In Wewak and Maprik, East Sepik Province, a tablet-based biometric ID pilot let village chiefs vouch for undocumented residents, enrolling 2,548 people …
Wewak, Papua New Guinea
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%76/100
Sony spent five years co-designing the Access controller with AbleGamers, Stack-Up and SpecialEffect and disabled gamers themselves, producing a modular, table- or …
San Mateo, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%76/100
Israeli company Voiceitt built an AI speech-recognition engine trained on atypical and dysarthric speech, letting people with severe speech impairments control Amazon …
Serbian startup SignAvatar deployed 'TransportSign' at Belgrade's Central Railway Station, using AI to convert real-time public-transport announcements into sign-language avatar video and …
University of Melbourne researchers ran six paid co-design workshops (17 disabled people/carers) with Perth's Carers WA to build ConnectUp, a peer-reviewed, AU$2M+ …
In 2000 Australia's Human Rights Commission ruled the Sydney Olympics website unlawfully discriminated against blind complainant Bruce Maguire, one of the world's …
Sydney, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%76/100
The UAE's 2024 National Digital Accessibility Policy moves federal services from ad-hoc fixes to inclusive-by-design: an 'Empathy Lab' embeds user testing with …
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%76/100
Saudi Arabia's MCIT mobilised 28,000+ volunteer specialists to deliver free digital-literacy training and Arabic-language tech content nationwide, reaching over 7 million beneficiaries …
ITU-led Smart Island programme brought VSAT/solar-powered connectivity and digital-skills training to six villages on Vanuatu's Malekula island, training over 1,000 residents in …
Lakatoro, Vanuatu
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%76/100
Simplon.co offers free of charge training programmes in the digital sector. It empowers and trains underprivileged and unemployed people to tech jobs …
The local projects financed by Choices Programme are defined by local consortia of partners (schools, NGOs, municipalities, etc.) and divided into five …