Karen Dolva founded No Isolation in 2015 after meeting a woman, Anna Fi, who has lost her child to cancer. While Anna Fi's daughter was ill, she said the separation from school and normal life isolated her. This led to her suffering severe loneliness on top of the physical pain of illness and treatment.
This set Karen on a course to develop technology to solve this problem.
No Isolation developed AV1 over many months of research and testing. Children, teachers, scientists and St Olav Hospital School helped to develop the technology. Putting experts at the centre of the design process is what helped make AV1 so well-suited to its user group. The resulting technology is the AV1 robot, which children connect to via the AV1 app. It gives them a live connection to school, so they can learn alongside their peers and maintain a sense of belonging.
Today, No Isolation partners with over 850 high profile charities, government organisations, universities, schools and hospitals. Over 3,000 AV1s are now in operation across 17 countries in Europe, and the the technology has proven very successful for students missing school due to a wide range of conditions and needs