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 …
Raipur, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%96/100
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 …
Bengaluru, India
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 9%96/100
Since 2008, Digital Green has trained community mediators to produce and screen localised farming videos, reaching 2.3 million+ farmers across 10 countries …
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 …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
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 …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 29%88/100
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 …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 54%72/100
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+ …
Samsung's India R&D unit and the deafblind NGO Sense India co-developed Good Vibes, a Morse-code vibration messaging app, through iterative workshops with …