ATscale brochure

Assistive Technology (AT) enables people to live healthier, more productive, independent, and more dignified lives than before and to participate in education, the labour market, and their communities.

Today, 2.5 billion people globally need to use at least one type of assistive technology, such as wheelchairs, hearing aids, prostheses, eyeglasses or digital services.

In low-income countries only 10% of people have the assistive technology they need, in stark contrast to the 90% of people in need in high-income countries who do.

ATscale, the Global Partnership for Assistive Technology, is a cross-sector global partnership with a mission to transform people’s lives through assistive technology. It catalyses action to ensure that, by 2030, an additional 500 million people in low- and middle-income countries get the life-changing assistive technology they need.