Connecting skilled volunteers and the curious to those in our community facing accessibility barriers - to co-create solutions that make everyday life more inclusive in the Albury-Wodonga region.
Accessibility challenges are everyday barriers that reduce ease, independence or inclusion - physical, cognitive, sensory or situational. Many are small, practical problems that fall outside the scope of traditional services or funding models.
At the same time, there are skilled people in our community who seek purpose and find real reward in seeing their experience create direct, human impact through technology beyond their day-to-day work.
To design and build community driven tech solutions that make everyday life easier and more accessible for people living with disability, illness or age-related limitations - connecting local makers, engineers and students to real world problems and the people who live with them.
Offering your experience and skills for the benefit of real people in our community - because you can.
Mentor and grow emerging talent in Albury-Wodonga through hands-on, purpose-driven work built upon a culture of knowledge sharing and opportunity enablement.
Learn more →Hobbyists, hackers, and students working alongside experienced professionals and community members on real problems that matter.
Gain exposure to processes and workflows used in industry.
Learn more →Not limited to those living with disabilities, illness or frailty.
Bring us a real-world, everyday challenge and we will work with you to co-create a simple, practical and inclusive solution that improves daily life.
Learn more →We listen carefully to understand the accessibility challenge being faced by members of our community, involving beneficiaries of these outcomes as much as they want to, but keeping them informed throughout.
We work together to analyse, understand and define potential solutions. Identifying opportunities to build upon existing systems or services over diving head first in to new development.
If determined that a bespoke technical solution is feasible to solve the challenge, we will build it. Software, hardware, fabrication developed by local engineers, makers, students and hobbyists working side by side to create something desirable and purposeful.
Everything we create is shared openly and freely - we do this because we can and if our work could be impactful to someone outside of the Albury-Wodonga community, our platform enables that.
We're just getting started and looking to gauge interest and build a community around this initiative. Your involvement - whatever form it takes - is what will shape the culture of the initiative.
If you have technical, creative or problem-solving skills - or you're curious and want to learn - there's a place for you here.
Help us understand the accessibility challenges that matter most in our region. Your lived experience and insights will guide our focus.
Developers, makers, engineers, designers, students, hobbyists - tell us about your skills and how you could help develop practical solutions for real people.
Help establish our core values, principles, and approach. Not an engineer or technical enthusiast? Contribute in other just as valuable ways to promoting the cause, event facilitation and coordination, community engagement, etc.
If something in your everyday life is harder than it should be - and you think a simple or technical solution could help - we want to hear from you.
You don't need to know the solution. We'll work with you to understand the challenge and co-create something practical and inclusive.
Border Access Labs will be the technical engagement hub of the initiative - a space for collaboration, design brainstorming sessions, and community meetups online and in person. Practical workshops and brownbag sessions for knowledge sharing promote skill development of talent in the region, for employability prospects or personal growth.
Got an idea, challenge, want to contribute or just curious about what we're doing? Reach out.
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