Network of external collaborators and concertation actions

Concertation objectives

• Remove barriers that prevent the development networks and interoperability;
• Support new schemes to enable businesses, organisations and individuals to take advantage of the emerging technologies;
• Support European policies;
• Accelerate take-up by promoting awareness of possibilities and results among the collaborators;
• Ensure dissemination among them.

In exchange, Cloud4all, in order to achieve a successful and fruitful synergy, will:

• Participate in existing EU concertation activities (i.e. VUMs cluster).
• Initiate new concertation with existing projects.
• Invite them in all big events, national, European and international, organised during the project duration.
• Try to align its dissemination activities with theirs, trying to organise if possible joint events.
• Keep them up to date with all research and development progress in Cloud4All through press releases, newsletters, but even specific milestones delivery additional to that one intended for the general public, and if considered applicable and needed, will invite them selectively to technical and plenary meetings of the Consortium and organize dedicated workshops/clusters with them;
• contribution to the Cloud4all/GPII research work;
• If possible, seek for specific contributions;
• Review with them its research roadmap and input to standardisation committees

Existing Network of External Collaborators

MoU signed

1. IBM
2. TRACE
3. RIM Accessibility
4. Seoul National University
5. University of South Australia
6. ATIS4All Thematic Network (http://www.atis4all.eu/)
7. ETNA Thematic Network (http://www.etna-project.eu/)
8. eAccess+ Thematic Network (www.eaccessplus.eu)
9. Bridge IT Thematic Network (http://www.bridge-it-net.eu/) - project has finished
10. CARDIAC Coordination Action (www.cardiac-eu.org)
11. ACCESSIBLE FP7 STREP (www.accessible-eu.org)- project has finished
12. BRAINABLE FP7 STREP (http://www.brainable.org)
13. OASIS FP7 IP (www.oasis-project.eu)- project has finished

MoU not signed, but collaboration exists

1. APSIS4All FP7 STREP (www.apsis4all.eu)
2. AEGIS FP7 IP (www.aegis-project.eu)
3. INREDIS FP7 STREP (www.cardiac-eu.org/projects/interfaces/inredis.htm)
4. AccessForAll
5. ASTERICS FP7 STREP (www.asterics.eu)
6. AmIVital project (amivital.ugr.es)
7. Fluid project (http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_RCN=7100052)
8. VUMS cluster
   1. GUIDE FP7 STREP (www.guide-project.eu/)
   2. MyUI FP7 STREP (www.myui.eu)
   3. VERITAS FP7 IP (veritas-project.eu)
   4. VICON FP7 STREP (vicon-project.eu)
9. W3C IndieUI working group
10. openURC Alliance
11. W3C Model-Based UI working group
12. University of Wisconsin-Madison
13. ABLEDATA agency
14. Consumer Electronics Association
15. Schema.org
16. Mobile Manufacturers Foundation
17. MIRACLE proposal
18. CATALIST proposal
19. Google
20. Microsoft
21. IBM
22. US Rehabilitation Services Administration
23. Center for Civic Design
24. Inclusive Technologies

SAB

SAB member	Title/ Organisation	Country	Expertise
Axel Lebois	Director at  G3ICT / UN	Global	Policy aspects regarding Intelligent Communication Technologies (ICT) UN Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities
Daniel Ben Horin	Co-CEO / TechSoup Global	Global	Involvement of international NGOs and other beneficiaries. Market vision regarding real needs of people at risk of exclusion.
David Banes	Deputy Head  / Mada Assistive Technology Centre	QA	Technological guidance on Assistive Technologies (AT) development. International Market of Assistive Technologies (AT) and inclusive products.
Hiroshi Kawamura	President/DAISY Consortium	Global	Global knowledge of accessibility of contents and products. Concertation of area projects and DAISY members.
Jiri Prusa	Representative / Ministerstvo Vnitra	Z	EU policy making in the field of Intelligent Communication Technologies (ICT) for Public Government. Public Administration approach.
Julio Abascal	Profesor / UPV	E	Adaptive interfaces. Personalisation of products and services.
Patrick Roe	CM/EPFL	SW	R&D on accessible and assistive ICT Emerging trends and research agenda roadmap
Pier Luigi Emiliani	Research Director / CNR	IT	User interfaces Products for people with disabilities
Saulo Faria Almeida Barretto	Researcher / IPTI. Instituto de Pesquisas em Tecnologia e Inovacao	BR	Innovation in Intelligent Communication Technologies (ICT) products. Potential markets for inclusive Intelligent Communication Technologies (ICT) products and services.
Alejandro Moledo	New Technologies & Innovation Officer. European Disability Forum	BE	New technologies about disabilities.
Margherita Antona	Principal Researcher / ICS FORTH	GR	Human Computer Interaction, Inclusive Design
Sachin Malhan	CEO and Co-Founder / Inclusive Planet	IN	Real needs people at risk of exclusion. Global trends in inclusive facilities.

Concertation activities realised in Year 4

1. Revise the current concertation plan on an annual basis
2. Maintain a page to Cloud4all wiki page related to concertation and include collaboration output, organizes events, etc
3. Participation in HCII 2015
4. Collaboration with Prosperity4all
5. Collaboration with library GPII System
6. Organize annual SAB meetings
7. Participation of SAB members to Cloud4all activities
8. Collaboration with shopping / Alerting Aid for Unified Listing
9. Meeting with GOOGLE
10. Meeting with Microsoft
11. Meeting with IBM
12. Collaboration with RtF-US and Trace R&D Center on New Grant
13. Collaboration with head of IT Accessibility at Barclays bank about GPII and Barclay’s bank
14. Collaboration with HUMANIST GA, Task Force
15. Participation in TRB 2015 conference
16. Participation in ITS Special Session 61 "Multimodal Transport for People and Goods"