Making good on our Purpose of Empowering Communities to Progress, in February we hosted the Zero Project Technology Forum at our UniCredit CenterAm Kaiserwasser in Vienna, Austria. In partnership with the Zero Project, the event was designed to be a driver for innovation aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities.
We invited 27 tech innovators to present their latest products to key decision makers from business and international organisations including Microsoft, Google and the World Bank – helping them establish partnerships for potential funding and implementation.
Innovations presented on the day included a keyboard with only 10 keys for people with motor difficulties, an app that translates spoken language directly into sign language, an app that describes the environment for people with visual impairments, and an avatar that sits in the classroom and connects a child who cannot go to school for longer periods of time to both the lessons and his or her classmates.