The Equal Opportunities Lab
We will support the following themes
Enabling Agency of Women
- Women-first models that help bridge the digital and technology divide
- Models and networks that promote women entrepreneurship
- Platforms and services that offer knowledge, networks, and tools to enable agency and improve overall quality of life
- Knowledge and narratives to share impactful models and encourage action
Empowering Persons with Disabilities
- Models that enhance availability, accessibility, affordability of assistive technology solutions
- Models that enable PWDs to lead a more dignified, independent, meaningful life
- Knowledge, narratives, policy, incubators, pilots that address systemic barriers to inclusion
Building Under Served Regions
- Invest in under-developed regions with low SDG scores (e.g., NE, other backward regions)
- NP & FP models that enhance living conditions, livelihoods, and life outcomes
- Ecosystem plays – incubators, accelerators, networks (NP & FP)
- Pilots and government capacity building to build critical development infrastructure
Supporting the Elderly
- Elder-first models offering financial security, safety, wearables, portable medical devices, senior living facilities/services, emergency and care giver services, social well- being, employment
- Age-based tech models that enable the elderly to be part of the digital marketplace/ecosystem