05 · Economic empowerment
Digital Inclusion
Every phone already has the tools. Almost nobody has been shown them. And the models being built right now have barely seen us at all.
Two problems live here. Getting people onto the technology, and getting the technology to recognise people.
The first is training. Magnification, high-contrast modes, screen readers, text scaling, dictation. Every mainstream phone and laptop ships with them, switched off by default and buried in settings menus, so a learner with low vision spends years struggling with a device that could have been adapted in four minutes. We teach those settings first, then the skills that follow from them.
The second is representation. Artificial intelligence learns what a person looks like from the images it is trained on, and persons with albinism are close to absent from those images. Ask most systems for a picture of a person with albinism and you get something wrong, something medicalised, or something that looks like a ghost. That is a bias with consequences, and it is fixable at the source. It is why we built the AI Community Library.
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Our areas of work
What we actually do in this track
Assistive settings training
Turning on and tuning the accessibility features already built into devices.
Core digital skills
From basic device use to online services, applications and remote work.
Representation in AI
An open, consent-based image library so models can learn what albinism actually looks like.
Low-connectivity access
Designing our own services so a feature phone is not a dead end.
Impact of this work
The numbers for digital inclusion
Track-level indicators, reported separately from our movement-wide totals so you can see which part of the work is moving.
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Initiatives in this track
Where this work lives
AI Community Library
Built with Microsoft. An image library of persons with albinism that AI builders can train on, so the models finally get us right.
Open InitiativeUVSafe access points
Web, app and USSD, so information reaches people without smartphones. See the roadmap for current status.
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