Amazing Creating a world that works for everyone with Google Impact Challenge Disabilities Amazing Creating a world that works for everyone with Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities , More than a billion people have a disability. And regardless of the country or community they live in, the gaps in opportunity for people with disabilities are striking: One in three people with a disability lives in poverty. In places like the United States, 50 to 70 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed; in developing countries that number increases to 80 to 90 percent. And only 10 percent of people with disabilities in developing countries have access to the assistive devices they need. Last spring, Google.org kicked off the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, an open call to global nonprofits who are building transformative technologies for the billion people around the world with disabilities. We�ve been amazed by the ideas we�ve received, coming from 1,000+ organizations s...
