Catalogue: Digital Inclusion clear
Nigerian edtech Vinsighte built "Visis", an AI-OCR device-and-app that scans text and reads it aloud in local accents/languages for visually impaired students; …
MoMo, Vietnam's largest e-wallet, grew from 10 million users in 2019 to over 31 million by 2022 and captured 56% of the …
In October 2025 Union Bank of India launched Union SPARSH, marketed as India's first Braille-embossed credit card: Braille lettering, a tactile orientation …
Germany's federal DigitalService trains every designer, engineer and product manager in accessibility from onboarding, using a 'How many people?' prevalence tool, a …
Google's free Android app lets people with speech or motor impairments communicate by glancing left, right or up to select phrases from …
BBVA Perú became the BBVA Group's first Latin American bank with an accessibility-focused mobile app for blind and visually impaired customers, building …
M-KOPA finances smartphones for informal-economy workers on 6-12 month pay-as-you-go plans, building a repayment-based credit history. It passed one million customers in …
Apple introduced Accessibility Nutrition Labels for the App Store in 2025, letting developers disclose upfront which accessibility features — VoiceOver, Voice Control, …
A Johannesburg startup built Vulavula, a speech-to-text and text-analysis tool for isiZulu, Sesotho and Afrikaans, so telecom and bank call centres can …
Australia's NDIA and CSIRO co-developed a six-principle framework — user experience, value, quality, safety, privacy/security and human rights — from interviews with …
Since March 2026, Trenitalia has trialled an AI avatar at ticket offices in Milan Centrale and Rome Termini that signs in Italian …
A Turkish nonprofit-incubated startup's sensor attachment turns a standard white cane into a chest-height obstacle detector with turn-by-turn voice navigation, sold in …
A culturally-adapted AI conversational agent delivered sexual and reproductive health education on smartphones/tablets to 160 young women in rural Lesotho; a clinical …
Thai and UK researchers built WebThai2Access, a 15-criterion WCAG-based checklist tool for Thai-language sites, then validated it against real user experience across …
An AI chatbot converting spoken/written Arabic into Arabic Sign Language video, letting deaf and hard-of-hearing Egyptians access health and government information hands-free. …
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 …
Budapest-founded SignAll built computer-vision AI that translates American Sign Language into English text in real time, developed together with Deaf linguists and …
Kenya Bureau of Standards, working with disability NGO inABLE and government regulators, gazetted KS 2952 in 2022 — Africa's first national ICT …
An EU Horizon 2020 project (€5.6M, 2021–2023) led by Dublin City University co-created a sign-language translation app with the European Union of …
A 12-week MIT-led virtual course teaches HTML, CSS and JavaScript to incarcerated students across five US prisons. A 2024 MIT/UMass Lowell study …
A US$37.5m World Bank-backed programme (US$30m IDA grant plus US$7.5m private capital) is building climate-resilient internet, digital government and digital-skills training across …
Norway piloted Utvei, a secure digital school platform (Microsoft Teams/Office 365 plus ~170 whitelisted sites) at Agder Prison, Mandal, from February 2024, …
A free AI/AR app that translates children's storybooks into sign language via an animated avatar, letting Deaf children and hearing parents read …
Be My Eyes, founded in Copenhagen in 2015, connects blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers and, since 2023, AI image description …
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