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A blind’s trip to own business

Mr. Egidijus Biknevičius Personal phone: +370 659 12522 Office phone: +370 700 700 70

Email: [email protected]

www.etalinq.com CEO Egidijus Biknevičius

Exercise

Let’s start from small exercise.

1. Please stand up.

2. Close your eyes.

3. Turn to your neighbor, take his hand and say hello.

4. Now you know what does it mean to be blind.


About me


• Business owner and CEO of IT company Etalinq.

• More than 12 year experience of IT project management.

• Accessibility expert in technology projects.

• Involved in various social and innovation activities.

Childhood

The most crazy thing I liked to do.


The most impressive adventure in school

Can you imagine a 40 kilometer trip on bicycle

with closed eyes?


Sport in my life

Here you can see my long jump in European

championship of athletics.


My biggest achievements in Sport

Here is our Goalball team award ceremony in Sidney Paralympic games in 2000.


I laid down on the girl when she was making an

exercise.

One funny story in a gym


My studies

I always believe information technologies

can change my life.


Starting my first student business

We opened first computer E-shop in Lithuania.


Say goodbye to professional sport

In 2004, after Paralympic games in Athens, I

finished my professional Goalball sport.


Etalinq was born

In 2005 I started my new company Etalinq.


Services of Etalinq

• Custom software development.

• Websites development.

• Accessibility consultations.


The biggest achievements of Etalinq

• IN 2006 – we finished our first web projects. • In 2007 – one of biggest investment

company in Lithuania made an investment to Etalinq.

• In 2008 – Lithuanian voice synthesis was created.

• In 2008 - National Young Entrepreneur award from “Enterprise Lithuania”

• In 2009 – I became main shareholder of Etalinq.

• In 2010 – Etalinq became first IT company in Lithuania, which was certified under Iso20000.

• In 2011 – Etalinq gained a biggest tender of 625 000 Eur.

• In 2012 – Etalinq finished our biggest project. Virtual library for blind was created.

• In 2013 – Etalinq was certified under Iso9001.


Etalinq clients

Blind and Visually Impaired union

Electronic distributors association


UAB Litamilk

Disability and working capacity assesment office

SERGEL

Technical supervision of construction

Martynas Mažvydas national library of Lithuania

Central project management

agency Statistics Lithuania

Our lovely project

Online library for the blind was

finished during 18 month. Users now can enjoy with his lovely audiobooks with their

computers and mobile devices.

http://elvis.labiblioteka.lt/home/show


Most interesting project in 2014

Our challenge is to create a software by which users could manage computer

by his own voice.


More about this project read here:

httpwww.xn--ratija-ckb.ltliepaenglish

What happens tomorrow?

Now we are working to expand our services

globally.


Recommendations

• ICT is a key to the doors for disabled to enter society and labor market

• We need prepare a list of professions for disable people and support projects where they can obtain one of these competence in all EU countries.

• We need to create a network of disable business owners to share experience with target group.

• Let’s set up special EU program for start ups of disable.

• In each EU country local government should employ 5-10% people with disability from all workers in organization.

• European commission could pay more attention for public tenders from social enterprises.


Thank you for attention


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