ATIS4all

Inclusive ICT and assistive technologies are essential for enabling full participation in society for many people, notably people with disabilities and elderly people. These technologies allow people to participate more fully in the knowledge society by mitigating barriers many face in their daily life environments. However, several studies have concluded that there is a significant fragmentation of the AT market, to the detriment of both consumers and producers of AT. Two European Thematic Networks, ATIS4ALL and ETNA, will work together for three years to establish an open, collaborative portal, ATIS4all collaborative portal, that will  provide registered members functionality to get information from an specific ICT-based AT product through a search engine in distributed databases, as well as the possibility of expressing and receiving opinion and experience on ICT-based ATs products and services through a 'community' by mean of web 2.0 technologies.