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TITLE OF PROJECT

ICT for ALL: The social impact on ICT and their limited reach to potentially excluded communities. Measuring the problem and undertaking initiatives for its effective mitigation

Country:

EU Member States

Project Period:

10/2006-10/2008

Project Value:

€ 300.000

No of Staff Provided:

4

Origin of Funding:

EU IST Programme

Name of Client/ Beneficiary:

EU - Information Society and media Directorate General

Description of Project:

The four basic objectives of the project are the following: a) to develop a set of indicators capable of describing the degree to which the social impacts of ICT reach a number of exclusion prone social communities, in particular disabled, unemployed, immigrants and older people; b) to calculate values for these indicators, primarily by means of expert stakeholder and community member surveys and to comparatively analyse them; c) to develop clear guidelines and recommendations, as to measures that could bridge this gap and make ICT more accessible to all; d) to disseminate knowledge to national and EU stakeholders on the ICT indicators for the exclusion prone communities and to propose policy instrument and technology amendments so that any observed exclusion maybe removed leading to a gradual removal of the obstacles that the exclusion prone communities currently face in enjoying the social benefits of ICT.

Services Provided:
  • Desk research for identification of society-wide indicators used for approaching the social impact of ICT at large and identification of EU and international good practice as to making ICT accessible to the targeted communities
  • Indicator and questionnaire development
  • Filed research
  • On line EU survey
  • National and EU guidelines and recommendations for a more inclusive ICT, following the processing of the data collected from stakeholders' interviewed.
  • Organisation of events for the presentation of results
  • Material production
  • Development of a business plan for an EU NGO for ICT
  • Creation of an EU NGO for ICT
  • Cooperation with other national and European level projects

Name of Partners:
  • ASM (leader) (PL)
  • Instituto Cooperativo Per l' innovazione societa cooperativa (IT)
  • Insight Social Research LTD (UK)
  • Bundapesti Corvinus Egyetem (HU)