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Crowdmapping Ukraine's Wheelchair Accessibility

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Ukraine, Citizen Media, Development, Digital Activism, Governance, Health, Human Rights

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At BiggggIdea.com [1] (uk; “Velyka Ideya” – “a platform where people present their projects, and the community funds them”), Oleksandr Telyuk draws attention [2] [uk] to Wheelmap.org [3], a crowdmapping project that allows users to evaluate and mark wheelchair accessibility of various locations worldwide. Telyuk notes that 96 percent of public places in Ukraine's capital Kyiv still lack adequate wheelchair access, and, as for the Ukrainian segment [4] of Wheelmap.org,

[…] Most objects on the Ukrainian map are now colored gray, which means that their wheelchair accessibility hasn't been determined by anyone yet. […]