Under the EU-funded STREIT PNG Programme, ITU and FAO built five solar-powered digital resource centres across East and West Sepik provinces (2023-2024), …
Three Saudi government bodies jointly launched a Digital Inclusivity Programme in November 2023 targeting WCAG 2.0 AAA and an assistive-technology readiness centre. …
Since 2015, University of Cape Town researchers and small-scale fishers have co-designed the ABALOBI app suite — large icon-based controls usable with …
Founded in Osaka in 2010 by wheelchair user Toshiya Kakiuchi, Mirairo built a smartphone-based digital disability certificate now used by 4,200+ partner …
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 …
Giga (UNICEF-ITU) helped Kyrgyzstan build a real-time map of internet connectivity at all 2,137 public schools. The transparent data let the Ministry …
Senegal's CNAO, WHO, UNICEF and ATscale are building a $2.5M national assistive-technology system — training 61 fitting specialists, standing up 7 regional …
A government-convened, multi-stakeholder working group produced Sierra Leone's first national assistive technology policy, strategy and product list, with its network effects independently …
Lazarillo, a University of Chile (ISCI) spin-off launched in 2016, is a free voice-guided GPS app built with blind users on the …
AlterMundi, an NGO founded in Córdoba, built the QuintanaLibre community mesh network in the Paravachasca Valley, then designed the open-source LibreRouter and …
Microsoft's free Seeing AI app narrates text, currency, people, barcodes and scenes in real time through a phone camera for blind and …
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 …
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