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The Statistical Office in Łódź  has created three volumes of publications of extensive statistical data (graphs, tables, etc.) in Braille version on a variety of topics, to create the opportunity of statistical education of blind children and youth. Now the publication is published on the internet to make an opportunity for educational institutions for blind children and youth to download and duplicate it limitless.
The Poverty Stoplight (PS) seeks to activate the potential of families to eliminate multidimensional poverty beyond traditional income measures through a self-evaluation tool. PS is used by communities, businesses and governments to support families in assessing their poverty levels and implementing practical solutions, empowering the poor to be architects and protagonists in the process of eliminating poverty.
Better Reykjavik is a co-creation project of the Citizens Foundation, Reykjavik City and its citizens that connects them and improves trust and policy. It’s a platform for crowdsourcing solutions to urban challenges and has multiple democratic functions: Agenda setting, Participatory budgeting and Policymaking. Innovations include unique debating system, crowd-sourcing, submission of multimedia content and extensive use of AI to improve the user experience as well as content submitted.
The programme “Outreach Services: Empowering Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Their Community” empowers persons with disabilities in order to gain independence and encourage the realization of an inclusive social environment that is friendly and caring towards the people with disabilities. It takes a family and community-based social-service model, and the inclusiveness of the innovation also avoids the separation the beneficiaries from their family and community. Compared to…