Proposal 

Some of the authors’ most important proposals are:

• organised cooperation to identify the need for assistive technology, its development and long-term support so that new products can establish themselves on the market;
• one national stakeholder should obtain an overview of the solutions under development that can be transferred to a working-life context, as well as initiating and funding research;
• begin systematically collecting practical experiences from professionals and users of how digital and technical aids work and publish best practice;
• modernise assistive technology systems;
• increase opportunities to experiment with forms of work and organisation to assess how technology can support people with disabilities to be part of the workforce and develop in their jobs;
• improve statistics on the number and nature of available assistive technologies for the workplace and how these work; and
• cooperation at Nordic level should bring together the relatively few researchers, R&D projects, innovators, interest groups, etc. working in the Nordic countries, which are individually too small, as greater cooperation may lead to better use of resources.