AbilityNet has announced the winners of its 2026 Tech4Good Awards, honouring projects that use technology to expand accessibility and digital inclusion. The MARS Project was recognised for an AI tool that analyses speech after a stroke, helping clinicians assess aphasia without slow manual testing. Humanos 3D was recognised for training local communities to make and use affordable 3D-printed assistive devices, having already delivered hundreds of devices and trained thousands of people. Dots for Africa became the first winner of a new Financial Inclusion Award. Winners were announced at a London ceremony hosted by IBM on 3 July, with more than 250 people attending in person and online.
Why it matters: These awards spotlight low-cost, scalable approaches, like 3D-printed devices and AI speech analysis, that could extend assistive technology well beyond wealthy markets.
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