barrio San Luis, Pereira/Risaralda/Colombia
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