Shay McDonnel
Ireland
Script: Enabling multilingual digital access to social welfare resources.
Biography
Diana and Shay are using their fellowship grant to develop Script. Script aims to enable a greater number of individuals to access social welfare resources and entitlements. It will help immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and minority groups access government support digitally, on a user-friendly platform, and in their native language.
Shay also attends Trinity College Dublin, studying Computer Science with Linguistics. He began programming aged 13 and, by leveraging online resources, gained experience developing various Android mobile apps, games, and websites. He joined Script as co-founder and lead technical engineer in April 2022.
Award
- 2023
O'Shaughnessy Fellowship
Script: Enabling multilingual digital access to social welfare resources.
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