Project description
ICT for smart and personalised inclusion
Over 2 billion people worldwide have different types, degrees, or combinations of disability, literacy, digital literacy or aging related barriers that impede or prevent use of ICT. Not long ago you could live without access to ICT quite well. However today access to ICT is required for most education, employment, and commerce, and is increasingly required for travel, health, safety, daily living and participation in most of our society. Yet we currently only reach 3 to 15% of these - in developed countries. We cannot socially, economically or politically afford to have this cumulatively large percentage of our society offline going forward. Yet there is no way to reach them with our current model.
Proposed is phase II of an effort to create a paradigm shift in eInclusion. Part I was the FP7 project Cloud4all for creating instant, ubiquitous auto-personalization of interfaces and materials based on user needs and preferences. Part II, Prosperity4all, focuses on developing the infrastructure to allow a new ecosystem to grow; one that is based on self-rewarding collaboration, that can reduce redundant development, lower costs, increase market reach and penetration internationally, and create the robust cross-platform spectrum of mainstream and assistive technology based access solutions required. This will be done through a process based on true value propositions for all stakeholders and resulting in a system that can profitably serve markets as small as one, at a personally and societally affordable cost. This infrastructure will use cloud, crowd, game and smart technologies, to bring new players with both low and high technical skills into the development and delivery ecosystem, introduce accessibility as a ubiquitous service, and combine auto-configured access features built into mainstream products with assistive technologies and services to create the rich milieu of options needed to bring this diverse population of populations into our digital future.
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Call for proposal
FP7-ICT-2013-10
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
80686 Munchen
Germany
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Participants (24)
1200 Wien
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4040 Linz
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4020 LINZ
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1150 Bruxelles / Brussel
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M5T 1W1 Toronto Ontario
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1218 LE GRAND SACONNEX
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1678 Nicosia
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70569 Stuttgart
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76131 Karlsruhe
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70174 Stuttgart
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2100 København
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28012 Madrid
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18007 Granada
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28027 Madrid
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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14564 Nea Kifisia
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55535 PYLAIA
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9 DUBLIN
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00144 ROMA
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551 11 Jonkoping
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WS1 2AN Walsall
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EX4 6JT EXETER
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WC2A 2AE LONDON
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EC4A 3TW LONDON
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