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DISpot Disabled Parking Spots

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WORLDWIDE PARKING SPOTS' APPLICATION FOR THE DISABLED

A campaign to raise the standard of living and reduce the barriers of entry to travel by car for those living with disabilities.

THE HARD TRUTH

Nearly 15% of the world’s population, almost a billion people, live their day to day lives with a disability. A figure that is increasing in accordance to population growth.

According to a recent U.S. census 19% of the United States is listed as disabled according to a broad definition of the word.

While this on its own is unfortunate enough, most nations and businesses don’t account for this demographic when thinking about transportation.

Most people with a disability can get a driver licence. Even those who can not and drive by car with someone else should have transportation barriers reduced to minimum.

The problem is that parking spaces, especially in cities are often too narrow and too close to roads for many disabled vehicles to park in. The law acknowledges the need for handicapped/blue badge parking but also allows for companies and public parking areas to drastically under represent the population in need, saying that companies only need to provide 5% to 2% of parking spaces as handicapped/blue badge
parking spots. A far way from the 19% of the population in need.

When persons with reduced mobility make a journey they have the same expectations as other people. They expect to be able to leave their house, travel in safety and comfort and get to their destination without any difficulties. If even one component of the journey presents a barrier, then some people will might not travel at all.

OUR GOAL

We want to create a worldwide database to store information about any parking spot for people with disability. DISpot will be a worldwide platform utilizing this database to allow this demographic to quickly and easily find available spots specifically for them through the application. Simply enter your destination and watch as existing parking spaces nearby specifically for you pop up on the map with their specific locations listed.

With DISpot we want to help those with special needs to better plan their trips by car and improve their quality of life. We aim to increase comfort and mobility to anyone with a disability.

Anyone will be able to help the database grow by posting relevant parking spaces on the application. If you see a parking spot with the sign

you can add it to the database within a minute or two: simply take a photo, mark the location, register yourself and upload it to the DISpot worldwide community.

This volunteer platform will allow for data growth and spot recognition for those in need to register and access.

DISpot will be a beautifully designed, proven app built for both iOS and Android allowing for the discovery and logging of relevant parking spaces.

HOW DISpot WILL WORK

DISpot will be free of charge to anyone using it. Once DISpot is downloaded to your device users will be able to easily:

- Search for listed parking spots based on the desired location - once you click find, all stored parking spots up to 500 yards away from the location will be displayed with its own address and descriptions based on Google Maps, as well as the author of each listing’s registration.

- Register as a new user in the DISpot database and add any new parking spots suitable for disabled people with respective features (picture(s) included) that you notice.
It will be possible to review and comment every logged parking space, as well as make changes to other DISpot users contributions in order to continuously enhance the database quality.

The geolocalisation will be supported by Google Maps and GPS on your smartphone.

WHO ARE WE?

We are a team of people currently running www.iparkomat.com

iParkomat is a peer to peer marketplace for renting privately owned parking spaces quickly, flexibly and cost effectively to those in need of a convenient place to park.

The average home parking space & garage is free for near 50% of the time that it would be used during the owner’s work, holidays, weekends, etc. By leasing your unused parking space to others, you allow them to make the most of their daily routine while you earn some extra money. iParkomat is free for registration and easy to use.

We operate in Europe, North America and Australia.Join our referral program and start earning easy money. $10 for every registered space - check it out www.en.iparkomat.com/reference-program

You will find more information about us on www.iparkomat.com

We feel that our background operating in this market gives us the added ability to more quickly and more easily create the DISpot application and we cannot wait to do so.

WHERE YOUR DONATION WILL GO

The money from this donation will go towards developing the best iOS and Android platform possible. A platform that works flawlessly, without fail, that is easy to use and truly helpful.

Your donation will in the end make someone’s life easier.

You will also be featured on our page as contributing to the campaign. If you are a company the company logo can also be displayed.

If we are able to collect more, we will prepare additional language versions of DISpot to make it available to non-English speakers.

Furthermore we will feature parking spots not only for people with disabilities but also for expecting mothers - just in the US over 4 million babies are born each year.

We're super excited to build DISpot for everyone everywhere.

THANK YOU

Please support the campaign and help us to help you, especially those in need. Thank you for learning about the campaign and what you can do to help.

We would love to cooperate with any organization or persons that care about the disabled. Please contact us at [email redacted] if you can help out in any other way.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/en.iparkomat?ref=hl and Twitter https://twitter.com/iparkomat

Let's all people be included!

Organizer and beneficiary

Taylor DeSpain
Organizer
Telford, PA
Hirsh Sisodia
Beneficiary

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