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Kenya

A person on a wheelchair on an uneven rocky path with grass patch and walls along the path
India | Indonesia | Kenya | Mongolia | Sierra Leone

AT2030 Inclusive Infrastructure

Participatory case studies on inclusive design and accessibility in cities. Creating enabling environments and infrastructure for assistive technology users through inclusive design.

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A woman wearing headphones using a smartphone
Africa | Kenya | Uganda

AT Impact Fund

The AT Impact Fund was established to better enable frontier technology solutions to reach people with disabilities in Africa, and to test business models that are most likely to succeed. Assistive Technology Impact Fund is operationalised as a collaboration between GDI Hub, Brink, and Catalyst Fund, providing deep expertise in AT, innovation and venture-building in Africa respectively.

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A person wearing a virtual reality headset adjusts it with their hands.
India | Kenya | Global

Furthering user centred design for assistive technology around the world

Innovation is happening across the world in all fields, and developing solutions for people with disabilities is a compelling area to innovate in. Yet in many cases, the intended users of new innovations are not meaningfully involved in the design process. Postdoctoral researcher Tigmanshu Bhatnagar is working on a programme of activity to make user centred design a central part of assistive technology innovation.

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Discussion group sitting in a circle
India | Kenya | Sierra Leone | South Africa | Turkey | Uganda | Syria

Lean Impact Measurement for AT: capturing the changes in the quality of life

Measuring the impact of AT on the lives of people with disabilities.

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Two people are sitting on a bench next to each other. One is trying on a prosthetic leg while someone sits in front of him and supports him. The participants' faces are blurred.
India | Kenya | Nepal | Sierra Leone

Local Systems Strengthening

This project is investigating the potential to strengthen local systems of AT provision and innovation to address gaps in service. Where could more localised product and service innovation complement global supply chains to unlock more sustainable and resilient AT ecosystems ? We believe there is an opportunity to create better connections between the AT community and local manufacturers, with both newer digital and traditional fabrication expertise to enable innovation and better support for AT users beyond initial provision.


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Kenya

Innovation Action: a collaborative initiative to map global AT resources

Innovation Action is a collaborative initiative, launched by a consortium of partners brought together by innovation catalyst Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), led by UCL Engineering and funded by UK Aid through the Frontier Technologies Hub and AT2030 programmes Our purpose is to bring people together to innovate on global challenges. We provide a space to enable people from all over the world to identify challenges and collaborate on solutions to help address some of the world’s most pressing problems.

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Group of wheelchair users and I2I project staff
Bangladesh | Kenya

Innovation to Inclusion: i2i

i2i was a three-year programme focused on technological initiatives that directly improve access to paid private sector work for people with disabilities in Kenya and Bangladesh.

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A group of four people, two men and two women, are gathered around a table. A man in a green t-shirt is sitting on the left, gesturing with his hands as he speaks to the others. In the center, a man in a white shirt and a woman with dark hair are leaning over the table, looking at an object. On the right, a woman in a red and yellow dress and a yellow headscarf is holding a white, curved object in her hands. She is seated, while the others are standing or crouching. The setting appears to be a workshop or studio, with various objects and tools visible on shelves and tables in the background.
Kenya

Changing Prosthetic Service Delivery with Amparo

The GDI Hub, as a part of the AT2030 Programme, partnered with Amparo to support them in carrying out a clinical trial to evaluate how the Amparo Confidence Socket could help the provision of lower limb prosthetics in Kenya.

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A technician is placing a 3D printed lateral postural support to the backrest of a wheelchiar
Kenya

Digital Technology, to Revolutionise Wheelchair Provision with Motivation

As part of the AT2030 programme, the GDI Hub supported Motivation in testing their new wheelchair provision system in Kenya to evaluate the quality of the new designs and understand how distributed manufacturing through 3D printing could augment current wheelchair service provision models.

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