AbleApp

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Inspiration

Facilitate the movement of people with disabilities around the world

What it does

Builds routes that are perfectly suited to a person's given constraints and helps local businesses adapt to the needs of their clients with disabilities

How we built it

We implemented .NET backend, that leverages OpenStreet Maps API and Flutter frontend, to allow our users to describe in details their commute restrictions, such as limit on stair steps count along the way or preferred terrain type. The users can also report organisations or places, that are not well fit for the transportation, their reports are shared to the social networks, also anonymously having impact on our database. Later that database data along with human and monetary resources collected from social network crowdfunding are directed to fix the most impactful commute barriers and help local businesses to adapt to the needs of their mobile-disabled customers.

Challenges we ran into

Some OpenStreetAPIs(s.a. nominatim) stopped working right before the deadline, so we had to implement an alternative solution under immense time pressure. We also went along way, researching the ressource effectiveness of the crowdfunding system we decided upon.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Despite all the problems finding a unique solution of such an impactful and complex problem.

What we learned

We learned a lot about a vast world of digital health and prosthetic technology.

What's next for AbleApp

We plan to expand our community and collect larger datasets to implement even better adopted route recommendations for our users, to cover a certain community or an entire city in Germany and see our work impact the lifes of wonderful people.