Launch Of Project Nemo Marks Step Towards Better Fintech Disability Inclusion
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Project Nemo, an industrial plan to help fintech companies better serve disabled people in the UK, has been launched.
The plan will last for 12 months, to make sure that fintech companies include disabled people in their operations. It will focus on long-term systemic change in three ways by educating, helping, and showing disabled people how to become successful in the fintech space.
Project Nemo Is Positioned To Promote Inclusion In Fintech
Project Nemo wants to help people understand the barriers that prevent disabled people from being included in fintech. It also wants to bring together leaders in fintech, allies, supporters, and people who know what it’s like to have a disability.
The project will share tools and knowledge to help make workplaces, products, and services available to everyone.
In the UK, more than one out of every five people are living with disability and spending about £274 billion each year. Also, 24% of working-age people in the UK have said they have a disability. This shows that not many disabled people have jobs in UK fintech.
A big part of the plan is Project Nemo’s Fintech Festival of Inclusion. It’s a series of events to help fintech leaders learn how to include everyone for a long time. Each event will have workshops where experts on disability and successful stories from fintech will come together, to help leaders make changes.
Project Nemo Will Address The Low Rate Of Disability Employment In UK Fintech
The Chief Executive Officer of Innovate Finance, Janine Hirt, highlighted the support from numerous groups such as Innovate Finance. Innovate Finance, known to be the industry body for UK FinTech, is happy to help Project Nemo.
The introduction of Project Nemo was officially revealed to everyone by Joanne Dewar, a disability inclusion champion and a leader in fintech.
Dewar, who leads Project Nemo, stated that the project that began as a mere talk a year ago has quickly picked up speed, and now, in just a few months, it is starting at IFGS.
He highlights his enthusiasm for fairness and has included everyone in fintech. But he has never seen such clear support and personal connection to one issue, including disabled people.
Dewar further stated that many experts believe that Fintech is the future of financial services and the team has done a lot to make things easier, reach more people, and make things cheaper.
But if his team wants everyone to use fintech, the team has to make sure their offices, everything they make, and all their services are easy for everyone to use.
