Applications are invited for the MIT Solve Global Challenges 2022 – The Care Economy. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve community is looking for eight technology-based solutions that help care workers pursue safe and secure work, and make care for young children, the elderly, and people with disabilities accessible and affordable in all contexts.
To that end, Solve seeks solutions that:
- Improve access to training and certifications, portable benefits, and labor organizations for care workers.
- Ensure decent working conditions and basic rights for care workers, particularly migrant or domestic workers whose labor may be exploited.
- Enable new models for childcare or eldercare that improve affordability, convenience, and community trust.
- Establish care work as a broadly respected profession, including reducing stereotypes around gender roles.
Special Call: Black & Brown Innovators program
Black and Latinx people, particularly women, account for the majority of the US care workforce facing inequalities in the system. Communities of color in the US also often have less access to affordable formal care for their own loved ones. As part of Solve’s ongoing work on US racial equity, they will select 1-2 solutions from the US working to address these disparities for ther Black & Brown Innovators Program.
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