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NOV 8, 2021
Bestapp.com:
The Best Apps for Charitable Giving of 2022
Sep 21, 2021
The Next Web:
How to build tech for good — and turn a profit
SEP 7, 2021
Perkins Global Community:
Danish app Be My Eyes reaches volunteers in 150 countries supporting people with visual impairment
SEP 7, 2021
VOA:
App Helps Blind People ‘See’
SEP 4, 2021
KSAT:
Help people around the world by ‘being their eyes’
Jul 29, 2021
Bloomberg:
The Apps That Are Redefining Accessibility
Jun 21, 2021
Yahoo Finance:
InclusionHub founding partner Be My Eyes was honored with a 2021 Apple Design Award for developing a best-in-class iOS mobile app
Jun 21, 2021
Benzing:
InclusionHub founding partner Be My Eyes was honored with a 2021 Apple Design Award for developing a best-in-class iOS mobile app
Jun 11, 2021
Tech Crunch:
Apple announces its 2021 Apple Design Award winners
Jun 11, 2021
Forbes:
Accessibility-Centric Apps Voice Dream Reader, Be My Eyes Receive 2021 Apple Design Award Honors
Jun 10, 2021
Apple:
Apple announces winners of the 2021 Apple Design Awards
May 18, 2021
Webby Awards:
Be My Eyes is a People’s Voice winner at the 25th annual Webby Awards
Apr 28, 2021
LinkedIn:
Our journey to make LinkedIn more inclusive and accessible
Feb 13, 2021
Los Angeles Times:
Visually impaired face new challenges navigating a world remade by COVID-19
DEC 17, 2020
KSAT:
This app is helping to change the lives of the visually impaired for the better
DEC 3, 2020
BMW Group:
Social Entrepreneurship – Business With A Social Mission
Nov 27, 2020
Galloways:
How the Be My Eyes app allows David to 'borrow someone else's vision'
Nov 25, 2020
Tech Crunch:
What will tomorrow’s tech look like? Ask someone who can’t see
Sep 15, 2020
Bloomberg:
Guide Dogs for the Blind Partners With Be My Eyes to Give Real-Time Video Assistance to Alumni via Innovative App
Aug 13, 2020
The World:
Be My Eyes app makes daily life easier for people with visual impairments
Jul 13, 2020
Sifted:
Tech is failing people with disabilities
JUN 9, 2020
Moms:
‘Be My Eyes’ App Allows Anyone To Virtually Help The Blind
May 20, 2020
Evening Standard:
The volunteer apps to do some good with your free time
Apr 10, 2020
The Boston Globe:
How to lend a helping hand from home
MAR 31, 2020
Now This:
Here Are Some Volunteer Opportunities You Can Do From Home – Guide a Person with Visual impairments through Be My Eyes
MAR 24, 2020
Forbes:
The Power Of Purpose: How Brands Can Work With Be My Eyes To Help The Blind And Low-Vision Community (Part 1)
Feb 21, 2020
Crunchbase News:
Last Week In Venture: Eyes As A Service, Environmental Notes And Homomorphic Encryption
Feb 21, 2020
abc 6:
Blind man able to do everyday tasks with help from Be My Eyes app
Jan 30, 2020
Mirror:
Blind man able to visit father's grave thanks to gesture from kind stranger
Jan 29, 2020
Unilad:
Blind Man Able To Find His Father’s Grave Thanks To Stranger On Video Chat
Jan 29, 2020
Forbes:
Tired Of Business Travel? Try Micro-Volunteering And Recharge Your Batteries By Doing Good
Jan 3, 2020
Diversity in Action:
Be My Eyes - Free app helps blind and low-vision people to be more independent
Jan 3, 2020
EU-startups:
10 promising European startups supporting people with disabilities
Nov 5, 2019
Forbes:
The Power Of Purpose: How Sam Latif And P&G Are Innovating To Serve The 1.7 Billion People With Disabilities Market
Nov 5, 2019
Health Central:
15 Tools That Help You See
Oct 10, 2019
Fashion Network:
Herbal Essences expands tactile packaging for vision-impaired people
Sep 24, 2019
Macular Degeneration:
Be My Eyes: My Handy Dandy iPhone Apps
Sep 19, 2019
Forbes:
An Innovative Way You Can Help Visually Impaired Aging Parents
Sep 17, 2019
Third Sector:
How charities can benefit from the power of micro-volunteering
Sep 2, 2019
Sifted:
Disability tech startups are booming — but so are prices
Sep 1, 2019
Tallahassee Democrat:
Be My Eyes app connects volunteers to help people with vision loss
Aug 29, 2019
El Dorado News-Times:
Students use app to assist blind, low-vision individuals
Aug 21, 2019
Kelowna Now:
It's like having a pair of eyes in your pocket (VIDEO)
Jul 31, 2019
UpWorthy:
People are sharing their heartwarming experiences with an app that lets you ‘see’ for blind people
Jul 21, 2019
WJTV:
Be My Eyes helps blind and low vision people navigate through everyday tasks
Jul 18, 2019
CBS58:
“A game changer:” App helps visually impaired see through volunteer’s eyes (video)
Jul 12, 2019
The Guardian:
I tried Be My Eyes, the popular app that pairs blind people with helpers
Jul 7, 2019
CBC news:
The kindness of strangers: Volunteers use app to provide a helpful pair of eyes to those who are blind
Jul 7, 2019
Evening Standard:
Millions of volunteers sign up to Be My Eyes app to help visually impaired with day-to-day tasks
May 16, 2019
RNIB:
Be My Eyes continues to expand help function to connect businesses to blind and partially customers
May 16, 2019
The Next Web:
The most compelling tech tools to assist the visually impaired
Apr 21, 2019
The Times:
Lloyds staff lend their eyes to blind customers
Apr 3, 2019
Virgin:
Visionary tools -The technology helping people to see
Mar 6, 2019
O2 Business:
Be My Eyes -The future of technology assistance for people with sight loss
Mar 6, 2019
Long Island News12:
App pairs blind, low-vision users with sighted volunteers
Feb 21, 2019
Hosting Advice:
Be My Eyes - A Free App Assisting Blind and Low-Vision Individuals Through Live Video Calls with Sighted Volunteers and Companies
Feb 1, 2019
Times of Malta:
You can be someone’s eyes through your smartphone
jan 28, 2019
WRCBtv:
What the Tech? App of the Day: "Be My Eyes"
jan 27, 2019
The Plainsman:
New app opens possibilities for low-visibility students
jan 11, 2019
Perkins - school for the blind:
Tips for Be My Eyes Volunteers from a Vision Impaired User
jan 8, 2019
NewsChannel 5 Nashville:
Free app uses video chat to help the blind, visually impaired with tasks
jan 2, 2019
Optometry Today:
Pocket perfection - how technology is transforming the lives of those with sight loss
jan 2, 2019
Perkins - school for the blind:
Be My Eyes App Review
Dec 29, 2018
The New Zealand Herald:
Answering a video call is another way to help a visually impaired person
Dec 28, 2018
The Washington Post:
Answering a quick video call to help a blind person is ‘so awesome’
Dec 4, 2018
Samsung:
Celebrate the Season of Giving with these Amazing Apps
nov 27, 2018
Newsweek:
What is the Be My Eyes app? Sighted volunteers can help the visually challenged virtually
nov 27, 2018
PCmagazine:
7 Ways to Donate on Giving Tuesday and Beyond
nov 14, 2018
The Next Web:
Be My Eyes app lets you lend your eyes to a blind person in real time
Aug 29, 2018
Lean Startup Co:
Be My Eyes Helps The Visually Impaired To See
Aug 23, 2018
KLTV:
App allows people with blindness to see through others' eyes
Aug 8, 2018
The Atlantic:
How Technology Can Help the Blind Set Their Own Expectations
Jul 26, 2018
World Economic Forum:
This app lets volunteers lend their sight to blind people
Jul 19, 2018
Japan Today:
Business that lends sight to the blind wins tech award
Jul 18, 2018
Thomson Reuters Foundation:
Business that lends sight to the blind wins tech award
Jul 17, 2018
The Guardian:
How apps have the potential to save lives
Jun 30, 2018
Business Insider:
I used an app to help a blind person work her washing machine - on the other side of the world
Jun 29, 2018
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering:
Be My Eyes Realises the Potential of Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired People
Jun 28, 2018
Metro:
This app lets you be a blind person’s eyes from anywhere in the world
Jun 19, 2018
Wales Online:
A blind Swansea woman is being helped to 'see' by complete strangers she'll probably never meet
May 8, 2018
Evening Standard:
Google picks best apps for Android that you need to download in 2018
APR 20, 2018
El Confidencial:
This is the most useful thing I've done with my 'smartphone' in 8 years: helping three blind people
Feb 16, 2018
The Sun:
Want to help blind people? This simple smartphone app lets you be their eyes
Nov 5, 2017
Lifehacker:
Blind-Assistance App “Be My Eyes” Is Now on Android
AUG 21, 2017
Medium:
Seeing is Believing: A Global Community for Inclusion
Jul 21, 2017
The Boston Globe:
Apps, devices turn their attention to visually impaired
Jun 26, 2017
The Guardian:
From Braille to Be My Eyes - there’s a revolution happening in tech for the blind
Oct 14, 2016
NBC:
‘Be My Eyes’ app let’s vision-impaired people crowdsource sight
Apr 14, 2016
Business Wire:
Zendesk Launches Partnership With Be My Eyes to Support Socially Minded Startups
DEC 15, 2015
NPR:
Help A Blind Person Identify Everyday Things, Via Smartphone App
Apr 29, 2015
New York Magazine:
Product Hunt Predicts the Tech Hits of 2016
Mar 29, 2015
Low Vision Radio:
Interview with the Be My Eyes App Creator, Hans Jørgen Wiberg
Mar 11, 2015
The Guardian:
Charity apps are supporting people and helping to find new volunteers
Feb 11, 2015
CNN Money:
App helps blind people see
Feb 10, 2015
Fox News:
New mobile app offers eyesight to visually-impaired people
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BBC:
Lend Me Your Eyes
Feb 17, 2015
ABC News:
Tech Breakthrough Helps The Blind See
Feb 4, 2015
CBS News:
Be My Eyes’ app helps blind people do everyday things
Feb 3, 2015
Business Insider:
The 13 best new apps you might have missed recently
Jan 31, 2015
The Daily Telegraph:
‘Micro-volunteer’ your time to help the blind
Jan 27, 2015
BBC Radio 4:
Simulating Blindness, Blind Darts, ‘Be My Eyes’ App
JAN 25, 2015
The Daily Beast:
You Can Be a Blind Person’s Eyes
JAN 21, 2015
Fast Company:
This App Lets You Lend Your Eyes To The Blind When They Need To See Something
Jan 17, 2015
Mashable:
If you’re blind, this app makes strangers your eyes
Jan 17, 2015
Russia Today:
Thousands sign up to assist blind via new ‘Be My Eyes’ app
Jan 17, 2015
TEDx:
Be My Eyes Hans Jørgen Wiberg at TEDx Copenhagen
Jan 16, 2015
Hufington Post:
Help The Blind Through Video Chat With This New App
Jan 16, 2015
Tech Crunch:
Be My Eyes Lets You Help A Visually-Impaired Person See Via Their Phone’s Video Camera
JUL 5, 2015
CBS Evening News:
Be My Eyes app brings new meaning to iPhone
