Abstract
Today, innovation appears as new ideas, creative ideas, new situations in the form of devices or methods. Innovation is also often seen as the implementation of better solutions that meet new requirements, specific needs, or current market needs. Social innovation has special importance among the forms of innovation. This study aims to evaluate social innovation applications for visually disabled citizens in local governments. This study also aims to conduct a registration service review for visually impaired citizens within the scope of social innovation. With the registration service, it is aimed to voice the books in line with the demands of visually impaired members through volunteer readers. This study also evaluates the IMM’s social innovation efforts that provide innovative solutions to their problems. Additionally, this study also evaluated audio libraries for visually impaired individuals, which help them to read books.
Highlights
Mankind has always shown great interest in seeing everything happening around and being able to see makes people comfortable and happy
Local governments are equipped with legal powers and responsibilities by the central government in order to meet the common needs of local citizens within the framework of historical development
Local governments are affiliated with a central structure and take over some of the Nazmiye Kaan, Bussecon Review of Social Sciences 2(3) (2020)08-15 centralized authority to serve the local people and adopt a management style that appeals to certain regions within the borders of the country (Dinc, 2019)
Summary
Mankind has always shown great interest in seeing everything happening around and being able to see makes people comfortable and happy. Local governments are the basis of social innovative practices when it comes to the visually impaired or impaired citizens. The fact that local governments are units that provide the closest public services to the local people reveal their importance. There are people with visual impairments or physical restrictions that can prevent a book from being read by that person At this point, registration services for the visually impaired are an important development in reaching printed materials. This study aims to evaluate social innovation applications for the visually disabled citizens in local governments. In this study it is aimed to conduct a registration service review for visually impaired citizens within the scope of social innovation. How the registration services for visually impaired citizens operating in the province of Istanbul are carried out and the practices related to this subject were examined
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