Paolo Badano

3 AUGUST 2019 – On 22 and 23 August WHO held a global consultation on assistive technology to gauge global demand and supply, bottlenecks to access and ways to improve the availability of quality-assured, affordable assistive products for everyone who needs them. Assistive products include hearing aids, wheelchairs, communication aids, spectacles, artificial limbs, pill organizers, memory aids and other essential items that improve quality of life. Everyone will need an assistive product or more eventually, but people living with disability…

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There is no growth that has not been built through mistakes, defeats and disappointments. I think that Europeans are used to giving failure a negative connotation, to blame and to hide. I say Europeans, because the attitude of Americans towards bankruptcy is decidedly less demonizing. I personally experienced failure: it meant for me to test my dreams and realize that I can be stronger than adversity. The company GENNY MOBILITY SA, founded by me in 2011, went bankrupt in 2017,…

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We happen to see more and more devices that use self-balancing technology and that are used from people with reduced mobility. This is certainly a confirmation that in the world there is a need to invest in alternative technologies than into traditional wheelchairs and Genny was undoubtedly the first to go this way. In my opinion, two major serious dangers are lurking. The first is undoubtedly the idea of ​​being able to independently purchase a self balancing base and build…

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Un titolo importante per un problema importante dei nostri giorni. Vengono prima la idee o i soldi, il contenuto o il contenitore? Insomma: chi deve salire sul gradino più alto di un’ azienda per indicare la direzione giusta da intraprendere… l’imprenditore o la finanza? Oggi appare ovvio che chi comanda un’impresa debba essere quello che  dispone delle risorse economiche, ma, anche se può apparire una banalità, in un passato non troppo lontano non era proprio così. Nel passato, un imprenditore illuminato…

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  Dopo una naturale risata, pensando a cosa possa aver provato quella donna  nel vedersi scippare da un disabile, ho realizzato che quello che ho sempre sostenuto riguardo allo stereotipo della persona in carrozzina sempre buona a prescindere è sostanzialmente falso. La sedia a rotelle, a mio parere, non migliora o peggiora la persona ma di fatto lascia solo quel che trova. E se trova un delinquente si avrà un delinquente su una sedia rotelle. La vera differenza la fa la tecnologia, perché fino…

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