Build2Gether 1.0 Innovation Contest
By
Cyrille Grumbach
Jacqueline Lane
Georg von Krogh

We launched a global innovation contest to tackle the everyday challenges still faced by people with disabilities—needs that too often fall through the cracks of existing solutions. The response was powerful: 776 innovators joined forces to create 194 open-source solutions that were not just ideas, but fully built and shared. What made this unique was how it started—not with ready-made thoughts, but with real collaboration. Innovators worked directly with people with disabilities, not as mere end users, but as co-creators. That’s the heart of Build2gether: making disability innovation open, inclusive, and driven by those who live it. The result? Over 250,000 downloads and a growing community built on shared problem-solving.
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