Publications
Data & Evidence Working Paper Series
Paper 01 – August 2019: Capturing and Creating Value in the Assistive Technologies Landscape through a Mission-Oriented Approach: A New Research and Policy Agenda (PDF)
AT2030 – Assistive Technology Scoping Exercise
Funded by UK AID this publication from July 2018 is focused on mapping and analysis of the innovation landscape around Assistive Technology globally with a focus on low and middle-income countries to highlight potential market failures and to scope out possible solutions.
Product Narrative: wheelchairs
A Market Landscape and Strategic Approach to Increasing Access to Wheelchairs and Related Services in Low and Middle Income Countries.
Product Narrative: hearing aids
A Market Landscape and Strategic Approach to Increasing Access to Hearing Aids and Related Services in Low and Middle Income Countries.
How mobile operators are driving inclusion of persons with disabilities
This case study by GSMA aims to highlight how mobile operators are closing the mobile disability gap and also driving inclusion. The report spotlights two mobile operators that are championing disability inclusion – Safaricom and Turkcell.
Understanding the mobile disability gap
This report by GSMA offers insights on mobile phone access and usage by persons with disabilities in Kenya and Bangladesh.
Papers submitted to conferences
GREAT Summit
Papers submitted:
- Assistive technology innovation ecosystem design: A Kenyan case study
- Overcoming systematic global barriers to assistive technology: A new methodology and quick-start testing through a £20m programme
- Mobile phones as assistive technologies: Gaps and opportunities (PDF)
- ATscale. Establishing a cross-sector partnership to increase access to assistive technology (PDF)
- Applying market shaping approaches to increase access to assistive technology. Summary of the wheelchair product narrative
Papers originally published on: The Global perspectives on assistive technology. Proceedings of the GReAT Consultation 2019 (Volume A, Day 1 and Volume B, Day 2).
AAATE Conference
Papers for the special session called “AT2030: A New Approach”:
- Innovate Now: Creating an Assistive Technology Innovation Ecosystem in Nairobi (PDF)
- Increasing access to assistive technology by addressing the market barriers: A market shaping approach for wheelchairs (PDF).
- AT2030 – exploring novel approaches to addressing the global need for AT (PDF)
- Moulding a New Prosthetic Service Deliver System with the Amparo Confidence Socket (PDF).
- ATscale—meeting the global need for AT through an innovative cross-sector partnership (PDF)
17th ISPO World Congress of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics
- Learnings from the AT2030 Programme for Service Delivery in LMICs
- Prosthetics & Orthotics in 2030 – How will material science and design transform the possible?
Journals
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Speaker presentations
National Conference on Assistive Technology (AT) in Bengaluru, India.
Cathy Holloway’s presentation on the Global Disability Innovation Hub and AT Innovation in India