Ipsum Technologies aims to empower persons with disabilities through digital skills training and remote employment opportunities. Their online platform will eliminate barriers to traditional employment by allowing persons with disabilities to access work remotely. They are seeking $300,000 to develop this platform, launch marketing, and hire staff. Their goal is to create economic opportunities for the estimated 1 billion people worldwide with disabilities, 470 million of working age, who currently have low employment rates and high poverty.

1. Digital Inclusion for a Better World
smelville@ipsumtechnologies.org,+1(868)725-4068
Shawn Melville, Managing Director

2. Our Mission
To create opportunities for persons with disabilities to thrive
in the growing digital economy by empowering them with
digital skills training, employment and access to technology.

3. people in the world have a disability
ONE BILLION
An estimated
are people of working age
470 million
Did You Know?

4. Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical,
mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with
various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in
society on an equal basis with others.
UN Definition for disability and UNCRPD

5.  Medical Model
 Social Model
 Functional Solutions Model
 Social Identity Model
 Charity/Tragedy Model
Theoretical Models of Disability

6. Less than
20%of people with disabilities are
currently in employed
An estimated
82%
of all people with disabilities live beneath
the poverty line
AND
The Problem

7. ECONOMIC LOSSES
related to disability fall into a band between
3 and 7 percent
of GDP.

8. Our Solution
An accessible online platform that will enable persons with disabilities to
access digital skills training and employment.
This eliminates the cost of commute to
traditional employment and removes
infrastructure barriers that hinder
persons with disabilities from being
hired by businesses as employees and
service providers.
Employers will be able to cost
effectively outsource work to
knowledgeable and professional
persons with disabilities.
It will create opportunities for
persons with disabilities to access
employment and service provider
contracts in the growing digital
economy.

9. Our Business Model
We offer accessible multimedia and website design services to NGOs and
SMBs utilizing the digital skills of persons with disabilities.
Virtual Assistant Multimedia Editor Web Designer

10. Traction
Since our incorporation in 2014, we have been developing assistive
technology devices, accessible websites and multimedia content, and have
acquired expertise in ICT accessibility.
In October 2019, we facilitated a
full day UN ECLAC workshop on the
topic 'Increasing access to
technology for persons with
disabilities.'
We collaborated with the NCPD
and CTU to host the Digital
Accessibility Bootcamp for
designers, developers, educators,
policy makers and persons with
disabilities which was held in
October 2019.
Our ‘Blind Way Forward’ has been
featured at Carifesta XIII in Barbados,
premiered on TTT in 2019 and
received an award for best
documentary at the 2020 Rollywood
Film Festival.

11. Key Partners
We have key partnerships with the following organisations:
 NCPD - National Centre for Persons with Disabilities
 PAVI - Persons Associated with Visual Impairment
 TTBWA - Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association
 TTAHI - Trinidad and Tobago Association for the Hearing Impaired
 CTU - Caribbean Telecommunications Union

12. Meet the Team
Shawn Melville
Managing Director
Marlon Parieaho
Accessibility Technologist
Candice John
Demonstrator
Asenath Mc Ewen
Business Development
Our team is dedicated to improving the quality of life for persons with disabilities

13. We are seeking
USD$300,000
from an impact investor to develop our platform,
launch an advertising campaign and hire key staff.
12 months
Launch (30%)
Onboarding new hires
Office space rental
UX Testing
18 months
Operations (30%)
Software Maintenance
Monitoring KPIs
Continuous Improvement
Today
Development (25%)
Planning
Requirement Analysis
Design
Coding
Testing
6 months
Advertising (15%)
Social media marketing
Newspaper and Radio ads
Trade shows and missions
Promotional events