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Vulcan Coalition — Employing People with Disabilities to Label and Train AI Datasets

Thailand · Bangkok · See the Thailand profile · See the Bangkok profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 55% 72/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

A Bangkok company employs and trains people with disabilities, including deaf staff, to label and train AI/ML datasets on its own data-labeling platform, putting disabled workers inside AI production rather than only building tools for them.

2,000
People trained in data-labeling with Ministry partnership
1,000+
People with disabilities upskilled via Vulcan Academy
100+
PwDs enabled to work from home via call-centre service
Vulcan Coalition — Employing People with Disabilities to Label and Train AI Datasets

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Vulcan Coalition Co., Ltd.
Period
2020-present
Keywords
AI data labeling, disability employment, digital skills

Context

Vulcan Coalition is a Bangkok-based company, founded in 2020, running an AI/data-labeling business staffed substantially by people with disabilities (PwDs), including deaf employees who label visual and sign-language data for machine-learning models.

Activities

Disabled workers are placed directly inside the AI production pipeline as paid data-labeling professionals on the company's own Vulcan Data Labeling Platform, rather than positioned only as end-users of assistive technology built by others. Vulcan partnered with Thailand's Ministry of Social Development and Human Security to train workers in data-labeling skills.

Results

Vulcan Academy has upskilled more than 1,000 people with disabilities to date, and its call-centre service enables more than 100 PwDs to work from home; the Ministry partnership trained 2,000 people in data-labeling skills.

Conclusions

Only around 30% of Thailand's 1.7 million people with disabilities are formally employed, against a legal requirement that companies with 100+ staff employ at least one PwD; neither source discloses the company's current total headcount of disabled employees, only training and upskilling totals.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Private company; specific budget not disclosed.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Founded 2020; ongoing operations.
Staffing & skills
Vulcan Coalition data-labeling and training staff, Thailand Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (partner)

Conditions for success

  • Placing disabled workers inside the AI production pipeline as paid professionals, not just as end-users
  • A dedicated in-house academy for upskilling

Common failure modes

  • Evidence is corporate/partner-produced, not independently verified
  • Current total headcount of disabled employees is not disclosed

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget

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