Breaking the sound barrier
Digital platform for sharing experiences and putting people in touch with each other to promote employment for people with hearing impairments
Phase 3
Type of project: Prototype
Disability concerned: Hearing impairment
Topics : Equality at work
Status: In progress
The prototype is a digital platform enabling the various players involved in the issue of access to employment for people with hearing impairments to share their experiences and resources. The aim is to create a dynamic, responsive ecosystem that optimises the sharing of expertise, both between peers and between different types of player.
The prototype is a digital platform enabling the various players involved in the issue of access to employment for people with a hearing impairment (HI) in a given area (canton of Jura) to share their experiences and resources. The aim is to create a dynamic, responsive ecosystem that optimises the sharing of expertise, both between peers and between the different types of players (people with a hearing impairment, employers, associations, foundations, public services).
The needs identified by the exploratory research are numerous, but in this phase we are focusing on the central problem, which is the isolation of the players and the resulting loss of skills. The prototype is therefore aimed at networking and sharing existing experience (considered as a form of expertise).
The issues of accessibility and multiple acceptability (interface ergonomics) are central at this stage.
The aim of this initial prototype phase is to validate the central finding of our exploratory research: the resources already exist, but they need to be connected in order to create collective intelligence and efficiency (if necessary, we are considering other sources of funding for its implementation as a marketable product).
Finally, this prototype, entirely dedicated to HI, will provide a kind of ‘showcase’ to raise the profile of this issue, which is not sufficiently well known in reality.
