RADIC Innovation Community
Digital Rehabilitation · East Africa
East African Innovation Community (IC) in Digital Rehabilitation — bringing together professionals, academics, and stakeholders across the region.
As part of work package two, we wanted to build an innovation hub to promote digital rehabilitation across East Africa.
We are happy to invite all interested East African stakeholders — academics, rehabilitation professionals, NGO representatives, and others — to join the newly established Innovation Community (IC).
The purpose of the IC is to promote access to rehabilitation services via digital rehabilitation and develop the skills and ways of working of the members. In addition, the IC ensures that the East African community is involved in the work from the beginning, ensuring that all aspects are discussed and solutions found together.
The IC is a platform for connecting, collaborating, experience sharing, innovating, and learning.
Five principles at the heart of everything we do.
Bringing together rehabilitation professionals, academics, students, NGO representatives, and all East African stakeholders into one unified community.
Working jointly across institutions, borders, and disciplines to advance digital rehabilitation and co-create evidence-based solutions for the region.
Creating a space where every member can share knowledge, best practices, challenges, and successes from their own context and field of work.
Exploring new digital tools, approaches, and models of care that can transform how rehabilitation is delivered and accessed across East Africa.
Fostering continuous professional development, mentorships, research participation, and access to the latest knowledge in digital rehabilitation.
The IC welcomes all interested East African stakeholders.
The Innovation Community is established as part of Work Package 2 of the RADIC (Rehabilitation in Africa through Digital Innovation and Collaboration) project. RADIC is funded by the European Union and brings together 8 partner universities across Finland, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Germany.
The project team conducted extensive work including a Landscape Analysis, a Needs Assessment survey, the Handbook of Digital Rehabilitation, and the Framework for Digital Rehabilitation Competences — all to ensure the IC is grounded in real evidence and community needs.