Andrés Yépez

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On Rest of World: Tech for disabled people is booming around the world. So where's the funding?
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Jun 2, 2021
Location: Ibarra, Ecuador
Assignment for tech publication Rest of World with text by Devi Lockwood.

Unlike many other technologies that are intended to help people, assistive technology changes lives; but until companies recognize its potential, proposals and innovations will stay at the fringes.

May 20 was Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Rest of World wanted to ask about the future of assistive technology initiatives in developing countries like Ecuador.

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