Catalogue: Digital Inclusion clear
Starting from a single WiFi link to Pokhara in 2002, teacher Mahabir Pun and volunteer engineers built the Nepal Wireless Networking Project, …
Viamo's Ask Viamo Anything lets anyone with a basic phone call a free line and ask a question in a local language, …
Founded in 1994 (rebranded at OCAD University in 2010), the Inclusive Design Research Centre runs open-source inclusive-design R&D with ~20 staff, a …
A free, self-directed after-school programme (ages 12-18) teaching coding, robotics, animation, music, film and design across 14 disciplines. An independent Dalberg evaluation …
Since 2004, Norway's Divvun and Giellatekno research groups at UiT have built keyboards, spellcheckers and machine translation for all eight Sámi languages, …
Safaricom's M-Pesa turned basic phones into bank accounts across Kenya. A landmark Science study found it lifted 194,000 households out of poverty; …
Togo built a fully digital, mobile-money cash-transfer system using satellite imagery and phone data to target its poorest citizens during COVID-19, then …
TIC A.C. operates the world's largest community-owned mobile network, covering 63 indigenous localities across five Mexican states; its 2016 Social Indigenous IFT …
Free open-source app and CMS where German municipalities publish local, offline-capable newcomer information in many languages incl. simple German. EC lists 4.5M+ …
GPS app giving blind, deafblind and low-vision users spoken descriptions of their surroundings via crowdsourced map data. Built by Finnish developer Ilkka …
TunapandaNET is a locally hosted wireless intranet built by Nairobi's Tunapanda Institute since 2015 to bring low-cost digital learning and literacy training …
Born from research into why foreign residents died disproportionately in the 1995 Kobe earthquake, Yasashii Nihongo is now a codified plain-language design …
Flowminder and GiveDirectly built a live pipeline that flags displacement from anonymised phone records and pays mobile-money cash within days: response time …
Since 2004, cooperative LinkNet has connected the remote Zambian village of Macha - schools, hospital, homes - via satellite links and a …
Launched in Nairobi in 2019 under the UK-funded AT2030 programme, Innovate Now is Africa's first venture accelerator dedicated to assistive technology. Across …
Since 2006, Palestinian social enterprise Souktel has matched jobseekers to employers by SMS alone — no smartphone or internet needed. A World …
Facing a JazzCash agent network that was 99.9% male, JazzCash iteratively redesigned onboarding around female agents and group events — from a …
Cambodia's first mobile money service redesigned around icon-driven, over-the-counter transactions after feature phones couldn't render Khmer script and many rural, largely female …
Kazakhstan's Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, with UNDP, built a scoring system covering 6M+ families across 120 wellbeing indicators, auto-enrolling disabled, …
A Far North iwi media organisation crowdsourced 300+ hours of te reo Māori speech in 10 days, then built a 92%-accurate speech …
Launched by GDS in 2018, the GOV.UK Design System requires WCAG 2.1 AA components tested with disabled users; three rounds of accessibility …
Since 2015, GSA's open-source USWDS has built WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility into government web components by default; its 2025 VPAT report tested …
Karya channels AI firms' data-annotation demand to rural Indian workers via a smartphone app, paying well above minimum wage. A J-PAL randomised …
A Vietnamese NGO where blind and low-vision engineers lead development of free screen-reader-compatible software (Braille transcription, text-to-speech, e-book reading); Zero Project-recognised in …
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