Speaker
Description
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are about 1 billion disabled people around the world, accounting for about 15% of the world's population. However, disabled people in each country are socially disadvantaged and do not receive human life support in their daily lives. Since 2019, we have been carrying out a self-sufficiency project for medical rehabilitation assistive devices with engineering technology to improve the daily lives of the disabled.
While introducing the open source platform for assistive devices in Korea, I would like to introduce excellent cases in Japan and Canada. This makes it easy to manufacture and design daily life aids for the physically disabled if open source is used even without professional knowledge and equipment.
Since 2019, GONGSAENG has been operating an inclusive maker space for the socially disadvantaged, including the disabled and the elderly. I would like to present cases focusing on the university collaboration project and the Laos assistive devices self-sufficiency project that was actually promoted in the field.
References
GONGSAENG Homepage - https://www.gongsaeng.net/
| Keywords | Assistance Devices, socially disadvantaged, the disabled and the elderly |
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