Catalogue: Digital Inclusion clear
3 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: India (25)
Karya channels AI firms' data-annotation demand to rural Indian workers via a smartphone app, paying well above minimum wage. A J-PAL randomised …
Google's offline, speech-recognition reading tutor, launched in India as Bolo in 2019, gives children real-time voice feedback as they read aloud. A …
A missed-call IVR platform lets illiterate, Gondi-speaking villagers in Chhattisgarh record and hear local news without internet or literacy; peer-reviewed research logged …
Bengaluru-based Thinkerbell Labs built Annie, an audio-guided, self-correcting braille teaching device that lets blind and low-vision students learn independently. Deployed in over …
Since 2008, Digital Green has trained community mediators to produce and screen localised farming videos, reaching 2.3 million+ farmers across 10 countries …
AirJaldi Networks builds solar-powered wireless broadband across rural India, registering roughly 200,000 users over 40 networks in nine states since piloting in …
On 30 April 2025, India's Supreme Court ruled that digital access is intrinsic to the Article 21 right to life, and directed …
India's Unique Disability ID (UDID) replaces fragmented paper certificates with one national digital card spanning 21 disability categories, linked to e-KYC and …
Founded in 2004 by Shilpi Kapoor, Mumbai's BarrierBreak employs testers and consultants with disabilities to audit and co-design digital products for clients …
A free voice forum lets Gujarati farmers who can't read record questions and hear expert answers by phone. A randomized trial of …
India's SugamyaWeb lets government departments self-test websites against GIGW accessibility standards; 200+ departments used it to fix 100,000+ issues, even as reporting …
India's PM SVANidhi micro-credit scheme pairs working-capital loans to street vendors with mandatory UPI/QR digital-payment onboarding and cashback. By mid-2026 over 5.5 …
Government-backed Indian digital library giving people with print disabilities free access to accessible-format books. Launched 2016 with 200,000+ titles; by its third …
India's 1.3-billion-enrolment Aadhaar ID leans on fingerprint checks that degrade for manual labourers and the elderly. UIDAI's iris-scan fallback catches many failures, …
India's national rural digital literacy scheme trained 63.9 million people across 81,930 centres in 22 Indian languages, equipping one member per rural …
Launched in 2021, India's e-Shram portal has registered over 310 million informal workers into a national database, but independent reviews find only …
Google India, Intel and Tata Trusts trained rural women as 'Saathis' who taught fellow villagers to use the internet, reaching an estimated …
Since 2009 India's central bank has required banks to serve blind customers on equal terms; a 2014 directive made it binding that …
India's Election Commission embosses Braille signage on electronic voting machines and issues Braille voter ID cards, letting blind and low-vision citizens vote …
In October 2025 Union Bank of India launched Union SPARSH, marketed as India's first Braille-embossed credit card: Braille lettering, a tactile orientation …
Chennai's Avaz built India's first AAC app for non-verbal children with autism and cerebral palsy, localised into six Indian languages. It won …
Since 1999, Bengaluru NGO Enable India has trained blind, visually impaired and other people with disabilities in assistive technology and digital skills, …
Since 2005, Bangalore charity Mitra Jyothi has trained 1,000+ blind and low-vision adults in screen-reader computer literacy; a TCS partnership trained 100+ …
PayU launched India's first RBI/BIS IS 17802–compliant checkout built for blind and low-vision users — full screen-reader navigation, adjustable contrast and text …
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