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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 …
Kenyan entrepreneur Su Kahumbu launched iCow as a voice hotline for dairy farmers, then rebuilt it as SMS/USSD after learning what her …
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 …
Denmark's Agency for Digital Government combines automated WCAG 2.1 scanning via the open-source QualWeb tool with manual in-depth testing of forms and …
Kaqchikel Maya traditional midwives co-created the pictograms and audio prompts of a low-literacy smartphone app that screens pregnancies for danger signs; a …
Simprints and JSI built fingerprint ID into Ethiopia's community health data system, letting Health Extension Workers serving low-literacy populations without formal ID …
BancoSol's AppSol added GanaSol, a gamified points-and-prizes layer, to nudge low-literacy microfinance clients into digital banking. Three years after its March 2021 …
Spun off in 2019 from the American Printing House for the Blind, GoodMaps replaces beacons and GPS with camera-based computer vision for …
SK Telecom's AI Care places a voice-activated Nugu speaker in the homes of seniors living alone, flagging distress and looping in a …
Founded in Karachi in 2018 by a deaf engineer and two blind co-founders, DeafTawk connects Deaf users to interpreters via app and …
Since 2015, Davao City's Virtualahan has trained persons with disabilities and other excluded groups as digital freelancers via an online, universal-design curriculum; …
CAST's Universal Design for Learning framework asks designers to build multiple means of engagement, representation and expression into digital curricula from the …
Google Research trains speech-recognition models to understand atypical speech (ALS/MND, dysarthria, Down syndrome, stuttering) using samples donated by people with impaired speech, …
Refused commercial coverage, a community on Vanuatu's remote Maewo Island built its own US$6,000 satellite network in 2016. Within six months health …
A nonprofit consortium's free, open-source software lets people store personal accessibility settings in the cloud and apply them with one click on …
Swiss Federal Railways and the University of Basel co-designed 'SBB Inclusive', a Bluetooth-beacon and GPS app closing the real-time information gap for …
An EU Horizon 2020 project (2021–2024, €5.9M) co-created a smart-home AI ecosystem — a Digital Care Facilitator and conversational agent — with …
Lagos-founded startup pairs AI accessibility diagnostics (AdaptiveWiz) with a marketplace of over 5,000 disabled consultants (AdaptiveTest/AdaptiveAlly) who validate WCAG compliance, turning accessibility …
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