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Why the enable Makeathon? The ICRC supports a large number of persons with disabilities across the world and has active Physical Rehabilitation Programmes in more than 28 countries. Most of these people – men, women as well as and most unfortunately, thousands of children – are in rural areas and from less privileged communities. The ICRC’s support and assistance helps many of them cope with their daily challenges and live a life of dignity. The need to promote sustainable and affordable solutions for persons with disabilities is therefore at the heart and soul of the Enable Makeathon.

Goal and PurPose The Enable Makeathon has at its heart intention not just to innovate for new solutions for persons with disabilities (PWDs) but to draw together institutions, individuals and companies to invest in the prototypes. This additional investment is essential to further develop, test, and complete regulatory certification to turn prototypes into marketable products. The final goal is to market these products in India and overseas so that PWDs are able to access and afford assistive devices that enable them to integrate into all aspects of life.

What is it about? The Enable Makeathon aims at forming an ecosystem of partnerships with corporates (especially technology and medical companies), impact investment firms, social enterprises, not-for-profits, academic and public policy institutions, students, designers as well as the Indian authorities and various State Governments to prototype devices that will address physical disabilities in rural India and around the world.

The solutions developed will take the form of early prototypes that effectively illustrate the functionality and potential look of a product, proving that the theory behind the idea actually works. To ensure that the early prototypes can make it to the next level, i.e. be developed further and mass produced for customers, the ICRC along with its partners is reaching out to companies, manufacturers and investors to be part of the process.

Who are the orGanizers?This is a collaborative initiative of the ICRC and several partner institutions, including the Association of People with Disability India, Workbench Projects, IoTBLR Foundation for Pervasive Computing, swissnex India, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.

The Makeathon has also been envisioned as the launching pad for the creation of the latest generation of devices that can be deployed globally by the ICRC and other players to address the needs and issues of beneficiaries affected by locomotor disabilities, while making these same instruments affordable for the ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ demographic worldwide.

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the solution MakersThe 60-day programme taking place between November 2015 and January 2016 is composed of an ‘Online Track’ for teams from all around the world and an ‘Onsite Track’ with a series of events in Bengaluru, India. Teams will work towards finding innovative solutions to nine challenges that would ultimately result in one or all of the following desired results:

� Improving individual autonomy of persons with physical disabilities

� Improving the access to and quality of physical rehabilitation services

� Adapting and using new technologies in a more effective manner

Discover below the different teams and what they are trying to achieve while also addressing the challenges of Enable Makeathon.

team aseem from Chennai (IIT Madras) with Swostik, Sourav Dash and Vivek Sarda as its members is trying to design a compact wheelchair with an outdoor attachment, while in indoor mode, its compact width allows its user to access narrow spaces. The outdoor attachment is a standalone product and can be used with existing wheelchairs to convert them to all terrain vehicles. It can be folded & carried in auto rickshaw, bus or train.

Riyaz H, Trivikram, Indra Sena Reddy, Shiva Kumar and Praveen from Bengaluru make the Mobility india team. They are working towards designing an ‘off the shelf product’ - a low cost, pre fabricated twin device for sitting and standing with adjustable features to cater to the needs of children suffering from cerebral palsy. The assistive device is also said to be cost effective and needs very little space.

The team for bionics Without borders (Wevolver, London) comprises of Cameron Norris and Charlie Ann Vine from London, UK and Abhit Kumar from New Delhi. They are aiming at creating an open source electric powered 3D printable prosthesis, catering specifically to the needs of partial hand amputees from disadvantaged communities, to the same standards as the leading prostheses brands, while using the internationally recognised DASH evaluation criteria as a measure of success. The open source hardware license will enable prosthetists and makers around the world to locally manufacture and maintain high-quality devices at a dramatically reduced cost.

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Soham Ganatra and Ashish Sharma, entrepreneurs from Mumbai, form the team truFocus. They aim to design a wheelchair using Brain Control Interface (BCI) technique so that a person with any extent of disability can operate the wheelchair to attain self-independence at least in activities of daily life.

disha is a team from Kochi with Shaju V Cherian and Dipu K C (from Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram) as its members. The team plans to design an assistive device for those who cannot operate both hands and need help of others for grooming, eating etc. The device is expected to operate by means of winging of scapula enabling the limited movements to operate a device and/or with the lower limbs to operate the device. The purely mechanical and low-cost device can be adopted by PWDs in rural areas as it does not need external power supply.

Nekram Upadhyay and Sonal Khurana from New Delhi form the team isiC-at (Indian Spinal Injuries Centre). Their proposal is to come up with an innovative set of assistive devices (AD) for persons with very limited hand movements. They are developing a set of adaptive AD and supporting splints named My Ability Kit to perform activities of daily living such as brushing, holding mug to drink water, tea etc.

Team dost comes from Chennai and has its members in Jayavel, Sakthivel, and Kothandaraman (IIT Madras). The team comes with an idea to design a universal powered device that will have a navigation monitor, which can be used by the person with disabilities. This device can be bought and placed in the offices of corporate houses and government agencies so that the PWDs coming there can use it for navigation in the office/premises of the host institutions.

kaFo design from Chennai comprises of Ganesh Bapat, Muthu Visvashwaran, Mohan Varma and Soikat Ghosh Moulic (IIT Madras). The team is trying to redesign a semiflexion knee joint prototype (PROTO1) that enables controlled stance phase knee flexion and provides three modes of operation (free; limited flexion; locked) to maintain different body postures while performing various activities of daily living. The team claims that PROTO1 is cost effective, adaptable and easy to maintain but needs to be modified to improve functionality and ease of operation.

From Nagpur comes the team Project lincoln. The team comprises of entrepreneurs Abhijeet Khandagale, Tashwin Khurana, Rahul Patil Borse, Laxman Ingale and Parag Bagde. The team is looking at developing an assistive exoskeleton for people with limb disorders. The exoskeleton simply enhances the muscle power of the user using high torque motors and helps enhance the ‘walk’ of the user. The exoskeleton will be controlled by measuring muscle activity by detecting its electric potential, referred to as electromyography (EMG), will be semi autonomous, initiated by the user and taken over by the machine.

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Naidhroven A, Founder/CEO, nappinnai from Chennai is working around improving his prototype of a small electric mobility scooter that could be operated by PWDs without anyone’s assistance. These special scooters have a battery capacity that allow them to function for nearly five kilometers. The two electric mobility scooters, one for smooth surface and one for hard surfaces like roads are fitted with adjustable seats.

From enability India, Chennai comes another team with Pradeep, Archana. K. Prasad and Dr. Anil Prabhakar as the team members. The team is looking at developing a machine learning algorithm that would use the potential of the current iGest (a wearable device that identifies any movement by an individual, a person with cerebral palsy) for occupational therapy and Paralympics training. For example, iGest can record the right movements, which may be used as a base data to refine every movement to achieve perfection while practicing at a later stage.

A team of students, Primus from Bengaluru has Princiya Marina and Kartik Kannapur as its team members. The team is working towards developing an ATOM based embedded system to analyse the Gait of a person affected by Polio by mapping their body movements with the help of a Kinect camera. Gait analysis is useful for patients with neurological illness like stroke, Parkinson’s disease, ataxia or orthopedic problems like spastic cerebral palsy, amputation and arthritis.

Global hands is the team comprising of Sridhar Srigiriraju, Nitin Bawsay, Abhinav Dey, Narsi Balakrishnan and Shrikant (social entrepreneurs from the Ants Craft) from Bengaluru. The team aims to create an electromagnetic field for blocks used for “block printing” so that the enabled blocks can align themselves to the design on the fabric and the pressure exerted by the electromagnetic field. The expected product is aimed at wider engagement for providing sustainable livelihoods for leprosy affected, burn and polio affected people – a group with which the team has been working for the last five years.

Team sparsh comes from Bengaluru with Rituporna Gogoi, Hrishikesh Boruah and Anand Nagarajan as its team members. They plan to design an assistive device that will help a person with weak lower limb or lower limb amputation to do agricultural/ gardening activities and also everyday activities like carrying a child or a heavy bag. The goal is also to help carry out activities that can provide employment.

sense (RBCCPS) is a team from Bengaluru with Pranav. C. Raman, Dr. Vishnu, Prasad V.J, Dijo John Manavalan, Sai Sidhardh and Dinesh B.K as its team members. The team is looking at bridging the gap between the user and the service provider by tracking and communicating the usage of the prosthetics. It is a compact sensor node that can be attached to any prosthetic type to understand how the device is being used for different activities. Sense can also detect whether the prosthetic device is worn and can infer potential behavioural causes. Future versions may include more sensors to gain further insight for causes of discomfort such as humidity or temperature of the prosthetic.

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Diana Anthony, Angie MacDonald, Patrick Mathay and David Krupa of Quito, Ecuador form the roMP (range of Motion Project) team: University of Victoria (British Columbia, USA), Duke University, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. They aim to create the Hands Free Fit – an independent dressing apparatus for bilateral upper limb amputees. The assistive dressing device is aimed at enabling the amputee to load and don clothes independently.

Stan Baldwin from Aurora, CO in USA makes the 3d-Pt team. He is building further on the concept of designing a device called Helping your hands, a special handle that lets people with grip issues use normal silverware. The idea is to expand on the existing handle with items for education that can help children write and gain independence in school.

Pooja Baraskar, Meghna Bhutoria and Abhishek Nandy make the Makersloft team from Kolkata. Their team aims to design a device that helps people with disabilities find their way that integrates Intel RealSense Camera (Perceives the world in 3D) with Edison so that they are connected and ensure that they are IOT centralized.

Vibhuti Chhabra, Jimit Rokadia, Shruti Mittal and Smriti Mittal of Mumbai constitute the team enablers: IIT Bombay, Federal University of Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), IIT Banaras Hindu University. The team is working on rendering a solution for automation in daily handled equipment to make them accessible to PWDs facilitating in their routine activities such as opening doors, using taps, locking/unlocking, etc.

From Pune, India comes the team called ekansh Mitd : MIT Institute of Design (Loni, India). Team members Anita Narayan, Aparna Modak, Neha Datar and Nehal Tiwari are working towards developing a mobile application that aims at uprooting disability in developing countries. The idea is that the app will record births, doses and milestones and remind health workers at the right time once the pregnancy is recorded, thereby tracking cases of potential disability.

international society of Wheelchair Professionals is a team from University of Pittsburgh (United States). Its team members Anand Mhatre, Sam Waters, Rachel Gartz, Sara Munera and Max Lohss are working towards developing a wheelchair information portal that will include features for efficient wheelchair comparison and selection for service providers, clinicians, therapists and consumers in less-resourced countries. Further, the team also aims to develop a knowledge base, tools and resources that will not only assist in service provision but also promote awareness and improvements in wheelchair design.

From University of Monterrey, Mexico joins the team Mariachi. Team members Andrea Giovanna Gonzalez Tavitas and Francisco Guerrero Gonzalez are trying to create an off-road wheelchair, capable of hitting hard dirt roads, made with basic and inexpensive bicycle components.

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Mahmoud Tavakoli, João Luis Lourenço and Joana Pestana from University of Coimbra, Portugal make the team soft-bionics. This group is trying to use modular, bio-inspired optimal soft technologies for developing high efficiency, safe anthropormophic and sustainable prostheses. Team members claim that the system will be not only efficient and low cost, but also easy to build and assemble.

Maketoenable: JJD Innovations a team comprising of Joyjit Sarkar and Dr Jugal Parekh from Birmingham (UK), Sharjah (UAE) and Vapi (India). The team aims to develop an open platform for designing and making of assistive health technology. The platform will bring design into the hands of many, and making to a local level. Users and clinicians will be able to contribute to designs, professional designers will get global distribution and makers will be local.

Claire Gutermuth, Mohamed Irfan, Nikhil Rajapuram, Ashwini US, Kawah Wong, and Vincent Paas from India, Netherlands and the USA have grouped together to form the team arMs: University of Twente, Singapore Institute of Management. The team is making an effort to implement context specific usage of 3D printed prosthetic hands along with improving existing modes of distribution and create a shared database accessible by volunteers, doctors and patients.

From Brisbane, Australia, team hu-Go comprising of Hugo Riveros and Jacara Desland are aiming at developing a digitally fabricated printed wheelchair for users in third world countries. Their idea envisages that people with disabilities can build their own wheelchairs with the kit that the team aims to develop.

Ankith KV, Ashwath Prabhu, Sujay Nayak and Nikitha Baliga from Bengaluru, India make the team called the helpers. The team is trying to develop a low cost hybrid vehicle using low cost materials and integrate technology involved in the segway or other motorized vehicles so as to create a vehicle that can be used within the community.

Vishnu Rajendran S, Harish Mohan T, Akshay Nagarajan, Anirudh Muraleedharan and Bhavani Rao from Kollam, India make the team ammachilabs: Amrita University. The team is trying to design a wheelchair with bed transfer assistance that will ease the transfer of a person with disabilities from a wheelchair to a bed.

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For further detailsVisit http://www.enablemakeathon.org/ or speak to

tarun sarWal, Innovation Advisor, ICRC - +41 227 303 771, +41 794 381 910 – tsarwal@icrc.org

kunal kirPalani, Innovation Programme Officer, ICRC +91 85 8884 6504 – kkirpalani@icrc.org

andrina beuGGert, Innovation Initiative, ICRC - +41 22 730 37 91- abeuggert@icrc.org

The right Fit Prosthetics initiative is a team from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States. Gary Wall and Rochelle Dumm who make this team are trying to develop the Fuji Foot – a low-cost, multi-axial, energy-storing prosthetic foot that flexes to accommodate uneven terrain yet is durable enough to withstand long treks on foot and high-impact activities.

International Committee of the Red CrossC-6/6, Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi - 110016 T + 91 11 42211000 F + 91 11 42211068, 42211069 E-mail: info@enablemakeathon.org© ICRC, December 2015

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