Accedo 2.0 Virtual Community for people with intellectual disability
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The Accedo 2.0 program is a 20 month virtual community project for people with intellectual disabilities. It aims to improve access to information technologies, enhance internet communication, and facilitate social integration. The program involves developing and testing a social networking site under accessibility and usability criteria. Eight organizations from seven Spanish regions will collaborate by piloting the community and providing equipment and training. The program has three stages: needs analysis, community development and testing, and launching an open community.
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Accedo 2.0 Virtual Community for people with intellectual disability
- 1. Accedo 2.0 Virtual Community for people with intellectual disability
- 2. What is Accedo 2.0? It’s a 20 month long program, from 2009 to 2011, developed for creating and testing a virtual community with social networking features, designed under accessibility and usability criteria and to be used by mild intellectual disability people. It is funded by Advance 2 Plans of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade.
- 3. Goals • Improving access to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) of people with disabilities. • Enhance communication and the use made of the Internet by people with intellectual disabilities. • Improve the accessibility of web 2.0 on the Internet. • Facilitate the social integration of people with disabilities.
- 4. Who is involved? Esplai Foundation in Barcelona, UNED in Madrid and FASAD in Gijon as program developers and managers with the support of 8 entities from 7 different Spanish regions that launch pilot testing of the community.
- 5. Pilot collaborators • ATADES from Zaragoza • APDIS from Utrera (Sevilla) • FASAD Foundation from Gijón (Asturias) • El Maresme Foundation from Mataró (Barcelona)
- 6. Pilot associations • Madrid Down Syndrome Foundation • Charity House Òmnia Point from Valls (Tarragona) • Basque Country Down Syndrome Foundation • Murcia Down Syndrome Foundation
- 7. Program’s stages Stage 1 • Needs analysis with and audit online tool. • 8 collaborators selection for the pilot phase. • Equipment and training for collaborators Stage 2 • Community development. • Community implementation and pilot testing through 6 months. • Project tracking and analysis. Stage 3 • Launching and facilitation of the open community.
- 8. Esplai Foundation promotes several citizenship e-inclusion projects • Facilitation and coordination processes on Spanish networks (Red Conecta, Conecta Joven, Xarxa Òmnia) • Employability towards ICT and professional profile definition of telecentre facilitators on Europe (Telecentre Europe) • Functional diversity and ICT (Accesibles Telecentres, Disability and ICT training, Accedo 2.0) • E-learning for social and digital facilitators. • Methodology 2.0 as a strategy for the social, professional and educational use of technology.
- 9. More information about our projects: http://www.accedo20.org http://www.redconecta.net http://comunitatomnia.ning.com http://metodologiadospuntzero.ning.com/ http://moodle.esplai.org http://www.fundacionesplai.org