Prosperity4All

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.

Consortium

FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG e.V – Germany
RAISING THE FLOOR-INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION – Switzerland
ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN UNIVERSITY – Canada
LSE ENTERPRISE LIMITED – United Kingdom
INTERNATIONELLA HANDELSHOGSKOLAN IJONKOPING AB*IHH – Sweden
SINGULARLOGIC ANONYMI ETAIRIA PLIROFORIAKON SISTIMATON KAI EFARMOGON PLIROFORIKIS – Greece
HOCHSCHULE DER MEDIEN – Germany
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS – Greece
FUNDOSA TECHNOSITE SA – Spain
ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA – Italy
PARTICIPATORY CULTURE FOUNDATION – United Kingdom
SENSUS APS – Denmark
Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie – Germany
KOMPETENZNETZWERK INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIE ZUR FOERDERUNG DER INTEGRATION VON MENSCHEN MIT BEHINDERUNGEN – Austria
Fachhochschule Technikum Wien – Austria
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS – Cyprus
FUNDACION ONCE PARA LA COOPERACION E INCLUSION SOCIAL DE PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD – Spain
AGE PLATFORM EUROPE AISBL – Belgium
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND OF IRELAND – Ireland
CONSORCIO PARA EL DESARROLLO DE POLITICAS EN MATERIA DE SOCIEDAD DE LAINFORMACION Y EL CONOCIMIENTO EN ANDALUCIA FERNANDO DE LOS RIOS – Spain
OPENDIRECTIVE LLP – United Kingdom
LIFETOOL GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH – Austria
MLS MULTIMEDIA AE – Greece
Clevercherry.com Ltd – United Kingdom
UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART – Germany