Becca Hume - TapSOS - Helping the non-verbal access Emergency Service

Today’s Podcast has the incredible Becca Hume, founder of TapSOS, a smartphone app that allows people to contact emergency services in a non-verbal manner. At 16 Becca worked alongside a deaf person in her afterschool job and decided to learn sign language to be able to communicate with him. She spent 8 years learning and has completed British Sign Language level 6.  She went on to graduated from Ulster University in 2015 with a Masters in Multidisciplinary Design. Becca saw a gap in the market for the deaf community to access emergency services and with using her design degree created TapSoS. She is curious about users, behaviours and needs in order to design functional products for accessibility. Becca is a ‘Global Shaper’ – a World Economic Forum initiative comprising of a  network of under 30s working together to address regional and global challenges to play an active role in shaping policy, innovation, health, education and more.