Africa: Feature-Access All Areas? Using Data to Help the Disabled Navigate Cities

Barcelona — Entrepreneur Josep Esteba became so frustrated trying to get around his native Spain in a wheelchair for more than 20 years that he embarked on a mission to map cities for disabled people all over the world.

"Many years ago I travelled a lot for work, and would arrive in cities that I didn't know very well," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "That's when I realised that there just wasn't information for those that needed it."

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