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Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders

D503.3 Exploitation plans

Project Acronym Prosperity4All Grant Agreement number FP7-610510 Deliverable number D503.3 Work package number WP503 Work package title Exploitation and deployment Authors Eva de Lera (RtF-I) Status Final Dissemination Level Confidential

Delivery Date 31/03/2017 Number of Pages 59

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Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders www.prosperity4all.eu

Keyword List

[Exploitation plans, Business Models, Cloud, Collaborative, Auto-Personalization, and Accessibility.]

Version History

Revision Date Author Organisation Description

1 06/12/2016 Eva de Lera RtF-I Index draft

2 10/01/2017 Eva de Lera RtF-I Draft document structure and sections overview

3 24/01/2017 Eva de Lera RtF-I Internal draft

4 15/03/2017 Eva de Lera RtF-I Final round of internal editing

5 29/03/2017 Vivian Vimarlund JIBS Peer internal review: comments about the two-sided market that will be integrated in the final deliverable due M48

6 30/03/2017 Gregg Vanderheiden

RtF-I improvements on review.

7 30/03/2017 Eva de Lera Achillias Stergiou

RtF-I Final

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary .......................................................................................................... 1

1 Contribution to the global architecture ................................................................... 3

2 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5

2.1 Project summary .......................................................................................................... 5

2.1.1 The GPII .................................................................................................................. 5

2.1.2 The Prosperity4All Project: ..................................................................................... 5

2.1.3 The DeveloperSpace ............................................................................................... 6

2.2 Purpose of the document ............................................................................................ 7

2.3 Intended audience of this document .......................................................................... 7

2.4 Scope and methodology .............................................................................................. 8

3 Value proposition ................................................................................................... 9

3.1 Approach ..................................................................................................................... 9

3.2 The value propositions .............................................................................................. 10

Summary of the AT market ................................................................................................... 11

3.2.1 Guiding Factors and Recommendations .............................................................. 15

3.3 Key components of P4A/GPII Infrastructure ............................................................. 16

4 Pathway to Exploitation ........................................................................................18

4.1 Key aspects ................................................................................................................ 18

4.2 The elements of success ............................................................................................ 18

4.2.1 Innovative solutions ............................................................................................. 18

4.2.2 The right timing .................................................................................................... 20

4.2.3 Major accessibility players ................................................................................... 21

4.2.4 On-going global support ....................................................................................... 21

4.2.5 Clear Implementation plan .................................................................................. 22

5 Exploitation strategy .............................................................................................23

5.1 Key strategic priorities ............................................................................................... 24

5.2 Roles and responsibilities .......................................................................................... 24

5.3 Exploitation forms ..................................................................................................... 25



5.4 IPR management and licensing ................................................................................. 26

5.5 Exploitation plan per partner .................................................................................... 27

5.5.1 Fraunhofer IAO ..................................................................................................... 27

5.5.1.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 27

5.5.1.2 Exploitation plan .......................................................................................... 28

5.5.2 RtF-Int'l ................................................................................................................. 28

5.5.2.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 28


5.5.3 Inclusive Design Research Centre ........................................................................ 30

5.5.3.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 30


5.5.4 SingularLogic S.A. ................................................................................................. 31

5.5.4.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 31


5.5.5 HdM ...................................................................................................................... 32

5.5.5.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 32


5.5.6 CERTH/HIT ............................................................................................................ 33

5.5.6.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 33


5.5.7 Ilunion ................................................................................................................... 35

5.5.7.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 35


5.5.8 Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. ........................................................... 36

5.5.8.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 36


5.5.9 Sensus ApS ............................................................................................................ 37

5.5.9.1 Company profile ........................................................................................... 37




5.5.10 KI-I ..................................................................................................................... 38

5.5.10.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 38

5.5.10.2 Exploitation plan ...................................................................................... 39

5.5.11 FHTW (UAS Technikum Wien) .......................................................................... 40

5.5.11.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 40


5.5.12 University of Cyprus ......................................................................................... 41

5.5.12.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 41


5.5.13 CFR Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos ................................................................ 42

5.5.13.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 42


5.5.14 OpenDirective................................................................................................... 44

5.5.14.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 44


5.5.15 LIFEtool ............................................................................................................. 45

5.5.15.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 45


5.5.16 Clevercherry ..................................................................................................... 46

5.5.16.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 46


5.5.17 Stuttgart Media University ............................................................................... 47

5.5.17.1 Company profile ....................................................................................... 47


5.6 DeveloperSpace exploitation plan ............................................................................. 49

5.7 Joint exploitation approach ....................................................................................... 50

5.7.1 The GPII strategy .................................................................................................. 50

5.7.2 Organizational structure ...................................................................................... 52

5.7.3 From strategy to implementation ........................................................................ 53



5.7.3.1 End-user engagement .................................................................................. 53

5.7.3.2 Developer engagement ................................................................................ 54

5.7.3.3 Industry engagement ................................................................................... 54

5.7.3.4 Public sector engagement ............................................................................ 55

5.7.3.5 On-going research and development .......................................................... 55

5.7.3.6 Community building ..................................................................................... 56

5.7.4 Sustainability ........................................................................................................ 56

5.7.5 Revenue Generation ............................................................................................ 57

5.7.5.1 GPII Operations Generated Revene ............................................................. 57

5.7.5.2 Public Funding .............................................................................................. 58

5.7.5.3 Private Funding ............................................................................................ 58

5.7.6 Monitoring, evaluating and learning .................................................................... 58

5.8 Timeline ..................................................................................................................... 59

5.9 Important results achieved........................................................................................ 59

5.10 Future interim goals .................................................................................................. 60

6 Conclusions ...........................................................................................................61

6.1 Key learnings .............................................................................................................. 61

6.2 Next steps .................................................................................................................. 61

7 References ............................................................................................................63

List of Tables

Table 1, Summary list of all exploitation results ...................................................................... 25

Table 2, Auto-personalization UnifiedListing DeveloperSpace Exploitation plan ................... 29

Table 3, Open source code and inclusive design tools Exploitation plan ................................ 30

Table 4, Assistance on Demand infrastructure Exploitation plan ............................................ 31

Table 5, Gamification, Game Design Patterns Exploitation plan ............................................. 33

Table 6, Routing Guidance System Exploitation plan .............................................................. 34

Table 7, User panel Exploitation plan ...................................................................................... 35



Table 8, SpagoBI, Open Source Business Intelligence Suite Exploitation plan ........................ 36

Table 9, RoboBraille Exploitation plan ..................................................................................... 37

Table 10, WebACS Exploitation plan ........................................................................................ 39

Table 11, AsTeRICS Packaging Environment Exploitation plan ................................................ 40

Table 12, ARE Runtime Environment Exploitation plan ........................................................... 42

Table 13, Mouse head, AsTerisc Module Exploitation plan ..................................................... 43

Table 14, Brian and Stepping stones Exploitation plan ............................................................ 44

Table 15, FlashWords application Exploitation plan ................................................................ 45

Table 16, MYUI Exploitation plan ............................................................................................. 46

Table 17, URC Socket Templates Exploitation plan ................................................................. 48

Table 18, URC/Eclipse Smart Home Integration Exploitation plan .......................................... 48

Table 19, GPII Exploitation plan ............................................................................................... 51

List of Figures

Figure 1: Overall Picture of Prosperity4all ................................................................................. 3

Figure 2: Screenshot of the GPII DeveloperSpace (as of March 15th, 2017)........................... 11

Figure 3 : The AT ICT Value Chain ............................................................................................. 12

Figure 4: Prosperity4all, Cloud4All and other Projects overlaid on GPII Roadmap. ............... 17

Figure 5: Explaining the building of GPII .................................................................................. 50

List of Abbreviations

Abbreviation Full form

a11y Accessibility

AT Assistive Technologies

D Deliverable

DoW Description of Work



Abbreviation Full form

FP7 7th Framework Programme

GPII Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure

P4A Prosperity4All

ICT Information and Communication Technologies

IESE Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa

IPRs Intellectual Property Rights

MGT Management

NFC Near Field Communications

PMT Preference Management Tool

RB-MM Rule-Based Matchmaker

REST Representational State Transfer

SP Sub Project

UL Unified Listing

UX User Experience

WP Work Package

C4A Cloud4All



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Executive Summary

Prosperity4All (P4A) is an international project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union that advances the concept and development of the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII), an international initiative to make ICT more accessible to people facing barriers due to disability, literacy, digital literacy and aging.

The GPII has three major objectives

1. Making it easier for people to find solutions to their barriers if they exist anywhere inthe world

2. Making it easier to user the solutions by having them appear on any technologies the individual encounters – changing it into a form they can undersand and use.

3. Making it easier, less expensive and faster to create new and improved solutions, and market them internationally.

The Prosperity4All project focuses on the third objective: Making it easier, less expensive and faster to create new and improved solutions, and market them internationally. It is doing this by creating a DeveloperSpace (DeveloperSpace) to create and/or bring together information, resources, parts, tools, people and projects that are currently scattered throughout the web and throughout the world.

The Prosperity4All exploitation plan includes two dimensions:

• Use of the DeveloperSpace and its components by R&D communities, and • Use of the DeveloperSpace and its components beyond research, i.e. in mainstream

ICT development and creation of new products and services.

The exploitation strategy is outlined both at a GPII Consortium level and at a P4A individual partners’ level.

The joint approach includes:

• Creating business offerings based on the DeveloperSpace as a whole, as the central space in which to, internationally, find the necessary access solutions, or tools and services to use in other technological solutions and infrastructures.

• Offering a specific modules or components of Prosperity4all such as the Assistance on Demand, the Document Transformation and others mentioned in the 3.2.1 section of this document.

• Offering the necessary resources to assist in the development, via training resources and others, aimed at all key players, including end-users, organizations, industry and government institutions.



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The individual partner approach includes:

• Companies that offer consulting services around the use and integration of the DeveloperSpace, and its ready components.

• Technology creators, providers and system integrators, which can develop new features. This includes any organization that develops and/or delivers software pieces or complete systems.

• Research and academic partners that may carry out new research activities built upon Prosperity4all results.



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1 Contribution to the global architecture

The contribution of this deliverable relates to WP503 but affects all parts of the diagram as it concerns the plan to exploit and sustain these efforts, and their results byond the end of the project.

Figure 1: Overall Picture of Prosperity4all

The overall contribution to the infrastructure is in the identification of the strategies for exploiting the product/service results developed by the different partners, economically, in advancement of research and innovation, and in impact-on-mission. The primary goal of the project is to help seed and facilitate the development of an ecosystem for the development and improvement of products and services for people with disabilities.

The DeveloperSpace infrastructure introduces the opportunity for different service delivery and development options, providing new opportunities to address the needs and abilities of widely varying users, closing the accessibility gap for them. The infrastructure provides a hub in personalization technologies, distribution and development, influencing and contributing



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to this ecosystem. A key requirement (and the source of the Prosperity4All name) is that everyone must benefit, from developers, to end-users, to industry, policymakers, etc. for the ecosystem to work.

This deliverable is the first draft of the Exploitation Plan. The final plan will include additional detail as costs are determined and revenue models are evaluated. The DeveloperSpace will be launched in September 2017, allowing the consortium to evaluate, assess, better understand and adapt the DeveloperSpace to the feedback, use and suggestions made for the DeveloperSpace.



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2 Introduction

The present deliverable is the first version of the Exploitation plan of the Prosperity4All project. The following pages briefly introduce the project objectives, and what the 24 Partners and 3 Collaborators from 9 European Countries plus Canada and USA have been working on to achieve the project’s objectives.

This document specifically focuses on project outcomes and the plans for exploiting the project results – both individually, as well as jointly.

2.1 Project summary Prosperity4All (P4A) is an international project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union that advances the concept and development of the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII).

2.1.1 The GPII

The GPII is an international initiative to make ICT more accessible to people facing barriers due to disability, literacy, digital literacy and aging. The overall GPII initiative is led by Raising the Floor Consortium, with the participation of the global community including industry, governments, non-governmental organizations, and individuals, with the mission to assist people with disabilities and others who face barriers to accessing digital world.

The GPII has three major objectives

4. Making it easier for people to find solutions to their barriers if they exist anywhere inthe world

5. Making it easier to user the solutions by having them appear on any technologies the individual encounters – changing it into a form they can undersand and use.

6. Making it easier, less expensive and faster to create new and improved solutions, and market them internationally.

2.1.2 The Prosperity4All Project:

P4A project focuses on the third objective: Making it easier, less expensive and faster to create new and improved solutions, and market them internationally. It is doing this by creating a DeveloperSpace (DeveloperSpace) to create and/or bring together information, resources, parts, tools, people and projects that are currently scattered throughout the web and throughout the world.

The DeveloperSpace will not do this by copying or bringing things to the DeveloperSpace that exist elsewhere but rather providing a home for ‘fugative’ resources and a central point



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that links to, and points to, the different resources elsewhere to make it easier to find them. The DeveloperSpace is focused on developers of all types and seeks to increase the number, types, and backgrounds of people who participate in the process of defining, creating and disseminating new and better accessibility solutions.

The GPII DeveloperSpace is designed to invite feedback, critique, suggestions, contributions and participation from anyone who shares the goal of creating new and better solutions for anyone facing barriers to access of information and communication technologies due to disability, literacy, digital literacy, or age-related causes.

The P4A project is particularly interested in ensuring that solutions exist and can be found by people at the extreme tails of our population and the tails of the tails of each of the different disability populations. This will be done through a process based on true value propositions for all stakeholders and result 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, to create the rich milieu of options needed to bring the global diverse population of populations into the digital present, and future.

The Prosperity4All project is a complement to the Cloud4All (C4A) (also funded by the EU's 7th Framework Programme) which focused on developing the automatic personalization parts of the GPII.

2.1.3 The DeveloperSpace

Prosperity4All is focused on building the GPII DeveloperSpace, its contents and its connections. The goal is to create this "development infrastructure" that will live on beyond the end of the grant is part of the overall Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) to provide resources and support as well as a common connection point for the different people working on creating new solutions. It's sustainability will come partly from financial and participatory contribution, partly from revenues connected with use of the site, and partly from revenues generated through other GPII components.

The goal is for the DeveloperSpace to function and grow post grant funding both as an independent resource and as part of the overall GPII infrastructure.

Among the objectives of the DeveloperSpace being developed by Prosperity4All are:

• To allow for easy access to open and available development resources and tools to improve or create new solutions for existing accessibility technology gaps.



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• To provide an exhaustive directory of existing solutions and an opportunity to market the newly created solutions.

• To offer engaging tools and mechanisms to engage end-users into the development process, to gain more in depth understanding of needs, to help evaluate, assess and also identify new opportunities.

• To create an integrated space in which all stakeholders can meet and gain from each other.

• To be simple, accessible, affordable and be profitable (in some way or form)

2.2 Purpose of the document

This document outlines the Exploitation Plan for the DeveloperSpace and the solutions generated during the Prosperity4All project. Its purpose is to provide a detailed description of the exploitation possibilities, both individually by partner, or jointly as part of the DeveloperSpace as an integral key part of the GPII. It specifically outlines the transferability of the Prosperity4All results into the real world.

The structure of the present report is as follows:

Section 1 is devoted to the introduction, the purpose of this document, its intended audience and the scope of the exploitation plans and the methodology followed.

Section 2 provides a summary of the value proposition of Prosperity4All (P4A) in the overall context of GPII of which Prosperity4All is an integrated and relevant part. It includes the approach, the value propositions, and a summary of the AT market and key components of P4A.

Section 3 introduces the pathway to exploitation, highlighting the key aspects and elements of success of P4A.

Section 4 reports on the exploitation strategy that will be carried out by each P4A partner contributing to an exploitable solution, and also presents the joint P4A /GPII exploitation approach, for moving from strategy to implementation, including a review of important results achieved and future interim goals.

Section 5 outlines the key learnings and sets the stage for the future of GPII.

2.3 Intended audience of this document The Exploitation Plan is aimed at the following audiences and respectively at the fulfilment of the following objectives:

• European Commission: to communicate the consortium’s strategy and report on exploitation activities;



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• Consortium partners: to notify and confirm (prior to this document’s official final version submission to the EC) each consortium partner’s exploitation achievements and future intentions in order to enable them to:

o Exercise their objection right in case their legitimate interest could be impacted, and

o Identify yet new exploitation opportunities not identified at the moment of writing of this deliverable.

2.4 Scope and methodology The main goal is to offer a plan for business operations of the DeveloperSpace once the project ends, in accordance with the business and market related research carried out by the partners and aligned with exploitation plans of each of them as well.

In preparation, the Prosperity4All partners prepared an exploitation plan from a consortium perspective and partners also delivered its specific plan for the exploitation of the project results. These are in section 4.5 and 4.6 of this document.



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3 Value proposition

3.1 Approach Prosperity4All/GPII was designed to address some of the key problems related to accessibility for people with disability, literacy, digital-literacy, and aging related barriers to ICT use. These include the complexity of finding accessible technologies, developing and distributing them in an easy and affordable way, allowing participation of end-users in the creation of new solutions and ensuring that the inter-relationship between all stakeholders is seemless. The goal is to contribute to helping lower or remove barriers that currently prevent people with disabilities, and others with specific access needs and preferences, from full inclusion in society and all of its activities and services.

To address these issues, an international coalition of organizations and individuals came together and proposed the development of the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII). The GPII consists of enhancements to platform and network technologies to create an infrastructure that would simplify the development, delivery and support of access technologies and help provide users with a way to instantly apply the access techniques and technologies they need, automatically, on any computers or other ICT.

With the support of the European Commission, the FP7 funded project Cloud4All (which ended in October 2015) was centered in the instant, ubiquitous, auto-personalization of interfaces and materials based on user needs and preferences. This Prosperity4All project has the mission to develop the infrastructure to support the development of new and improved solutions and to support and facilitate all of the stakeholders who should be involved in this.

The Prosperity4All project is working on a key component of GPII. Its concept is based on a holistic approach to accessible AT by:

1. building the infrastructure for an entire AT mainstream ecosystem (developers, providers, funders and end-users as participants to the creation or improvement of it).

2. integrating a unified, complete directory of resources and solutions for all stakeholders to discover features and technologies.

3. making innovation in AT solutions and delivery systems easier, faster and more affordable.

4. providing the channels throu which to deploy and/or market these solutions.



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5. offering an opportunity to all stakeholders to contribute the development of new solutions.

In a nutshell, Prosperity4All focuses on developing the infrastructure to allow a new development ecosystem to evolve; one that is based on self-rewarding collaboration, that can reduce redundant development, lower costs, increase market reach and penetration internationally, and can therefore help create the robust cross-platform spectrum of mainstream and assistive technology based access solutions required.

3.2 The value propositions While the FP7 funded project Cloud4All developed the technical core of the «auto-personalization from preferences” (APfP) capability of the GPII, Prosperity4All is developing the DeveloperSpace as well as components and resources for it.

The main users, or players, of the DeveloperSpace are: • Mainstream companies seeking to build accessibility into their products • AT companies • Individual developers • Consumer, clinicians • Researchers, algorithm specialists • Public and private organizations

The DeveloperSpace's main purpose is to provide mechanisms for all players to prosper and be able to play their parts. The DeveloperSpace acts as the central location, or connection point, for all of the different services, tools, and resources for someone interested in accessibility development.

In an effort to support an economically viable way for addressing the diverse “markets of one”, P4A promotes cooperation on common components, mixed with competition on new capabilities, to reduce duplication of effort and create cost effective mix of solutions.

More specifically, Prosperity4All's main value propositions are to: • Make it easy to find and access resources, information, standards, trainings and

statistics to answer questions. • Make it easier, faster and less expensive to find code, utilities, components and

systems to enable creation or improvement of AT. • Make it easier, faster and less expensive to assemble different components, to create

new AT or include new features or functions in existing solutions, or enable developers to build their own service infrastructures.

• Make it easier to market new (and existing) products and to reach consumers for the product, internationally, (and vice versa) through the Unified Listing (UL).

• Make it easier and less expensive for developers or other stakeholders to find any of the broad range of communities that may be helpful to them or that they would like to become part of.



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The Unified Listing is integrated into the GPII DeveloperSpace as it federates AT databases (and other Federations like EASTIN) that aggregates comprehensive information on AT hardware, software, services, and combines them with access features in mainstream products. The listings are automatically updated through this federated AT and mainstream databases, automatic search, input of offerings, and vendors who update their new products on the database.

TheUnified Listing’s business model is based on attracting both buyers (end-users) and suppliers (developers).

Figure 2: Screenshot of the GPII DeveloperSpace (as of March 15th, 2017).

Summary of the AT market This section summarizes a few key elements of the combined D504.1.3 “Market

analysis and business scenarios” of project Cloud4All, and deliverable D503.1 "Market



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analysis and technology trajectory" of Prosperity4All, which together, serve to set the baseline for later describing the exploitation plans for the P4A project results.

Despite the existing level of Assistive Technology (AT) product diversity and the fragmentation of the demand and supply, it is possible to speak of a global value chain for the AT industry, including the AT ICT industry. The need and desire of personally-adapted technologies for people without disabilities has already been documented and comprises another potential market for this work.

Figure 3 : The AT ICT Value Chain1

The identified key market players of the existing AT market are:

• Installable software providers and users (i.e. open source software, proprietary applications)

• Internet solution providers and users (i.e. e-commerce, search, social, travel)

Main market characteristics:

• Gaps and needs. Ensuring that the mainstream environment, in addition to traditional products and services, is usable by all people, including those with reduced function or depending on assistive technology. The challenge is marketing new solutions and experiences and limited funding for AT research as a roadblock to marketing of new solutions. (further detail about concrete strengths, weaknesses

1 Robotiker Tecnalia, AAATE, NG4All & European Commission,Analysing and federating the European assistive technology ICT industry, 2009.



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and threats can be found in Annex II of D503.1 "market analysis and technology trajectory). This market it is still largely underserved2. Many stakeholders are calling for a more user-centric type of model. The prevalence of a technology-push model influences not only the production and distribution phases of the chain but also the research and development strategy that is being implemented. The end-users (specifically, people with disabilities), as AT consumers, have little power and the demand is channeled through Service Delivery Models. (Deloitte & AbilityNet, 2011).

• Financial market expectations. These will dramatically vary depending on the approach taken by the AT sector, and by P4A as well. "People with disabilities represent 15 percent of the population of the world and some of the assistive technology market for people with disabilities may also be sold to another 85 percent of the population that is the situation disabled by their environmental conditions, work and play" said Andrew Johnson, managing vice president at Gartner (Gartner Says Companies Should Deploy Technologies to Address IT Accessibility, Published 17/12/2013, Accessed 22/07/2015). The structure of the Assistive Technology market is highly fragmented on both the demand and the supply side. The variety of needs and products leads to many fragmented markets. Each national or regional market has its own rules and procedures. For instance, a company that wants to sell its products in more than just one market must be willing and able to dedicate important resources (time, attention and money) to understand and navigate the process3.

• Architectures. Architecture can help solve accessibility problems through reusable accessible objects, integrating information in links, buttons and labels, help with accessing the web visual information, error handling and much more. Some current models supporting such architecture are: Human Activity Assistive Technologies model (HAAT); Matching Person to Technology model (MPT); Comprehensive Assistive Technology model (CAT); Needs Analysis and Requirements framework (NARA); USERfit methodology (USERfit).

• Assistive technologies solutions. Access and environmnetla control solutions, aids to daily living, augmentative/alternative communication services and solutions, computer-based instruction, mobility, positioning and visual aids, amongst others. As AT embraces the one-size-fits-one, the need for ongoing new developments and solutions will only increase.

2 Gartner, Inc., Gartner Says Companies Should Deploy Technologies to Address IT Accessibility, Press release, December 17, 2013. 3 Robotiker Tecnalia, AAATE, NG4All & European Commission,Analysing and federating the European assistive technology ICT industry, 2009.



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Market predicted scenarios:

• Changing demographics. It's expected that from present to 2050 the over-65 population will for the first time grow at a faster rate than the population aged 64 and under, and that this population will be tech savvy. This will greatly impact and change current scenarios.

• Easy Development and Availability of Mobile Applications. • Gesture-Based Input solutions due to changed demographics and technologies. • Increased Crossover Between Mainstream and Accessible Design, as disability is

perceived as also temporary due to context and moment of use, and not exclusively related to a person's ability.

• Cloud Computing becoming more seamless and personal, as the GPII intends, with cloud recognition of needs and preferences to adapt any device to the person's requested interaction modes.

• AT Market Trend is predicted to grow as technologies have entered the homes, and have made themselves usable but a much wider segment of the population. A market that according to the BBC has an annual growth rate of 5.7% between 2013 and 2018.

A summary of the main market-related highlights in reference to the potential deployment of the GPII DeveloperSpace are:

• It is currently a “Supply Push” market where end-users, as individuals, currently have little power and their demand is channeled through Service Delivery Models. As a result, governments, by adopting cloud accessibility criteria into their purchase requirements can facilitate the adoption of the GPII by providing early markets to assist the move to a broader commercially viable market.

• Assistive Technology markets are also characterized by the presence of multiple and small niches. The end-users that Prosperity4All /GPII targets include the whole population of people with disabilities, as well as anyone else that can benefit from a personal just-for-them experience.

• Among the population with disabilities, a large segment is likely to have limited knowledge of ICT and ICT devices, therefore, simple and clear interfaces to access information is key.

• The actual uptake of Prosperity4All /GPII will be strongly dependent on the global ICT industry: whilst cloud accessibility from multiple devices is acquiring growing importance in the integrated supply of software and devices of the big players, there are no signs of unification among platforms and ecosystems.



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• There is a need for more consistency in the implementation of broadband and accessibility standards.

• Prosperity4All /GPII’s existence in the cloud makes it a natural peer of other cloud-based services but also introduces some key issues about security, privacy, authorization and rights' protection.

3.2.1 Guiding Factors and Recommendations

The following is the list of recommendations and critical points that have guided the exploitation plan here described:

• The DeveloperSpace will gain force when integrated into the overall GPII infrastructure. The exploitation possibilities are weaker when independent of the whole infrastructure, yet existent.

• Prosperity4All/GPII communication strategy should also stimulate companies to make accessibility needs and considerations part of discussions taking place in workplaces around the adoption of cloud-based work solutions that will allow them to make their products more inclusive at a more affordable cost.

• Prosperity4All /GPII has to collaborate closely with governments, policy makers and other key stakeholders that can contribute to the sustainability, deployment and standardization of the work done, at a technical level, but also at a legal level, and more importantly, to unite at a societal level (overall European agreement for accessibility).

• In terms of distribution, the Assistive Technology Unified Listing together with the Open Marketplace that Prosperity4All/GPII aims to build up will make available to all end-users software and applications specially designed for people with disabilities. Each product in the store will specify the characteristics of its potential users, a price (can be free), a description of the software, information about future releases, and user ratings. The users’ data storage allows, through a matching algorithm, identification of software that could be relevant for the person’s needs. As with any market, the success of the Prosperity4All/GPII’s Open Marketplace depends on the relevance, the diversity and the quantity of software and applications.

• Prosperity4All/GPII should advocate for a collaborative effort of the international organizations in delivering good data on the demographics of disability as it applies to ICT: how many people have what kinds of problems using what kinds of ICT products and services, future and emerging? As in the previous version, the analysis performed in this report has highlighted the lack of updated good data.

• Similarly, Prosperity4All/GPII would also benefit from market studies documenting what consumers with disabilities do now: how many use what kind of AT products, how many reduce their functional performance due to not having sufficient access to accessibility solutions, and how many abandon a given area of ICT functionality



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altogether (e.g. the potential users of libraries mentioned above)? These underutilization questions are important because one of the key claims Prosperity4All /GPII is making is that it can dramatically expand the potential market for AT. The DeveloperSpace will allow for these interactions to happen, engaging all stakeholders in the development creation process of accessible and personable solutions.

3.3 Key components of P4A/GPII Infrastructure

Prosperity4All has developed the elements that will make it easier and less expensive for an ecosystem to grow, bring new ideas for products and services from research or concept to market internationally, and allow products reach even more users by lowering the individual cost to develop and support new solutions.

The Figure 3 below highlights the key Prosperity4All components which correspond to the last two items under “Getting access automatically, anywhere, on any device” and the items under “tools to make it easier lower cost to create & market new solutions”

Other components toward building the GPII that are being developed by other projects are also highlighted in Figure 3, such as the Auto-Personalization Computer Project in the US, working on the Shopping Aid solution building the tools that makes it easier for users to discover the types of features and solutions that help them access and use ICT. Also highlighted are the Fluid/Floe projects’ work led by the Canadian partner IDRC, and the also FP7 funded Cloud4All, that has developed the key technical components to advance the GPII concept by providing the necessary repositories of accessibility solutions, as well as the algorithms and mechanisms that make possible the auto-configuration of the accessibility features of different devices, platforms and applications.



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Figure 4: Prosperity4all, Cloud4All and other Projects overlaid on GPII Roadmap.



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4 Pathway to Exploitation

The appearance of cloud-based technologies has brought about a significant progress in addressing global and societal challenges and to improve the daily life of people in general, and specifically in relation to the Prosperity4all and Cloud4All solutions, the improvement of the daily life of people with disabilities. It is also a highly promising economic sector for sustainability, growth, innovation and the technology, health, education and employment sectors, in particular.

4.1 Key aspects Some of the key components of Prosperity4all mentioned before are conducive to

finding an exploitation form.

Given there are some industrial players involved in the consortium, and the difficulties in bridging the competitive interests existing amongst them, in general, a distributed approach is followed, according to which each product/service can be exploited independently by one partner (or a small group of partners). In this way, multiple services/products derived from the Prosperity4all work can co-exist in the market under company-specific licenses and exploitation strategies.

The GPII DeveloperSpace will offer all of the above mentioned P4A components, including the Unified Listing, which is a major marketing and sales tool for the DeveloperSpace.

4.2 The elements of success

4.2.1 Innovative solutions

Prosperity4all /GPII was designed to address some of the key problems related to

developing accessible solutions for people with disability, literacy, digital-literacy, and aging related barriers to ICT use. The challenge was to lower or remove barriers that prevent the easy, affordable and quick development and access to solutions. Prosperity4all /GPII has solved obstacles by creating the DeveloperSpace infrastructure that offers a central location or connection point for all of the different services, tools, and resources, and targetting different types of developers:

1. Mainstream companies seeking to build accessibility features into their products. 2. Assistive technology companies



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3. Individual developers of all types; students, researchers, hackers, and prosumers. 4. Consumers, clinicians and others who have intimate knowledge of the problems and

constraints needed to develop new solutions but may not have thought of themselves as developers, or have not had a venue to participate in the development process.

5. Researchers, algorithm specialists, and others who have specialized knowledge that could be of use in creating new types of solutions but who do not want to try to create entire solutions themselves.

The DeveloperSpace aims at acting as a central reference hub from where all services and resources can be located.

The DeveloperSpace's main components and resources developed under the P4A grant are:

• RESOURCES. A resource space providing information, answers, training materials, research, statistics, standards, and other types of inofrmation that can help people who are new to the filed, or just looking for answers, to locate the information, answers, or the training resources they seek.

• BUILDING BLOCKS. This section provides developers with code, utilities, components, and systems of components, to allow them to create new or improved accessibility solutions, and to do it more easily, faster, and with less expense. This includes building blocks that are open source and proprietary, as well as free and commercial. As with all sections of the DeveloperSpace, the Building Blocks section uses a federated search to be able to direct developers to building blocks in different repositories and resources throughout the web as well as resources that are not on the web.

• FRAMEWORK AND TOOLS. This section provides tools and development frameworks to make it easier to either assemble different compnonents to work together in creating a new solution, or to make it easier for developers to incorporate new features or functions in their existing products. These tools and frameworks also include open source and proprietary, free and commercial tools. The objective is to provide developers with all of the tools and frameworks which may be of use to them, and to allow them to select the type that is best for them and their application.

• SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURES. This section provides the code base for a number of services that can be useful in creating one or another type of excess technologies or services. Some of these are provided as code bases that allow developers to create their own service infrastructures. Others are up and running service infrastructures that can be used, for a fee, as part of a service offering by the developer. The current service infrastructures include_



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o Assistance on Demand (AoD) o Document Transformation o Media Augmentation o Financial Transaction Infrastructure

• PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES. This section provides resources for connecting DeveloperSpace users to other people and communities that may help them in the development of their products or services. Developers can use the resources in this area to find other prospective members of their team, consultants with special skills they need, testers for their products, communities that may help them with technical problems or help them to better understand the consumers they are trying to serve. As with the other sections, the goal of this section is not to connect people to the DeveloperSpace communities, but to help them find any of the broad range of communities that already exist that maybe helpful to them or that they would like to become part of.

• MARKETING AND SALES TOOLS. The DeveloperSpace provides tools to help assistive technology and mainstream technology vendors reach their intended audiences, internationally. The two major marketing/sales tools available at this time include:

o Unified Listing (UL) – including the FeedForward, FeedBack and FeedPeer features, in the UL's interface

o OpenMarketplace – and optional sales service of the Unified Listing

4.2.2 The right timing

According to a Eurostat 2015 study4 “ICT have become widely available to the general public, both in terms of accessibility as well as cost. A boundary was crossed in 2007, when a majority (55 %) of households in the EU-28 had Internet access. This proportion continued to increase and in 2014 reached 81 %”.

In May 2015, the European Commission adopted a digital single market strategy (COM 2015 192), which is one of its top priorities. This strategy covers three areas:

• Promoting better online access to goods and services across Europe; • Designing an optimal environment for digital networks and services to develop; • Ensuring that the European economy and industry takes full advantage of the digital

economy as a potential driver for growth.

4 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Information_society_statistics_-_households_and_individuals



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According to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review5, “within two years, 34% of enterprises will have 60% or more of their applications on a cloud platform”.

Analyst group Forrester expects the global cloud computing market will grow from $35bn (£22.5bn) in 2011 to around $150bn by 2020 as it becomes key to many organizations’ IT infrastructures. And, by 2020, the article mentions that a generational shift will have occurred in organizations that means a new generation of CIOs will be in charge who have grown up using cloud-based tools, making them far more willing to adopt cloud on an enterprise scale.6

4.2.3 Major accessibility players

The involvement and cooperation of major accessibility-related players in Europe, sometimes competitors, is a clear evidence of their belief in the project’s strategic importance for their business activity7.

The involvement and support of major European accessibility sector companies, universities and organizations is particularly important for a relevant and concerted European dissemination of the P4A project and the one-size-fits-one approach. A consistent representation of several access technologies organizations, and the clear support received from the European Commission through two FP7 funded projects (Cloud4All and Prosperity4All) shows a strong commitment towards the use and application of such needs, infrastructures and technologies, as well as the belief that these are crucial for a new wave of auto-personalization and sustainable IT solutions worldwide.

Within the P4A's development team are a number of potential users and suppliers of future personalized accessibility solutions. It is then expected that they are making an investment in the advance of accessible and personalized solutions, and will seek to use the project’s results for their business after the end of the project term.

The strongly complementary expertise and multi-disciplinary, multi-industry, nature of the Prosperity4all consortium is a real added value for the project.

4.2.4 On-going global support

The GPII concept was first developed by Raising the Floor in 2010, when an international group of individuals representing industry, organizations and governments, joined forces to find a solution for making ICT more inclusive. Their mission was to make the web and mobile

5 https://hbr.org/resources/pdfs/tools/16700_HBR_Microsoft%20Report_LONG_webview.pdf 6 http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-computing-10-ways-it-will-change-by-2020/ 7 http://raisingthefloor.org/about/who



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technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status, and their proposed solution was to build a global, public and inclusive Infrastructure (GPII).

Since the very beginning, the leadership of Raising the Floor-International (Gregg Vanderheiden and Jutta Treviranus) has greatly contributed toward engaging major stakeholders and funders, those required to help build such infrastructure.

This global consortium, also participated by the Prosperity4all and the Cloud4All project partners, will continue to work as a global network and ensure that access to technology is available to everyone.

4.2.5 Clear Implementation plan

Prosperity4all /GPII is currently developing a detailed plan for launching a full-functioning DeveloperSpace, as the central hub for finding, adding, and creating or improving new acessible solutions.

At least 7 other initiatives are actively working on or with the concepts created by Prosperity4all/GPII: Omni Agora, Fluid, FLOE, Automated Personalization Computing Project, Library GPII System, Accessibility Shopping/Alerting Aid, Inclusive Technology Enhanced Learning Environments project and Automated Personalization Computing Project (APCP) and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Interface and Information Technology Access (UIITA-RERC).

The Prosperity4all implementation plan will requires that all stakeholders, key players, are invited and attracted to engage and contribute to the growth of the infrastructure created, with the objective to succeed on a full scale basis, helping generate a new wave of solutions, uses and increased community of one-size-fits-one solutions.



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5 Exploitation strategy

Exploitation plan includes two dimensions:

• Use of the DeveloperSpace (and its components, and future ones) R&D communities, and

• Use of the DeveloperSpace beyond research, i.e. in mainstream ICT development and creation of new products and services.

The exploitation strategy is outlined both at a GPII Consortium level and at a P4A individual partners’ level.

The joint approach includes:

• Creating business offerings based on the DeveloperSpace as a whole, as the central space in which to, internationally, find the necessary access solutions, or tools and services to use in other technological solutions and infrastructures.

• Offering a specific modules or components of Prosperity4all such as the Assistance on Demand, the Document Transformation and others mentioned in the 3.2.1 section of this document.

• Offering the necessary resources to assist in the development, via training resources and others, aimed at all key players, including end-users, organizations, industry and government institutions.

The individual partner approach includes:

• Companies that offer consulting services around the use and integration of the DeveloperSpace, and its ready components.

• Technology creators, providers and system integrators, which can develop new features. This includes any organization that develops and/or delivers software pieces or complete systems.

• Research and academic partners that may carry out new research activities built upon Prosperity4all results.

Aspects influencing the exploitation potential of Prosperity4all are identified as follows:

• The growth in engagement, use and participation in the DeveloperSpace as the place where to add, find, and learn about access technologies.

• The maturity of the available tools and up-to-date resources (mostly found through the Unified Listing).

• The later integration of the DeveloperSpace into the larger infrastructure of the GPII.



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• Application potential for results in subsequent research projects. • Interest from private and (semi) private industry for use, application and exploitation. • Stakeholders' understanding and appreciation of value of the DeveloperSpace and

how it can impact society at large.

The shortcomings of the project lie in the newness of the space and the need to have it populated at an important pace, to quickly gain reference and importance.

5.1 Key strategic priorities

The implementation of the exploitation plan addresses the following overarching key strategic priorities:

1. Increased empowerment through equal access of ICT, of individauls with dissabiltiies. Companies , enterprises and organisations around the world with interest in diminish the social gap and use human resources to take action against exclusion in ICT.

2. Implementation and development of inclusive ICT solutions in leading institutions, businesses and the IT industry specifically.

3. Strengthen the ability to develop and use access ICT regardless of specific needs due to disabilities.

4. Higher level of integrity and commitment demonstrated by organizations and people, especially those in leadership positions around the world.

5.2 Roles and responsibilities The exploitation of the Prosperity4all results is dependent on the efforts of the larger

consortium, which includes individuals, companies and organizations who are either advocating for the type of solutions that are being built, or contributing to it in one way or another (in kind, funding, etc.).

Specifically, the development of this exploitation plan has been a joint effort of the entire Prosperity4all/Cloud4All/GPII consortium. Partners IDRC, JIBS and ENG have been responsible for identifying and developing the business models, and ENG and RtF-I in particular, in developing the structure of the exploitation plan, for conducting the market study as well as the review and analysis of inputs contributed by the wider consortium.

Fraunhofer IAO, in the company’s capacity as project manager, has been responsible for clarifying and developing the agreements that make it possible to move forward with the joint and separate exploitation strategies for the different DeveloperSpace exploitation opportunities.



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Finally, all partners are expected to further contribute to the final development of this document before the project ends (M48) and have joint or independent responsibilities for implementing the exploitation plan depending on the nature of the specific product and activity, when applicable.

5.3 Exploitation forms

The Prosperity4all Consortium has identifies the following exploitation forms:

• DeveloperSpace: mostly expected to be sustainable via advertising opportunities in the Unified Listing and, as a whole, by organizations with whom the values are shared.

• Components: exploitation/use of the DeveloperSpace components by commercial and other mainstream and assistive technology providers (including those outside this group) to allow companies and organizations to make their solutions and services accessible.

• Research: exploitation of R&D output by AT vendors .

Table 1, Summary list of all exploitation results

Name Partner’s Name Exploitable Form

Assistance on Demand infrastructure Payment component Security component

SingularLogic S.A. Software product (commercial and other), Services and methodologies

Mouse head, AsTerisc Module. CFR Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos

Services and methodologies

AsTeRICS Packaging Environment (APE)(https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/tree/master/bin/APE) including building block demos (https://github.com/asterics/P4AllBuildingBlocks)

FHTW (UAS Technikum Wien)

Software product (commercial and other)

URC Socket Templates Stuttgart Media University


URC/Eclipse Smart Home Integration Stuttgart Media University


FlashWords application with implemented camera input module of the DeveloperSpace

LIFEtool Software product (commercial and other)



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5.4 IPR management and licensing

All that is developed under the funding of the Prosperity4All project is open-source therefore exploitation of Prosperity4all results are not hampered by IPR. Companies however are able to contribute technologies developed outside of the project and still retain control of all of their background knowledge and code.

The management of the Prosperity4all knowledge and of the IPRs is specified in the Consortium Agreement that was signed by the Partners at the project start. Its content

Community Development AGE Platform Europe N/A

Routing Guidance System CERTH/HIT Software product (commercial and other)

RoboBraille Sensus ApS Services and methodologies

Gamification, Game Design Patterns HdM Software product (commercial and other), Services and methodologies

ARE Runtime Environment University of Cyprus


WebACS and associated clinician/consumer custom solution development environment

KI-I Software product (commercial and other)

Brian and Stepping stones OpenDirective Software product (commercial and other)

Auto-personalization Unified Listing DeveloperSpace

RtF-Int'l Services and methodologies

SpagoBI, Open Source Business Intelligence Suite

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.

Software product (commercial and other), Services and methodologies

Open source code, design tools Inclusive Design Research Centre


MYUI: Mainstreaming Accessibility through Synergistic User Modelling and Adaptability

Clevercherry Software product (commercial and other)

User panel

Ilunion Services and methodologies



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reflects and in some cases complements the terms and conditions defined in the Commission Contractual Rules.

The Consortium Agreement specified that:

• Software developed in this project (foreground) is open source. • Companies will be able to modify their proprietary (background) components to

work with the DeveloperSpace infrastructure. • The modifications they make during the project – that connect to the

DeveloperSpace infrastructure will be controlled by the functional specs from the architecture group and this functionality will be standard and standardized with open license.

• The actual code used to implement a functionality in their existing components will be theirs and, if it was proprietary to start with, the code changes will be proprietary as well when it would reveal information about the structure of their original code.

5.5 Exploitation plan per partner

In this section we include the exploitation plan as defined by the individual consortium partners.

It is important to note that not all partners have exploitable results.

It's also important to note that FINAL plans will be included in the final delivery on M48.

Therefore, some information is still TBD.

5.5.1 Fraunhofer IAO

5.5.1.1 Company profile

Fraunhofer IAO is a leading research and scientific project organization with profound knowledge in the field of technology management. The institute specialized in integrated planning, design and optimization of innovative products, processes and structures. Under consideration of human factors, organizational aspects and technological solutions, Fraunhofer IAO explores new concepts of technology management, work organization and -design. Fraunhofer IAO works in close cooperation with the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT) of the University of Stuttgart. Fraunhofer IAO has been participating in European Research Programmes since 1983.



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5.5.1.2 Exploitation plan

Table 2, Adaptive User Interfaces Framework

Owner Fraunhofer IAO Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name Adaptive User Interfaces Framework Exploitation Form Services and methodologies

Licence Type Open source Business model of product

Adaptive UI Framework is free to the user, revenues will be based on services built upon it

Costs inherents of the business model

Research & Development, User testing

Areas of impact Development of accessible, personalised, and context-specific user interfaces

Beneficiaries (end-users)

Industry, Developers, Academia, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)

Cost of solution for end user

The product itself is free for implementers, services will be chargeable. Costs for people with disabilities will depend on the business models of the implementers.

How end users will benefit

Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Products / equipment, Economic - Consultation

Strategy to disseminate the solution

Marketing and dissemination through the DeveloperSpace, further actions TBC

How P4A helps product lower costs and increase profit?

TBC

Can the solution be exploited by others outside the P4A project?

Yes, other organizations can provide services that build upon the Adaptive UI Framework, too.

5.5.2 RtF-Int'l


Raising the Floor is an organization of diverse people from industry, academia, NGOs and other sectors who have come together to ensure that people who face barriers due to disability, literacy, digital-literacy, and aging are able to fully understand, access, and use the



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digital world we are creating (the web, computers, tablets, phones, educational materials, ticket machines, thermostats, and even home appliances). Our central focus is the development of the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII).


Table 3, Auto-personalization UnifiedListing DeveloperSpace Exploitation plan

Owner RtF-Int'l Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name auto-personalization Unified Listing DeveloperSpace

Exploitation Form Services and methodologies

Licence Type auto-personalization Unified Listing DeveloperSpace-Services and methodologies

Business model of product

Advertising, Crowdfunding, Freemium, Subscription, Government,


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), User testing, Marketing and promotions

Areas of impact anything with a digital interface


Industry, Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), Government/policy makers (national / international), Academia, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)

Cost of solution for end user free to some, cost varies for others


Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Products / equipment, Economic - Industry standards, Economic - Involvement/set up of resources/databases, Societal impact - Policy (national/international)


Engagment, marketing and dissemination through the GPII overall efforts


by providing the center hub with complete access to information, tools and solutions to help avoid redundant work.


All end users



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5.5.3 Inclusive Design Research Centre


The IDRC is a research and development centre at OCAD University where an international community of open source developers, designers, researchers, advocates, and volunteers work together to ensure that emerging information technology and practices are designed inclusivel


Table 4, Open source code and inclusive design tools Exploitation plan

Owner Inclusive Design Research Centre Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name Open source code and inclusive design tools Exploitation Form


Licence Type Open source and open access and creative commons licensed. Business model of product Community, open


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), Research and Development, Required hardware

Areas of impact all verticals benefit from inclusive design thinking and work. There isn't an industry that would not realize benefits.


Industry, Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), Government/policy makers (national / international), Academia, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons), Wider public (please specify in Other), open source community of developers and designers

Cost of solution for end user open


Economic - Spin-out companies (including potential creation of new jobs), Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Products / equipment, Economic - Consultation, Economic - Industry standards, Economic - Codes of practice, Economic - Involvement/set up of resources/databases, Societal impact - Policy (national/international), Societal impact - International development, Societal impact - Training of skilled people to contribute to the knowledge economy (research staff, students, etc.)

Strategy to DEEP conference



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disseminate the solution

various presentations and publications (e.g. OpenEd2016)


The vision of creating a platform for a community to come together and address unmet needs is going to create opportunities.


All verticals benefit.

5.5.4 SingularLogic S.A.


SingularLogic is currently the leading Software and Integrated IT Solutions Group in Greece and among the largest in Greece. The company has a strong position in the market providing tools and integration services. SingularLogic specialises and provides innovative R&D services in the following areas: a) high-complexity Transactional Software Systems in the areas of Environment, Industry, Business, Finance, Insurance, Health and Public Administration; b) innovative integration solution and interoperability technologies; c) e-Inclusion: development of accessible products and services for elderly people and people with disabilities; d) Man-machine interface: web- and voice-enabled applications; e)new software methodologies and tools in the areas of object-oriented software, enterprise modelling, requirements specification; f) consulting in the fields of international co-operation, know-how transfer and deployment of IT solutions worldwide.


Table 5, Assistance on Demand infrastructure Exploitation plan

Owner SingularLogic S.A. Type of organization Commercial

Name Assistance on Demand infrastructure Payment component Security component

Exploitation Form


Licence Type Open source-This is under investigation. Apache is a good candidate.



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Business model of product Brokerage, Crowdfunding, Freemium


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), User testing, Marketing and promotions

Areas of impact - Development of accessible applications - Establishment/offering of accessibility-related services


Industry, Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), Developers of applications

Cost of solution for end user N/A


Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Consultation, Economic - Involvement/set up of resources/databases


- One-to-one meetings with stakeholders - Use of Developer space web portal - Publications - Presentations at conferences/exhibitions


By providing access to accessibility tools, components, guidelines, etc. that are easy to integrate and can save development an surveying time.


All of the solutions built within P4A can be exploited by associations of people with disabilities (especially the AoD) and by developers of products or services (especially the payment and security/IAM components).

5.5.5 HdM


Since the 1st September 2000, Stuttgart Media University has brought together the combined know-how of the former University of Printing and Media, an educational institution with over 100 years of tradition, and the University of Librarianship and Information whose history reaches back to 1942. With 16 Bachelor’s degree programmes and 6 Master’s degree programmes, a part-time MBA, and a doctoral programme, Stuttgart Media University covers a broad spectrum of media expertise: from printed media to electronic media, from mass media and media theory to media production, from media design to making media available.



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Table 6, Gamification, Game Design Patterns Exploitation plan

Owner HdM Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name Gamification, Game Design Patterns Exploitation Form


Licence Type Gamification, Game Design Patterns-Software product (commercial and other), Services and methodologies

Business model of product It's all free. No Hooks.


User testing, Maintenance

Areas of impact Software Development Beneficiaries (end-users)

Industry, Academia, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)

Cost of solution for end user It will be free to the user


Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Products / equipment


Workshops, Tutorials, Streamed Talks


(We are developing FOR the GPII)


The approach aims at Software Developers in general

5.5.6 CERTH/HIT


CERTH is the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (http:// www.certh.gr), a leading research center and the second largest in Greece, was founded in 2000. It is a private law, non-profit organisation under the auspices of the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Development. The mission of CERTH is to carry out basic



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and applied research. It currently consists of 6 Research Institutes. 3 of them participate in Cloud4All, namely the Institute of Biomedical & Biomolecular Research (IBBR), the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT).


Table 7, Routing Guidance System Exploitation plan

Owner CERTH/HIT Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name T301.6 Routing Guidance System Exploitation Form Software product (commercial and other)

Licence Type T301.6 Routing Guidance System-Software product (commercial and other)

Business model of product Free for everyone


Research and Development, User testing, Marketing and promotions

Areas of impact Transport Beneficiaries (end-users) People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)



Economic - Products / equipment, Economic - Involvement/set up of resources/databases, Societal impact - International development


TBC


Take into advantage (software) tools from SP2. They should be used or integrated in order to provide an enhanced routing system incluidning personalisation aspects.


Yes. Any end-user(driver)



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5.5.7 Ilunion


Ilunion Technology & Accessibility former Fundosa Technosite is a technology and consultancy company belonging to the business corporation of ONCE Foundation, which in turn belongs to ONCE, the National Organisation of the Spanish Blind. Ilunion Technology & Accessibility is a company working in the field of the social economy. Over 70% of Ilunion’s staff are people with disabilities and it is precisely this which gives us our competitive edge, since all our technological development and consultancy activities are carried out with accessibility and design for all criteria. Since 2001, Ilunion Technology & Accessibility has provided consultancy, training, assessment and certification in accessibility issues, a business area, which together with R&D, is the company’s main source of income of over 9 million euros in 2008.


Table 8, User panel Exploitation plan

Owner Ilunion Type of organization Commercial

Name User panel Exploitation Form Services and methodologies

Licence Type User panel-Services and methodologies Business model of product b2b contact


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), Research and Development

Areas of impact accessibility, social studies Beneficiaries (end-users)

Industry, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons), Wider public (please specify in Other)



Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Involvement/set up of resources/databases


Commercial b2b meetings

How P4A helps TBC



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product lower costs and increase profit? Can the solution be exploited by others outside the P4A project?

Developers that want to get feedback about their products/ideas

5.5.8 Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.


Engineering has a consolidated presence on all vertical markets and operates through its 4 business units - Public Administration & Healthcare, Telco & Utilities, Industry & Services, Finance - supported by cross-business unit centers of competence and by the Research and Innovation Department which, with its 250 resources, has the dual role of promoting research on software at an international level and transferring innovation to the production cycle of the business structures.

The Group has increased its presence in the Managed Operations field with an integrated network of 5 Data Centers (at Pont-Saint-Martin, Milan, Turin, Vicenza and Rome) organized for the provision of services aimed at the business continuity and management of IT infrastructures.


Table 9, SpagoBI, Open Source Business Intelligence Suite Exploitation plan

Owner Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. Type of organization Commercial

Name SpagoBI, Open Source Business Intelligence Suite Exploitation Form


Licence Type SpagoBI, Open Source Business Intelligence Suite-Software product (commercial and other), Services and methodologies

Business model of product Community, Freemium, Subscription


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), Research and Development

Areas of impact SpagoBI is a BI suite widely used in different domains, currently is widely used in banking, utility, telco and government domains



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from Engineering consulting services or through partners.


Industry, Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), Government/policy makers (national / international), Academia



Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Products / equipment, Economic - Consultation


SpagoBI is a 10 years old suite and has already a strong base of users and an open source community. Companies worldwide have attended specific courses to be able to apply SpagoBI technoogy on local projects.


Adding customization to support visually impaired users will be a benefit to the general market aswell.


All our partners will benefit from the SpagoBI accessibility functionalities.

5.5.9 Sensus ApS


Founded in 1987, Sensus is a research-based consultancy organisation specialising in accessibility, inclusion, information technology and disability. By promoting accessible design, assisting others in creating accessible solutions and developing services that make otherwise inaccessible information available in alternative formats, Sensus works for an accessible and inclusive information society.


Table 10, RoboBraille Exploitation plan

Owner Sensus ApS Type of organization Commercial

Name RoboBraille Exploitation Form Services and methodologies

Licence Type RoboBraille-Services and methodologies



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Business model of product Subscription


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), Research and Development, Marketing and promotions

Areas of impact Education Healthcare Social services


Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), Academia, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)



Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Codes of practice


Sales presentations Conference attendence User group formation Direct communication


N/A


Yes. However, it is costly as significant investments in software licenses (TTS, OCR, other) are required.

5.5.10 KI-I


The prime objective of KI-I is to improve the living conditions of people with disabilities and elderly people. The KI-I can be seen as a platform for information exchange in this area. It builds a bridge between fundamental research, application and teaching. The KI-I offers support for institutions and companies when dealing with projects for the improvement of the integration of people with disabilities in a social and job-related context.

By establishing a network of institutions and companies, a wide spectrum of know-how will flow into projects, which lead to innovations in facilities of the target groups and give incentives for the Upper Austrian economy



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Table 11, WebACS Exploitation plan

Owner KI-I Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name WebACS and associated clinician/consumer custom solution development environment

Exploitation Form Software product (commercial and other)

Licence Type WebACS and associated clinician/consumer custom solution development environment-Software product (commercial and other)



TBC

Areas of impact education, work, free time


Industry, Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), Academia, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)



Economic - Spin-out companies (including potential creation of new jobs), Economic - Consultation, Societal impact - Training of skilled people to contribute to the knowledge economy (research staff, students, etc.)


workshops, conference papers, presentations, presentation to advisory board


TBC


anyone (it is Open Source)



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5.5.11 FHTW (UAS Technikum Wien)


With around 9,000 graduates thus far and roughly 4,000 students, the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien is Austria’s largest purely technical university of applied sciences. The educational offerings consist of 13 bachelor’s and 18 master’s degree programs, which are offered as full-time, part-time and/or distance study programs. Eight degree programs are taught in English. The educational offerings are based on a solid scientific foundation and are also practice-oriented. At UAS Technikum Wien, emphasis is not only placed on providing a high-quality technical education, but also on subjects with a focus on business and personal development. Close ties and collaborations with business and industry give students and graduates excellent career opportunities. The combination of theory and practical application is of central importance in both research and instruction.


Table 12, AsTeRICS Packaging Environment Exploitation plan

Owner FHTW (UAS Technikum Wien) Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name

AsTeRICS Packaging Environment (APE)(https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/tree/master/bin/APE) including building block demos (https://github.com/asterics/P4AllBuildingBlocks)


Licence Type

AsTeRICS Packaging Environment (APE)(https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS/tree/master/bin/APE) including building block demos (https://github.com/asterics/P4AllBuildingBlocks)-Software product (commercial and other)

Business model of product Community


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), Research and Development, Required hardware, Maintenance

Areas of impact education communication general access to ICT


Industry, Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), Academia, People with Disabilities (including



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relatives or caring persons) Cost of solution for end user It will be free to the user


Economic - Products / equipment, Economic - Consultation, Economic - Codes of practice, Societal impact - International development, Societal impact - Training of skilled people to contribute to the knowledge economy (research staff, students, etc.)


*) Create tutorials, documentation *) Create demo web page and demo installer *) Create repository with demo configurations *) Create screencasts *) Go to exhibitions and conferences


Dissemination GPII infrastructure: First discovery tool --> Asterics/APE AoD infrastructure: Link to customization service


Any company or organization who wants to create AT fast and individualized. e.g. AT carers, universities, relatives,...

5.5.12 University of Cyprus


University of Cyprus aims to establish itself as a Pioneer Research Institution achieving International Scientific Recognition in European Higher Education, offering Competitive Programmes and to become a Centre of Excellence in the wider Euro - Mediterranean Region.

The main objectives of the University are twofold: the promotion of scholarship and education through teaching and research, and the enhancement of the cultural, social and economic development of Cyprus.

In this context, the University believes that education must provide more than simply accumulation of knowledge. It must also encourage students' active participation in the process of learning and acquisition of those values necessary for responsible involvement in the community. The University sets high standards for all branches of scholarship.

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Table 13, ARE Runtime Environment Exploitation plan

Owner University of Cyprus Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name ARE Runtime Environment Exploitation Form Software product (commercial and other)

Licence Type ARE Runtime Environment-Software product (commercial and other)



Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), Research and Development, Licensing

Areas of impact Health, accessibility


Industry, Public sector/third sector (schools, libraries, health centers, other), People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons), Wider public (please specify in Other)



Economic - Industry standards, Societal impact - Training of skilled people to contribute to the knowledge economy (research staff, students, etc.)


Participation in local events in Cyprus such as "ΜΕ ΤΗ ΜΑΤΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΡΕΥΝΗΤΗ 2014 (Through Researcher's Eyes 2014)", participation in accessibility events, Conferences, Workshops



Yes, mainly by developers and researchers in the area of accessibility, e-Health and Smart Home

5.5.13 CFR Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos


Consorcio "Fernando de los Ríos” (CFR), is a public company based in the city of Granada, Andalusia, which has been commissioned by the Regional Government of Andalusia together



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with the eight Provincial Councils to develop those projects and actions leading to the implementation of the Information Society and Knowledge among citizen.

The objectives that the CFR has arisen to develop this task are: Increase the percentage of population using ICT, encourage ICT use as a tool for citizen participation in all aspects of public life, in civil, institutional, social and political, and promote user-driven social innovation allowing projects growth in community.

Guadalinfo is the main project of the CFR, composed of more than 770 centers

and facilitators, located in towns under 20,000 and disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods all over Andalusia


Table 14, Mouse head, AsTerisc Module Exploitation plan

Owner CFR Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name Mouse head, AsTerisc Module. Exploitation Form Services and methodologies

Licence Type Mouse head, AsTerisc Module.-Services and methodologies Business model of product TBC


Research and Development

Areas of impact Inclusion, education Beneficiaries (end-users) People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)


How end users will benefit Inclusion


TBC


Through the developer's space. Offering modules to be implemented easily in other platforms or OS

Can the solution be exploited by others outside

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the P4A project?

5.5.14 OpenDirective


OpenDirective LLP is dedicated to facilitating open innovation in software by identifying software products and opportunities that are approaching the chasm between early adopters and the early majority.

They have a focus on exploratory technologies that stem from research or are developed for internal use. Their current key activity is in mobile and accessibility / AT where they provide consultancy and development services. By facilitating open innovation through engagement with Open Source software, OpenDirective helps make companies more innovative, capable, and cost efficient.


Table 15, Brian and Stepping stones Exploitation plan

Owner OpenDirective Type of organization Commercial

Name Brian and Stepping stones Exploitation Form Software product (commercial and other)

Licence Type Brian and Stepping stones-Software product (commercial and other)

Business model of product Community, Freemium, Subscription


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), User testing, Maintenance

Areas of impact health Beneficiaries (end-users) People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)

Cost of solution for end user <100€/year and <500€/year


Economic - Spin-out companies (including potential creation of new jobs), Economic - Processes / procedures, Economic - Products / equipment, Economic - Consultation, Economic - Industry standards, Economic - Codes of practice, Economic - Inward investment



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easy connection with other collaborators. Support


Anyone look for examples of good practice or willing to use Javascript components

5.5.15 LIFEtool


The corporate purpose of LIFEtool gemeinnützige GmbH is research & development and counseling in the field of Assistive Technologies, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), learning and training software for children, adolescents, adults and older people with physical and/or mental disabilities. Last research activities: LiveEOG, HOMEdotOLD, AT-LAB, Mobile.Old, Fun-tast-tisch, Prosperity4All, MOSES, SocialCare


Table 16, FlashWords application Exploitation plan

Owner LIFEtool Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name FlashWords application with implemented camera input module of the DeveloperSpace


Licence Type FlashWords application with implemented camera input module of the DeveloperSpace-Software product (commercial and other)

Business model of product Transaction


Business operation cost (rent, salaries, equipment, etc.), Research and Development, User testing

Areas of impact education Beneficiaries (end-users) People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)

Cost of solution It will be free to the user



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for end user How end users will benefit

Societal impact - Training of skilled people to contribute to the knowledge economy (research staff, students, etc.)


TBC


TBC


TBC

5.5.16 Clevercherry


CleverCherry.com is a leading interactive design and web development company. We have a proven track record in building online applications and web based collaboration tools for industry. We have worked with many industry sectors, and clients include NHS, Local Government, Time Warner, Jaguar and Landrover. Clevercherry.com offers a full-service web development studio and is comprised of talented designers, programmers, project managers and support staff. This team effort can provide clean, organized, easily navigated, and visually appealing web applications with interactive functionality and with full accessibility. The team have extensive experience of e-accessibility development.


Table 17, MYUI Exploitation plan

Owner clevercherry Type of organization Commercial

Name MYUI: Mainstreaming Accessibility through Synergistic User Modelling and Adaptability


Licence Type MYUI: Mainstreaming Accessibility through Synergistic User Modelling and Adaptability-Software product (commercial and other)

Business model Community



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of product Costs inherents of the business model

User testing, Marketing and promotions

Areas of impact Beneficiaries (end-users)

Industry, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons)



Economic - Products / equipment, Societal impact - Training of skilled people to contribute to the knowledge economy (research staff, students, etc.)


TBC


TBC


TBC

5.5.17 Stuttgart Media University


Since the 1st September 2001, Stuttgart Media University has brought together the combined know-how of the former University of Printing and Media, an educational institution with over 100 years of tradition, and the University of Librarianship and Information whose history reaches back to 1942. With 16 Bachelor’s degree programmes and 6 Master’s degree programmes, a part-time MBA, and a doctoral programme, Stuttgart Media University covers a broad spectrum of media expertise: from printed media to electronic media, from mass media and media theory to media production, from media design to making media available.



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Table 18, URC Socket Templates Exploitation plan

Owner Stuttgart Media University Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name URC Socket Templates Exploitation Form Software product (commercial and other)

Licence Type URC Socket Templates-Software product (commercial and other) Business model of product Community, research founding



Areas of impact internet of things Beneficiaries (end-users) Industry, Academia


How end users will benefit simplified / unified programming interface


P4a meetings, student courses


TBC


user interface developers including AT developers

Table 19, URC/Eclipse Smart Home Integration Exploitation plan

Owner Stuttgart Media University Type of organization Not-for-profit

Name URC/Eclipse Smart Home Integration Exploitation Form Software product (commercial and other)

Licence Type URC/Eclipse Smart Home Integration-Software product



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(commercial and other) Business model of product Community



Areas of impact Internet of Things, Smart Home, AAL


Industry, Academia, People with Disabilities (including relatives or caring persons), Wider public (please specify in Other), everyone who wants/needs a personalized Smart Home


How end users will benefit Personalized access to Smart Home technologies


Student courses, workshops with Eclipse Smart Home developers, conferences


TBC


Smart Home users / developers

5.6 DeveloperSpace exploitation plan During the time between the end of Prosperity4All grant and the launch of the GPII, the

DeveloperSpace plans its sustainability mostly through private and public finding and

advertising in the form of sponsorthip, mostly via the Unified Listing.

The specific timeline for the DeveloperSpace is:

• September 11th, 2017 - Official presentation at the AAATE Congress

• December 2017 and January 2018 - Major launch of the more robust and populated

DeveloperSpace.

This exploitation plan, as isolated center hub for developing access technologies, will be

further analyzed and study so it can be included in much detail in the final Exploitation Plan.


http://www.aaate2017.eu/


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5.7 Joint exploitation approach As previously mentioned, this plan is intended to create business offerings based on Prosperity4all/Cloud4All/GPII as a whole.

5.7.1 The GPII strategy

The exploitation of the Prosperity4all results will be done as a joint effort with the results of Cloud4All, Fluid, RERC and APCP projects

The GPII website will integrate all of the developments carried out by these projects, as well as those products and services resulting from other global funded initiatives. Stakeholders will use GPII website as the main entry point. However, all pieces work independently, allowing other organizations to integrate “the parts” into their websites, platforms, or create new ones.

The implementation of GPII involves the integration of the following major elements, or spaces, into the GPII web space, entry point from which users will be guided depending on their needs:

• Unified Listing (where to FIND resources) • Auto-personalization solutions, temporarily known as UBIYU (where to PERSONALIZE

access) • DeveloperSpace (where to CREATE, or participate in creating solutions)

Figure 5: Explaining the building of GPII



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Table 20, GPII Exploitation plan



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The exploitation plan of the GPII includes the potential for:

• End-users to purchase products, software or services • Developers to sell their developments to distributors or producers • Vendors to sell their products or services through the ecosystem • The option for bids to be generated, so demand will justify creation of solution • Offering of GPII related services (support in installing, integrating, training, etc.) • Organizations to help fundraising via donations in-kind and in-funds • Advertising • Other (as the GPII exploitation strategy is currently an ongoing process.

5.7.2 Organizational structure

The GPII will be led by Raising the Floor – International (RtF-I), with participation by a large consortium of stakeholders (described below).

The actual GPII website will be hosted by Raising the Floor – International, based in Geneva, Switzerland, and serve as the neutral base from which such a global and public initiative can emerge and grow.

An organizational structure and team to lead and maintain GPII.net will include:

• An Advisory Board to oversee and govern the use of GPII, its data, developments, security and other delicate and legal issues concerning privacy and other rights.

• A Data Ethics Council that will serve as the oversight body protecting all user data resources and systems in the GPII (the creation of the Council already in progress, funded by the APCP project).

• A Technical Advisory Board to oversee the technical developments. • A Senior Management team responsible for ensuring its sustainability and overall

operation and growth. The team will overall management and include the data privacy officer.

• An Operations team responsible for ensuring the day-to-day operation of the infrastructures. This includes the design and maintenance of the site and services. The team will include Developers, Designers, DevOps, Content providers and others.

• A Contributing community, committed to take responsibility on a specific role, project or initiative, contributing to the growth and sustainability of GPII. Contributing members may be individuals, organizations or companies, and their contributions can be in kind or in funds (via donations or other).



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5.7.3 From strategy to implementation

Raising the Floor international (RtF-I) will be the Champion to drive this effort forward, ensuring communication and coordination between all players involved in the implementation.

There are several RtF-I organizations or initiatives in multiple locations internationally to facilitate internationa coordination:

• RtF – I (Switzerland, International office and Brussels, European office) • RtF – US (United States) • RtF – CA (Canada)

The main actions to deploy the GPII include:

1. End-user engagement 2. Developer engagement 3. Industry engagement 4. Public sector engagement 5. On-going research and development 6. Community building 7. Sustainability

5.7.3.1 End-user engagement

These efforts include:

• Website • Newsletter • Social media platforms • General dissemination (networks, meetings, etc.) • Workshops and webinars • Media/PR • Scientific publications and Conference presentations • Audio-visual media • Other

The expected outcomes are for End-user stakeholders to:

• Find it easy to learn about GPII, its benefits and solutions. • Reach, access and participate in the creation of, new solutions for auto-personalizing

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• Register their devices, for an easy install of the auto-personalization solution (based on Cloud4All work) with any GPII compatible device.

• Participate in providing their needs for new solutions, or participate in testing or other development-related activity.

5.7.3.2 Developer engagement

Developers, designers and others interested in developing accessible and auto-personalized solutions, tools and services will be reached and invited to join the GPII. The above-mentioned strategies will also be set in place to inform them and attract their interest and attention; specific messages will be created for them, for the terminology and knowledge level may vary.

Additionally the GPII will ensure that specific webinars and training workshops are organized for this group of stakeholders.

The expected outcomes are for Developer stakeholders to:

• Search the GPII for all AT type of solutions for their developments, clients, other. • Join the developer community and participate in the creation or co-creation of new

solutions. • Use the existing developments to either create new, integrate them into new systems,

or other. • Access the ”parts” they need for their new developments, tap into a wider similar-

minded community, develop and/or distribute their solutions, as well as use those that are available through GPII.

• Begin to use the market place to either get resources (commercial or non-commercial) or offer their own resources (for free or for a cost)

• Register their devices and begin to use GPII. • Access real users to learn from them, engage them in their development, etc.

5.7.3.3 Industry engagement

Industry engagement will utilize the same approaches mentioned in the End-User and Developer Engagement sections of this document and will target the AT industry, as well as the mainstream ICT industry.

The expected outcomes are for Industry stakeholders to:

• List their solutions in GPII. • Sell their products and services, as a way to expand their market.



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• Tap into communities of innovative developers focusing on existing, not serviced, needs and may identify potential business possibilities.

• Understand and use GPII as a way to act globally and reach newer markets. • Tap into end-users and learn about them, their needs, and choose to involve them in

their development, evaluation of products and services, etc.

5.7.3.4 Public sector engagement

Public Sector engagement will utilize the same approaches mentioned in the above sections of this document and will specifically target public institutions and organizations in particular (including not-for-profit organizations).

The expected outcomes are for these to:

• Contribute to spreading the word (awareness), via inclusion in newsletters, use of social media channels, etc.

• Help influence policy makers in policies related to inclusion, ageing and digital literacy in general.

• Join the larger GPII community, as supporters of the GPII’s mission. • Serve as facilitators to the GPII Advisory and leadership teams, providing leads to

contacts that can contribute in any way to the growth and sustainability of the GPII. • Take active part in the deployment of the first GPII initiatives (i.e. be first adopters of

GPII, encourage their audiences to engage in community spaces like Participate, Testing or by creating their own access tokens and demonstrating it to peers), which will be targeted to specific first focus areas (i.e. Education, Health, Libraries, other)

5.7.3.5 On-going research and development

Researchers are seen as both users and contributers to the DeveloperSpace and general infrastructure. Outreach to them will involve both the above strategies as well as efforts targeted at professors and doctoral students who can both use contents of the DeveloperSpace to accelerate their research, and use the dissemination and marketing tools to help move their more mature work out to the market.

The expected outcomes are for researchers to:

• Evolve on the current work and publish the outcomes of such novelties. • Continue publishing innovative outputs in journals and other accredited publications. • Continue developing or piloting new solutions that can be deployed via the GPII and

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5.7.3.6 Community building

The GPII is a global initiative, one in which the “world” can participate in different ways and forms. The GPII plans on creating and sustaining communities related to the use and creation of auto-personalization solutions, cloud and non-cloud.

The expected outcomes are:

• Growth of the Developer Space community. • Growth of the overall GPII community, through registry via GPII. • Creation of new communities (i.e. end-users, policy-makers, educators, librarians,

museums and as many as sectors in society there are).

5.7.4 Sustainability

In order to ensure that the exploitation described can take place, a sustainability plan for continuous development, maintenance, innovation and support of the GPII is crucial.

The sustainability plan for the GPII/DeveloperSpace consists of two elements:

1. A plan for continued growth in participation 2. A plan for revenue to cover the costs for operation

The plan for continued growth in participation includes:

• Collaboration amongst partners to continue beyond the project ends, by ensuring that there’s an open communication/information channel and ways to engage them into making all, and more, tools and overall Prosperity4all/Cloud4All/GPII solutions, mature and successful.

• Continued growth of the infrastructure via the open-source communities of developers.

• Continued support of the results of the Prosperity4all/Cloud4All/GPII, so the solutions created within the projects can continue to be developed and maintained after the end of these two projects, by engaging external-to-the project stakeholders, communities and initiatives.

• Ensuring that a technical team and infrastructure are in place to support all of the above. This includes maintenance of the solutions, repository, tools and services, insuring privacy and security, handling the logistics required (when applicable), etc.

• Continuing to identify opportunities for future research and development, therefore promoting the sustainability of the project’s individual results.



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It is envisaged that a significant amount of developers and other stakeholders may engage with the GPII community and invest effort into the creation, distribution and commercialization.

• Several partners have also pledged to contribute unfunded efforts towards maintenance of the project results. This includes CERTH, SILO, Illunion, Raising the Floor – International, Raising the Floor – US, OCAD University, and the Trace R&D Center.

• Other user communities may contribute in the future and the project’s open source plan will provide such communities with a mechanism for participation going forward.

5.7.5 Revenue Generation

The plan for revenue generation includes:

• Advertising on appropriate parts of the website. • Commissions from sales of products via the openMarketplace. • Revenue from operation of services. • Revenue from auto-personalization keytokens and materials. • Grants for research. • Contributions,

Several paths toward sustainability were outlined in 4.6.1 section of this document (The GPII strategy section), and include public funding, private funding and community contributions. The sustainability activities detailed here encompass all three of these aspects:

5.7.5.1 GPII Operations Generated Revene

These include

• Advertising – in the different spaces encompassing the GPII.net website. • Auto-personalization Key-Access token - charges would apply when requesting

support to get a key-access-token (something that could be done by the user but they may prefer someone else to do so for them)

• Specific features or early access to services. • GPII integration support – charges to apply when helping companies, organizations or

individuals with the integration of GPII into their organizations, products, or other. • GPII maintenance fee – to provide support services to those organizations making

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• Consulting – offering expert advising and consulting services to governments and other public institutions who need support in communicating the need for GPII in their organizations, help and guidance on how to do so, etc.

• Commisions on openMarketplace sales

5.7.5.2 Public Funding

Public funding has been given to continue the development of some GPII components through the Prosperity4all Fp7 EC such as the development of the DeveloperSpace infrastructure, which is a key element of the GPII. Similarly, other projects like APCP or RERC continue developing the last key major pieces of the GPII, so it is ready to be deployed, globally.

RtF-I has secured international funds to develop a comprehensive cloud solution, as well as know-how and expertise produced by the Prosperity4all and Cloud4All projects, which will contribute and be reused, to guarantee the success of the GPII with the mission to have a major global impact.

Social Impact Bonds are also being explored.

5.7.5.3 Private Funding

GPII expects to receive donations from private individuals, companies and organizations that support the work the consortium is doing toward launching the GPII.

A more extensive GPII exploitation plan is currently under development in connection with the APCP project.

5.7.6 Monitoring, evaluating and learning

The GPII is a new concept, and this means there is no similar initiative at present, and that its deployment should be treated as a pilot that will need to be tested, evaluated and re-directed, according to the learnings generated throughout the first two years of deployment.

The Operations team will set a plan in place to ensure that all exploitation expected outcomes are achieved through the actions described above. The plan will include:

• Monitoring. Ensuring there are controls that ensure that the basic elements are in place and functioning properly. This includes the GPII website and its sub-spaces (Unified Listing, Ubiyu and DeveloperSpace). Ensuring all improvements concerning



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easy and user-friendly access, security, cross-platform integration, overall quality and capacity to grow in number of users, is in place, monitored and improved.

• Evaluating. On-going evaluation of each of the activities listed above, allowing time to revise and re-think a more efficient tactic that will serve the appropriate strategy and gain the desired outputs.

• Learning. Ensuring that the evaluation analysis results in learning outputs that can be brought into the next phase of actions led by the GPII. The lessons learned will be incorporated at a later stage, meaning that the current document, and current GPII, will be subject to changes.

5.8 Timeline

• The DeveloperSpace will have its gran opening during the AAATE Congress in September of 2017.

• The major dissemination and engagement effort will gain maximum strength during the last 3 months of the project, from November 2017 throughout January 2018.

• At that point, the GPII global team will ensure the DeveloperSpace continues to grow and evolve and become a major hub for accessible development and location where to find and buy and sell solutions, until the deployment of the GPII is ready to be deployed as an integrated inclusive infrastructure.

• The GPII plans on conducting its fully integrated launch before the end of the APCP project on September 2020.

5.9 Important results achieved The Prosperity4all has:

• Identified the main value propositions.

• Identified the market potential, including AT markets.

• Identified the key components with exploitable results, both as product and research.

• Identified and developed a joined exploitation strategy.

• Identified the organizational structure to bring GPII into the market.

This version of the exploitation document has included some detail in regards to the specific

plans and activities to be carried out by partners, and the consortium as a whole. It is

expected to have this section more fleshed out in the final document.



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5.10 Future interim goals The two main goals that will be crucial for the Prosperity4All project are:

• The official deployment of the DeveloperSpace in September of 2017, its evaluation and revision to adapt to the potential improvements before the project ends, for a final evaluation run-through.

• To create a successful, scalable, and sustainable operation of the GPII, beyond the Prosperity4All project.



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6 Conclusions

This document provides an initial view of the consortium to the exploitation approach of Prosperity4all's DeveloperSpace, once the project is completed. Each partner has begun to define its own exploitation model (when relevant). In addition the DeveloperSpace exploitation form, and a GPII joint exploitation approach are underway.

The Prosperity4All project builds on the solutions and knowledge acquired through the Cloud4All project and other GPII related projects. As the GPII advances, there is an increased opportunity to succeed and become sustainable, not only individually per parts or components, but as a global inclusive infrastructure (GPII) that benefits and profits all in some way or form.

Finally, the work done supports the current European Commission's:

• Better access for consumers and businesses to online goods and services across Europe – this requires the rapid removal of key differences between the online and offline worlds to break down barriers to cross-border online activity.

• Creating the right conditions for digital networks and services to flourish – this requires high-speed, secure and trustworthy infrastructures and content services, supported by the right regulatory conditions for innovation, investment, fair competition and a level playing field.

• Maximizing the growth potential of our European Digital Economy – this requires investment in ICT infrastructures and technologies such as Cloud computing and Big Data, and research and innovation to boost industrial competiveness as well as better public services, inclusiveness and skills.

6.1 Key learnings During the next year the consortium will be able to gather the necessary data (from evaluations, growth, engagement strategies and tests of the parts, components and of the overall infrastructure) to provide detailed key learnings, identify opportunities for improvement and highlight successfull innovative strategies' being adopted, globally.

6.2 Next steps During the next year, and before the project ends, the Prosperity4All Consortium will need to:

1. Formalize the Exploitation Agreement. 2. Finalize the evaluation of all the solutions developed by the project.



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3. Finalize the Guidelines to use, improve and implement all the Prosperity4all related solutions.

4. Ensure that all partners agree to disseminate the project results and end of project. 5. Ensure all partners communicate the on-going work done through the also EC funded

Prosperity4all project. 6. Review all deliverables. 7. Evaluate results. 8. Ensure key learnings are extracted and used by the Prosperity4all partners, to

improve the life of the DeveloperSpace and ensure the success of the launch of GPII as a whole, and all of its parts.



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