Utilizing their unique web-based software, one local Lansing company is helping to make a big difference in the lives of people with disabilities in the developing world.
Digital Active has partnered with Whirlwind Wheelchair International, a non-profit social enterprise that facilitates the production of wheelchairs in developing nations using materials that are available in those locations.
“So instead of selling someone a $50,000 titanium wheelchair,” explains Todd Ross of Digital Active, “they can teach someone there how to build a wheelchair out of the bicycle tires they already have there.”
The genius of the model is exporting information worldwide instead of physical objects, but that is also the challenge as well. That’s when Digital Active became involved.
“We love collaboration with organization who are geographically challenged,” says Ross.
Digital Active’s ActiveOffice software allows
Whirlwind Wheelchair to create a centralized clearinghouse for research collaboration. It will act as a knowledge base and extensive library of reviewed articles for streamlined research and development in several languages to spread the life-changing information worldwide.
“It’s always great to have new business,” says Ross. “But it’s especially rewarding to work on something that has such a noble cause.”
Whirlwind Wheelchair began working with Digital Active in February and now actively utilizing the software to bring information to their partners around the globe.
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