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PROJECT PERIODIC REPORT Grant Agreement number: 610510 Project acronym: Prosperity4All Project title: Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders Funding Scheme: Collaborative Project – Integrated Project (IP) Date of latest version of Annex I against which the assessment will be made: 03 February 2015 Periodic report: 1st ■ 2nd □ 3rd □ 4th □ 5th □ Period covered: from Month 1 (February 2014) to Month 12 (January 2015) Name, title and organisation of the scientific representative of the project’s coordinator1: Matthias Peissner, Dr.-Ing. Fraunhofer IAO Tel: +49 711 970 2311 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Usually the contact person of the coordinator as specified in Art. 8.1. of the grant agreement Declaration by the scientific representative of the project coordinator1 I, as scientific representative of the coordinator1 of this project and in line with the obligations as stated in Article II.2.3 of the Grant Agreement declare that: . The attached periodic report represents an accurate description of the work carried out in this project for this reporting period; . The project (tick as appropriate): ■ has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period; □ has achieved most of its objectives and technical goals for the period with relatively minor deviations2; □ has failed to achieve critical objectives and/or is not at all on schedule3. The public website is up to date. The financial statements which are being submitted as part of this report are in line with the actual work carried out and are consistent with the report on the resources used for the project (section 3.6) and if applicable with the certificate on financial statement. All beneficiaries, in particular non-profit public bodies, secondary and higher education establishments, research organisations and SMEs, have declared to have verified their legal status. Any changes have been reported under section 5 (Project Management) in accordance with Article II.3.f of the Grant Agreement. Name of scientific representative of the Coordinator1: Matthias Peissner Date: .01/ April / 2015 Signature of scientific representative of the Coordinator1: 2 If either of these boxes is ticked, the report should reflect these and any remedial actions taken. 3 If either of these boxes is ticked, the report should reflect these and any remedial actions taken. 2 1. PUBLISHABLE SUMMARY Prosperity4All is a 4 year project to create a development infrastructure that would make it easier and less expensive for diverse companies, organizations, and people to create, market, and support accessibility solutions (both assistive technologies/services and mainstream features) for people facing disability, literacy, digital literacy or ageing related barriers to the use of digital products and our digital future. Prosperity4all is part of an integrated and global effort to create a Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII.net). This infrastructure will be a paradigm shift in e-Inclusion through facilitation of one-size-fits-one digitally-inclusive solutions. The three major functions of the Global Public Infrastructure (GPII) are: • To provide the infrastructure to make it easy for individuals who have difficulty in using ICT to be able to discover what features or technologies they need in order to make ICT usable for them. • To provide an infrastructure to allow users to use their needs and preferences sets to cause any software/ devices/ media services to automatically change into a form that they can use instantly and without their understanding how to do it. • To provide the infrastructure that can make it easier, less expensive, and faster to innovate and then move these innovations through development and to markets internationally; as well as to enable the development of entirely new types of accessibility solutions and delivery systems. The first step of this effort was the FP7 Cloud4all project that focused on creating an “auto- personalization from preferences” (APfP) capability for AT and accessible mainstream products. Phase II is Prosperity4all which focuses on developing the infrastructure to allow a new ecosystem to grow that enables a broader range of developers to create, market and support products internationally, more easily and at lower cost. Of particular interest are products that can address the needs of low incidence groups at the tails and tails-of-tails of population distributions. In the first twelve months of the project, the major management, communication and collaboration procedures of the overall project, sub projects and work packages have been set up. The project has been made visible to the scientific community and the general public by press releases, the project website (www.prosperity4all.eu), extensive dissemination materials, and the appearance at the HCII 2014 conference with an own GPII Mini Conference and an exhibition booth. A special focus in the first project phase has been set on SP 1 » Economic Model«. This Sub Project will be a key for the project success as expressed in the project objectives. The first deliverable D101.1 »Documented process for modelling and analysis and report format for reporting back to project« has set the ground for the current analyses of demand-supply chains, major stakeholders and their specific needs. Two further SP 1 deliverables are currently being finished: D101.2 presents and discusses potential business models to be used in the P4A ecosystem. It outlines the P4A platform as a cross-channel ecosystem, actor-driven with high levels of coproduction and participation. D102.1 describes the schedule for the remaining modelling and design activities in SP 1 and documents a communication plan for engaging partners and stakeholders in participating in these activities. 3 In Sub Project 2 the technological infrastructure is being built. SP 2 provides the technical platform for consumer-developer relations, tools and building blocks that enable the efficient provision and development of successful access solutions and accessible mainstream IT services. A first step in this SP was to modularize tools and building blocks to enable integration into a common GPII architecture and technical framework as well as existing product implementations. To prepare the adoption of the tools and modules by implementers, documentation and mock-up versions were collected and published in the DeveloperSpace Repository. Moreover, concepts, designs and first prototypes for the infrastructural components of the DeveloperSpace, including the Unified Listing and MarketPlace have been developed. Finally, a first prototype of the Assistance-On-Demand (AoD) service platform has been developed. This platform supports user and service supplier registration and flexible service search. In Sub Project 3 the technological infrastructure will be proven by implementing real-world applications with the provided tools and technologies. This work package is dependent on SP2 and was therefore started in Month 6. A first mapping of tools and technologies from SP 2 to the implementations in SP 3 has been completed. Time plans for the provision of SP 2 artefacts have been coordinated between SP 2 and SP 3 to ensure proper uptake and evaluation by SP 3 implementers. Sub Project 4 is all about Evaluation. Early in the project, evaluation procedures and methods have been prepared and planned. Evaluation criteria and phases have been defined. A strong emphasis is put on extending the evaluation focus beyond the traditional technical validation and usability assessment to measuring success in the broader economic sense. Close collaboration and exchange of ideas and requirements between SP 1 and SP 4 have been established to align the evaluation criteria and procedures (SP 4) with the economic objectives and strategies (SP 1) and the SP2 and SP3 development teams in order to set which mapped developments will be available for first iteration with implementers. 4 2. PROJECT OBJECTIVES FOR THE FIRST YEAR 2.1. Overview Major objectives of the first year of the Prosperity4All project are: Organizational • Get all teams in place and fully briefed • Create both 1st year and fast-start targets • Create the sub-teams and cross-work package teams • Install mechanisms and procedures for efficient communication and collaboration • Plan and carry out dissemination activities to gain attention by relevant target audiences in academia, technology and business; including the development and provision of high quality dissemination materials. Programmatic • Set up the process for economic modelling and analysis as a basis for the prosperity-based ecosystem for inclusive design • Identify, select and revise candidate market models and strategies for sustainable prosperity • Develop concepts, designs and initial prototypes for the overall architecture and the infrastructural components like Unified Listing, MarketPlace and DeveloperSpace including approaches for gamification. • Collect and create an extensive repository of alternative input, output and processing modules, components and adapters to facilitate development of assistive technologies and accessible interfaces. • Design a generic open source infrastructure that supports the current and emerging needs for Assistance-on-Demand services. • Identify feedback and feedforward information needs and preferred modalities for engaging customers over time to maximize the satisfaction of the consumers and developers. • Identify the SP2 tools to be