India – Jammu – Orthopaedic Centre.

Formed over a year ago in Geneva, the Innovation Initiative aims to foster innovation as an institutionally embedded process within the ICRC. Currently, the initiative has spearheaded several pilot programmes in many delegations around the world. Such pilots range from redesigned body bags to telemedicine solutions, quick beneficiary registration tools, to virtual reality tools for training. The focus is on providing better and more efficient services to beneficiaries.

In India, we are primarily channeling our energies towards organising and implementing a `Makeathon Event’ to be held in Bangalore at the end of this year. This event aims at forming an ecosystem of partnerships with corporates (especially technology and medical companies), impact investment firms, social enterprises, non-for-profits, academic and public policy institutions, students as well as with Indian authorities and various State Governments to prototype devices that will address locomotor disabilities in rural India.

The Makeathon has been envisioned as the launching pad for the creation of the latest generation of devices that can be deployed globally by the ICRC to address the needs and issues of beneficiaries affected by locomotor disabilities, while making these same instruments affordable for the ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ demographic worldwide.

To know more –

www.redinnovation.org

www.enablemakeathon.org