Inclusive Makeathon: Its Background and the Journey to Holding It in Three South Asian Countries

The Inclusive Makeathon makes use of digital fabrication machines such as 3D printers: teams gathered on the spot create needed tools together with people with disabilities, and the results are released as open source. We will talk about the background to how the ICT Rehabilitation Research Lab (NPO) and FabLab Shinagawa started the Inclusive Makeathon in Japan, and the journey that led to supporting events in Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, including an actual report.