Almost a year ago Google announced an initiative encourage the building of “transformative technologies” for people with disabilities. Through the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, Google offered to provide $20 million to organizations who are pushing innovation for people with disabilities. Today the full list of 30 organizations to be awarded funds was announced by Google.
According to Google, the organizations that the tech giant decided to support through this initiative have all committed to open sourcing their technology. The hope is that will encourage innovation in an area that Google says “has historically been siloed.”
Google says they received submissions from over 1,000 organizations from 88 different countries that are working on ideas to aid those with disabilities. Some of the winners highlighted by Google include Motivation UK that will using the funds for 3D printing to test designs for customizable postural support devices and The ProPortion Foundation based in The Netherlands that is developing Majicast, a tool for producing prosthetic sockets that will be useful in developing countries where access is a challenge.
You can check out the full list of organizations and more information about their work at www.google.org/impactchallenge/disabilities/grants.html.
source: Google Europe Blog
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