{"id":39552,"date":"2019-05-30T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39552"},"modified":"2019-05-30T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:24:32","slug":"the-tech-empowering-disabled-people-in-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39552","title":{"rendered":"The tech empowering disabled people in cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>Cities are difficult to navigate at the best of times, but for people with disabilities they can be like an obstacle course and a maze wrapped into one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/787488\/tsgb-2018-report-summaries.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">UK national travel survey<\/a> found that adults with mobility difficulties took 39% fewer trips than those with no disability in 2017. Yet that could change as devices and cities grow smarter. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Assistive tech is playing a big role in the transformation. The global value of the industry is expected to increase from $14 billion in 2015 to $30.8 billion in 2024, according to<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zionmarketresearch.com\/report\/disabled-elderly-assistive-technology-market\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Market Research<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coherentmarketinsights.com\/market-insight\/elderly-and-disabled-assistive-devices-market-82\" target=\"_blank\">Coherent Market Insights<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)Cities are difficult to navigate at the best of times, but for people with disabilities they can be like an obstacle course and a maze wrapped into one.A UK national travel survey found that adults with mobility difficulties took 39% fewer trips than those with no disability in 2017. Yet that could change&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}