Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM), a global not-for-profit movement originating in Israel aimed at changing the lives of people living with disabilities, is coming to Australia for the first time this November, bringing together engineers, designers and coders (‘Makers’) and people living with disabilities (‘Need-Knowers’), to build real solutions in a 72 hour ‘Makeathon.’
The Makers and Need-Knowers will join forces in teams and work intensively together for three days, looking for an outcome that may ultimately change the lives of thousands of people living with disabilities the world over.
The Makeathon will take place over three days from Monday November 28 to Wednesday November 30 at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Teams will be given a brief and then 72 hours to find a solution. All plans and prototypes created become freely available online.
Read the article in the Australian Jewish News.