Prosperity4All – Designing a Multi-Stakeholder Network for Economic Inclusion

Abstract

People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by systemic global economic problems such as digital exclusion, income disparity, unemployment and poverty. The Prosperity4all project, an international consortium supported in part by the European Union FP7 program, is seeking to address the economic exclusion of consumers and producers at the margins, including people with disabilities. This article discusses the economic or business design models being considered in this emerging initiative. Like the work that the platform supports, the platform itself must be designed for diversity.