Jonathan Schull

Country: USA
Company: Psychology
Son ofRebecca Schull. Dr. Jon Schull is the creator of eNABLE, an online phi- lanthropic community that designs, customizes and fabricates open-sourced affor- dable 3D-printed prosthetic hands and arms for children and adults with upper limb differences. In a past life, Schull was the founder of SoftLock.com aka DigitalGoods (NASDAQ: DIGS) a seminal digital rights management company. He is the author of 19 patents, and the former director of RIT's Center for Student Innovation. In his current role as Research Scientist in MAGIC, Schull directs a new initiative in Access and Collaboration Technologies. The volunteer eNABLE movement was founded in 2013 by Jon Schull, who also co-founded the Enable Community Foundation (ECF) to support a global network of volunteers using 3D printers to design, fabricate, and disseminate free, prosthetic-like hand and arm devices. These efforts focused on a par- ticularly under-served community: the one in 2,000 children born with upper-limb abnormalities-a disability touching nearly every community across ethnic, religious, and class lines. ECF's vision was to harness a combination of 3D technologies, inter- net collaboration, mass customization, distributed manufacturing, and volunteerism to reimagine the way upper-limb prosthetics are produced and distributed, making prohibitively expensive prosthetics available to all. Schull's term as a Prize awardee concluded in 2016, when he left ECF to continue his work with eNABLE.
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