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Graphic Text Global Report on Assistive Technology (GReAT)

GDI Hub takes the stage alongside Her Excellency Ms. Amina J. Mohamed and Stevie Wonder to launch the Global Report on Assistive Technology
Poster of the event, which reads: Inclusive Design Challenge 1.0 - 6th - 20th June, 2022 - Design solutions for improving access to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for blind and partially sighted people.

Spark Innovation: Inclusive Design Challenge 1.0 is now Live!
3 people strolling through the olympic park. Central person is a wheelchair user.

AT in the UK. Capturing your stories and images; what does AT mean in your everyday life?
A new report into the Disabled Students Allowance

A new report into the Disabled Students Allowance
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Innovate Now, Africa's first Assistive Technology accelerator reignited as Norwegian government backs African innovations
A group of students sat around a table working with an assistive device

Why study Disability, Design and Innovation: in conversation with Cathy Holloway
Global Disability Summit 2022 graphic. Bright green background with white and yellow text "Commit to Change"

GDI Hub “commits to change” at the Global Disability Summit 2022
A young man uses headphones to assist his education

Publication: ICT Landscape review - The use of ICT in improving the educational participation & outcomes
Vibrant and stylised painting of a person in a wheelchair with the caption "I am a beautify machinery of joy!"

Book publication: Disability interactions (DIX), a new approach
A headshot of Iain McKinnon, a white man with dark hair and a beard who is looking towards the camera smiling

Inclusive Environments - Built by Us Interview Iain McKinnon
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Sierra Leone
International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Kenya

International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Kenya
A collage of illustrations showing a blade runner, a sign language speaker, a wheelchair user, and a guide dog user

GDI Hub Celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities
A child is wearing the miraclefeet brace. The brace is attached to his shoes and keeps his feet in a turned out position. The child is being held by his mother and smiling at a clinician, grabbing his hand

MiracleFeet: The human impact of foot braces in Nigeria and Liberia
Black and white photograph of Pascal. A white man looking towards the camera wearing a suit

GDI Hub welcomes new ATscale CEO Pascal Bijleveld
Entimement: multi-timescale sensitive movement technologies

GDI Hub joins the panel on AI-based motion analysis and prediction technologies at the EnTimeMent event on 19 Nov 2021
A headshot of Professor Catherine Holloway in black and white filter

Professor Catherine Holloway at UNESCO: Global Media and Information Literacy Week
9 people are pictured in static elegant poses, dressed in white as part of a performance. Two of the people pictured are wheelchair user and another is holding a crutch

SPIRAL Workshop on Sensing, Feeling, Touching, and Making
Happy birthday 5th GDI Hub Disability Innovation Day 2021 Disability Innovation in every conversation, a look back over the past year

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GDI Hub's 5th birthday and Disability Innovation Day 2021
Lincoln Wamae, Founder of Linccell Technology

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Innovate Now, Africa’s first Assistive Technology Accelerator Announces USD 20000 Prize for First Winner
Monica Munga, a Para athlete from Zambia running on blue track

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Record 49 territories for free-to-air African broadcast coverage of Paralympic Games
A childs legs in plaster receiving treatment for Clubfoot

"The time is now: new report calls for global action for children and adults with clubfoot"
Photograph of Quarish holding a photograph of him as a child with plaster and crutches

Launch of the AT2030 Clubfoot Product Narrative
Cover artwork showing a elderly man and woman

Disability Innovation Strategy 2021 – 2024: How the GDI Hub will deliver its vision for disability justice