Social (Business) Innovations
Affordable glasses
Onedollarglasses offers a solution for deprived people to enable clear sight: The glasses cost 1 US$ (material costs) and are manufactured locally without requiring electricity:
https://www.eindollarbrille.de/en/home
Mobility/ Wheelchair
Wheelmap: It is an open scource plattform showing, which locations (trainstations, supermarkets,...) are accessible for wheelchairs worldwide. The map is designed in German.
https://wheelmap.org
Mobility/ Communication/ Mental Disability
BlueAssist: It is an app accessible in Belgian, which helps handicapped people find their way, i.e. when they use the bus or the train. It is especially designed for people having mental disabilities or problems in terms of communication. The app shows questions like: "I have to leave at the station xy. Can you give me a sign, when we arrive?" Messages like this can be shown to travelers, so that they can be helpful.
https://www.blueassist.eu
Autism
Auticon employs people with autism as technology consultants:
https://auticon.com
Blind people
The dialogue in the dark offers an exibition on the life of blind people and creates job opportunities for them working as guides. The social enterprise "Dialogue Social Enterprise" offers replication through a franchise model:
https://www.dialogue-se.com/what-we-do/dialogue-in-the-dark
Discovering hands trains blind women to become experts in order to detect breast cancer:
https://www.discovering-hands.de/international/page-international
Colorblindness
ColorADD is a language to help the color blind identify colors:
https://www.coloradd.net/en/
Deaf people
The dialogue in silence offers an exibition with regards to the life of deaf people and creates job opportunity for them as guides.The social enterprise "Dialogue Social Enterprise" offers replication through a franchise model:
https://www.dialogue-se.com/what-we-do/dialogue-in-silence
Speaksee offers an app through which one can distinguish speakers in a group conversation by reading coloured messages on a smartphone:
https://speak-see.com
Onedollarglasses offers a solution for deprived people to enable clear sight: The glasses cost 1 US$ (material costs) and are manufactured locally without requiring electricity:
https://www.eindollarbrille.de/en/home
Mobility/ Wheelchair
Wheelmap: It is an open scource plattform showing, which locations (trainstations, supermarkets,...) are accessible for wheelchairs worldwide. The map is designed in German.
https://wheelmap.org
Mobility/ Communication/ Mental Disability
BlueAssist: It is an app accessible in Belgian, which helps handicapped people find their way, i.e. when they use the bus or the train. It is especially designed for people having mental disabilities or problems in terms of communication. The app shows questions like: "I have to leave at the station xy. Can you give me a sign, when we arrive?" Messages like this can be shown to travelers, so that they can be helpful.
https://www.blueassist.eu
Autism
Auticon employs people with autism as technology consultants:
https://auticon.com
Blind people
The dialogue in the dark offers an exibition on the life of blind people and creates job opportunities for them working as guides. The social enterprise "Dialogue Social Enterprise" offers replication through a franchise model:
https://www.dialogue-se.com/what-we-do/dialogue-in-the-dark
Discovering hands trains blind women to become experts in order to detect breast cancer:
https://www.discovering-hands.de/international/page-international
Colorblindness
ColorADD is a language to help the color blind identify colors:
https://www.coloradd.net/en/
Deaf people
The dialogue in silence offers an exibition with regards to the life of deaf people and creates job opportunity for them as guides.The social enterprise "Dialogue Social Enterprise" offers replication through a franchise model:
https://www.dialogue-se.com/what-we-do/dialogue-in-silence
Speaksee offers an app through which one can distinguish speakers in a group conversation by reading coloured messages on a smartphone:
https://speak-see.com
ConnectHear is a social enterprise using technology for sign language accessibility and deaf-inclusion in Pakistan:
https://www.connecthear.org
