Digital Creativity in Disability

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With a background at the BBC and Onteca making games and traditional apps, Max Zadow established Future Coders and Digital Creativity in Disability to explore innovation and tech in health and social care.

Future Coders’ supportspace is one of ten finalists for Nesta’s Inclusive Living Technology Prize. Working with Worpcloud and Care Innovation, supportspace a multi-platform application connecting those with Personal Care Budgets to with support workers and the Social Services agency that administers funding.

The Inclusive Technology Prize award of £10,000 for the ten finalists will take supportspace from ALPHA to market, helping recruit people needing support and large numbers of support workers, and enabling efficient administration of personal budgets.

Digital Creativity in Disability is also working with two Liverpool SMEs, MCQN and Damibu on WarnDry, a wearable, washable and wireless sensor system to detect child bedwetting. Awarded £100k from SBRI Healthcare the technology being developed with predict, rather than alert bed-wetting, or enuresis.

“Liverpool’s eHealth cluster is about partnership and developing an ecosystem. Different individuals and companies come to the table with different expertise and skills. Together we make a formidable whole.

That reliance and support of each other means we get stuff done, it pushes us to be more ambitious, investigative and innovative to push us forwards.