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Releases and statements, newest first. Follow them by RSS. Journalists can reach the communications team at press@kiroshi.org.

This year

2026.10.27
Continuity
Continuity has now helped more than 10,000 people with SEIRAN 2 implants
2026.10.14
Standards
Draft standard on private provenance for ocular capture opens for public comment
2026.10.08
World Sight Day
World Sight Day: 236 schools in Nepal and Bangladesh screened in a single day
2026.09.15
Grants
Grants for implant aftercare clinics: 2027 round now open
2026.07.30
Annual report
Annual report 2025–26: the year in figures, and a change in how we count outcomes
2026.06.26
Governance
Professor Achieng Otieno elected chair of the Board of Councillors
2026.03.12
Sight restoration
One hundred thousand cataract operations in western Kenya

Archive

2025.11.20
Statement
Statement on Blackwall’s evaluation of SHIKAI 4
2025.08.19
Shared Sight
Shared Sight passes 60,000 donors, and publishes its first audit
2025.04.07
Fellowships
Twelve Kiroshi Fellows begin their year in Tokyo, Nairobi and Lalitpur

Archive

2024.12.09
Partnership
Firmware for discontinued implants to be preserved with Frothly’s Lazarus archive
2024.09.24
Standards
KF-OS 2, the bystander privacy standard, reaches version 1.0
2024.03.18
Implant safety
Independent Implant Register publishes its eighth annual report

Archive

2023.10.30
Statement
Kiroshi Opticals agrees to independent evaluation of its perception models
2023.05.22
Mieru
Mieru screens one million people in a year for the first time

Archive

2022.11.01
Shared Sight
Shared Sight: implant wearers can now donate anonymised vision data to research
2022.06.01
People
Dr Okabe Sena appointed Executive Director

Archive

2021.09.27
Partnership
The Foundation and Frothly begin a research partnership on optical implants