Wheelmap Goes London
From an email I’ve just recieved:
Everybody talks about football these days but we already want to look a bit further ahead towards the Paralympics in London. We are the Sozialhelden (“Social Heroes”) from Berlin. One of our non-profit projects is Wheelmap, an online map where any user can share information about wheelchair accessibility of public locations. The principle of this volunteer co-working is similar to Wikipedia. In Germany, users raised more than 200.000 locally based accessibility data during the past 18 months.
Our objective is to make Wheelmap known internationally. We have just recently launched our new campaigning website for “Wheelmap goes London”:
http://blog.wheelmap.org/en/goes-london
We believe that the Paralympics create an environment that makes it easier for us to attract attention in London – and after that eventually in other cities and countries. We know that Wheelmap is extremely useful for mobility impaired people (the founder, Raul Krauthausen, is a wheelchair user himself, see http://www.ashoka.org/fellow/raul-krauthausen). And we strongly believe that more people around the world should benefit from this online tool.
We are quite well connected within Germany but our network in the UK still requires some input and inspiration. Maybe you can contribute by attracting attention to our “Wheelmap goes London” website?
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