SINGAPORE - An app has been launched to crowdsource data to map out barrier-free routes, which will make it easier for wheelchair users to navigate around different parts of Singapore.
The Straits Times first reported on SmartBFA in 2018, when it had set out a goal to have a functional mapping app by mid-2019. Since then, the team has held 32 Wheel the Ground sessions in the last two years, where they recruit volunteers - both wheelchair and non-wheelchair users - who spent several hours each time combing an area to locate barriers and recording them through the app. They were split into pairs, with one person sitting on a wheelchair and the other pushing it.
SmartBFA is partially funded by SGEnable’s Enabling Lives Initiative. The project was on pause in 2020 as there was no funding, and the team is currently applying for its next round of funding. Not all the volunteers are wheelchair users - only about 20 per cent of them use a wheelchair on a day-to-day basis.
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