Innovation Lab

Innovation Lab

Assistive technology plays a critical role in the lives of people with disabilities. Without assistive technology, 77% of persons with disability would be unable to: “take care of themselves, hold meaningful employment or leave their home to attend social gatherings.”

Source: Witeck-Combs Communications/Harris Interactive, 2005

The Assistive technology gap

• Primary driver for the Inclusion of persons with disability
• Increasing gap between mainstream technologies and assistive technologies
• Gap between producers and Consumers

The innovation lab is a collaborative platform to work across government, business, philanthropy, research centers, non-profit organizations and citizens. This is a platform to achieve significant and lasting social change in creating inclusive environments and assistive technology products.

The aggregator platform is setup at two entities

The Solutions Factory or Engine, which drives the

• Research and documentation of the assistive solutions, find solutions and document the same to be released on the marketplace.
• The collaboration tools for solutions development, project management and development life cycle management for realization of a solution.
• Call for solution development, Call for challenges and submission of request for proposals for developing solutions

The Marketplace for Accessibility needs, where the solutions reach to the end user. This is similar to the online retail marketplace, expect here instead of products the consumers shop for accessibility solutions. When solutions are not available or are not suitable, this is fed back to the Solutions factory as a new requirement.