The Future We Create: How Innovation Can Advance Disability-inclusive Development

On the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2022, this webinar provided a platform for UNDP's Chief Digital Office, Country Offices, and Accelerator Labs; the private sector, persons with disabilities, and Organizations of Persons with Disabilities to exchange good practices, discuss challenges, and identify solutions in innovation and technology that support disability-inclusive development. The event featured three key topics including the application of human-centred design to identify solutions by and for persons with disabilities, the use of social media to deliver last mile services that reach everyone, and successful public-private partnerships delivering technology-savvy solutions for disability-inclusive local development. The concept of innovation was discussed through the specific angles of digitalization, technology, and infrastructure, and from a people-centred approach.