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Related projects and initiatives
Below you can find a list of links to other initiatives or projects related to enhancing accessibility through geographic information systems. If you know about other helpful services, apps and websites please tell us! We may add them to this list or use them otherwise in our project work. Contact us by email via info(at)CAP4access(dot)eu.
Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS):
You can get the latest information about our (CAP4Access) interaction with user communities on this website. | |
Our project is funded by the CAPs Initiative of the European Commission. | |
An overview of all CAPS projects funded under the CAPS call in FP7. |
Specific CAPS Projects:
CAPS2020 | Organizes activites to promote visibility and networking among CAPs projects and social innovation actors, including an annual international conference focusing on CAPS. |
Catalyst | Is a two-year project funded by the European Commission, which will develop and test collective intelligence tools and make them available as open source solutions to interested communities. |
Is a 30 month Collaborative project, funded by the EU, to promote the development of digital innovations that have the capacity to address societal challenges. | |
Is a Europe-wide project creating privacy-aware tools and applications for direct democracy and economic empowerment. | |
A research project funded by the European Commission to investigate the potential of social platforms in mitigating climate change. | |
Is an online platform on which existing CAPS projects can be discussed to evaluate their social and economic impact. | |
Is a project aimed at providing a deeper understanding of commons-based peer production (CBPP) to sustain communities of collaborative production. | |
SciCafe | Science Cafe is a forum for the discussion of scientific issues, which are hosted at various public venues and are accessible to audiences interested in science. |
USEMP | A project funded by the EU, which aims to develop a framework that will empower users by enhancing their control over the data they distribute or interact with. |
Web COmmunities for Statistics for Social Innovation is designed to improve people's engagement with statistics. | |
Is an independent initiative to open up the process of corporate sustainability allowing all stakeholders to be better informed about company practices. |
Accessible Places – Tagging:
| AbleRoad | Is a website and app project that collects user generated accessibility reviews for businesses and public spaces in the U.S. |
| Access Advisr wants to create a user community to gather “information about the ease-of-access at shops, cafes, nightclubs, transport stops and stations” in the UK. | |
Access Together | Another Google Maps-based tagging plattform for neighbrhood accessibility information in the US. |
| A simple to use accessibility tagging platform based on Google Maps and Google Places. AXSLab is a nonprofit from NYC that is actively seeking to build communities to support the inclusion of people with disabilities. | |
Provides information about stylish venues (Restaurants, Bars etc.) in London, fashion and products for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility. | |
CITY Initiatives for Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a resource designed to help city governments develop policy to support innovation and entrepreneurship. | |
DisabledGo Inclusive Britain | Two services with lots of detailed information about accessible venues in the UK. |
| Euan's Guide | The Guide offers disabled access reviews for Europe and some more countries although the focus lies on the UK. |
| HandicapX App | The app provides information about accessible toilets in Germany, Austria, Swiss and Liechtenstein. |
| i-Scope Project | The i-scope project is an EU-policy support programme and provides a crowdsourcing app called ‘Architectural Barriers Survey’ to enable citizens to gather the architectural barriers in their city. |
Is a French accessibility tagging plattform with detailed information about places to go, accomodation, restaurants, doctors and much more. It is available as an app or via browser. | |
Megafone | The megafone communities from Geneva and Barcelona show us how many inaccessible places actually exist in our cities by collecting photographs of inaccessible places and barriers and presenting them on an online map. |
The homepage includes a very detailed Google Maps-based accessibility tagging plattform for people with limited physical mobility. It furthermore offers a knowledge and address database and a discussion board. | |
On Wheels | On Wheels app has recently been launched to provide detailed information to wheelchair users about the accessibility of buildings, supermarkets, shops, pubs, restaurants, parking lots etc. It is a crowdsourced app that works for 5 big Flemish cities: Ghent, Antwerp, Hasselt, Kortrijk and Bruges. |
The Map offers a desktop and a app-based map with accessibility information for Zurich, Switzerland. It includes information about wheelchair accessible accomodation, toilets and parking facilities. | |
Parking Mobility | This app for the U.S. lets you report disability parking violations via an app. This collectively gathered data can be used to educate local authorities about the problem of disability parking spaces misuse. |
| Predif Geoportal Mapaccesible Discapnet | If you are planning to travel to Spain these websites might be interesting. The organizations offer a summary of accessible tourist sites visualised on a map. |
| Rollstuhlkarte MobileMenschen | The two projects from Switzerland and Germany use the same database as Wheelmap.org (i.e. Openstreetmap.org) and add accessibility and public transport information (like bus or tram lines). |
| Südtirol für alle (Italian and German) | Accessibility app and website of the Italian tourism region of South Tyrol with professionally gathered information. It includes accessible accommodation, hikes, cultural activities etc. |
A kickstarter funded app that helps wheelchair users navigate through the New York City subway system. | |
An initiative of CAP4Access partner Sozialhelden e.V. Allows users to find accessible places on a map covering the whole world. If the wheelchair-accessibility of a place has not been reviewed yet, users are invited to tag places themselves. | |
Woussoul | A wheelchair accessibility tagging website with a focus on Morocco. |
A map for disabled people in the city of Castellón, Spain. Provides accessibility information for local services, such as hairdressers, dentists, etc. It also includes accessible routes to reach different service places in the city. |
Navigation, Routes & Routing:
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| Is an Austrian research project (2013-2015) that is developing an OSM-based navigation app for wheelchair users. Data gathering will concentrate on the centre of Gleisberg, a small town near Graz, as the project's pilot test area. |
A mobile application that presents different sight-seeing routes for people with visual and hearing impairment as well as wheelchair users in Bonn, Germany. | |
CROSS | Citizen Reinforcing Open Smart Synergies (CROSS) is a project co-financed by the European Union, which aims to deal with accessibility challenges. Its four pilot cities include Rome, Turin, Manchester and Seville. |
This website from Montpellier and Rennes, France, shows accessible routes with nice integration of public sector information like curb heights. | |
Urban Accessibility | |
Project Sidewalk | University of Maryland's project on sidewalks and routing enables users to rate sidewalks by accessibility in Washington. |
Rollstuhlrouting | An accessible routing prototype that has been developed by the CAP4Access partner GIScience Group at Heidelberg University. Unfortunately detailed accessibility information is limited to parts of Bonn and Heidelberg, Germany. |
Simon - Assisted mobility for older and impaired users | The EU funded project aims at independent living and societal participation of mobility impaired people. It has started in 2014 and is developing applications with a focus on disabled parking and multiple transport modes. |
String Box | String Box is an App developed by the STRING project (Smart Tourist Routes for Inclusive Groups), which aims to create fully accessible thematic itineraries. People can freely access these routes as well as a variety of proposed activities with experienced guides who can handle the needs of travelers. |
| walks with wheelchairs | Here you can find a collection of accessible trips in the UK and you can add your own walks. |
wege finden | A project to pilot test wheelchair routing in Vienna. It is part of a bigger research project that is developing an online Barrier Information System (BIS) for Vienna. |
Wheel Guide App | Another promising routing project that is currently being developed by University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany. |
Wheeliz is a peer-to-peer wheelchair adapted car rental service that brings together owners and renters of wheelchair accessible vehicles on a digital platform. |
Prizes and Awards:
The award recognises cities for their efforts to remove barriers in key aspects of everyday life. It highlights the most successful initiatives that allow people with disabilities to participate fully in society and to enjoy their fundamental rights on an equal footing with others.The award covers 4 key areas of accessibility: the built environment and public spaces; transport and related infrastructure; ICTs; and public facilities and services. | |
Annual list of the world's most inspiring examples of social innovation, where digital technologies have been used to tackle a significant social challenge. Both Wheelmap and the OpenStreetMap are among the winners. | |
Social Innovation Tournament | It is the flagship initiative of the European Investment Bank Institute’s Social Programme. It is organised annually in a different country to reward European entrepreneurs with the best projects aimed at creating a positive social, ethical or environmental impact. |
Literature
This is an overview of literature related to our project.
Community Mapping and Public Participatory GIS
Cinderby, S. (2010): How to reach the ‘hard-to-reach’: the development of Participatory Geographic Information Systems (P-GIS) for inclusive urban design in UK cities. In: Area 42, 239–251.
Ellul, C., Haklay, M., Francis, L. & H. Rahemtulla (2009): A Mechanism to Create Community Maps for Non-Technical Users.
Forrester, J. & S. Cinderby (2014): Community Mapping and Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS).
Orban-Ferauge, F. (2011): Participatory geographic information systems and land planning. Life experiences for people empowerment and community transformation. In collaboration with V. Aguilar, E. Alarcon, A. Carmona, N. Daix, B. Denil, A. Ignacio, J. Martinez, M. McCall, G.Miscione, E. Olivarez, M. Pandan. G. Rambaldi, R. Teruel, J. Verplanke.
Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information and Openstreetmap
Bakillah, M., Liang, S. H. L., Zipf, A. & J. J. Arsanjani (2013): Semantic Interoperability of Sensor Data with Volunteered Geographic Information: A Unified Model. In: ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2(3), 766-796.
Benkler, Y. (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Eagle, N. (2011): Mobile Phones as Social Sensors. In: Hesse-Biber, S. N. (Ed.): The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Oxford. Link
Haklay, M., Singleton, A., & C. Parker (2008): Web Mapping 2.0: The Neogeography of the GeoWeb. In: Geography Compass 2/6, 2011-2039. Link
Haklay, M. & P. Weber (2008): Openstreetmap: User-Generated Street Maps. The OpenStreetmap project is a knowledge collective that provides user-generated street maps. Link
Haklay, M. (2010): How good is volunteered geographical information? A comparative study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey datasets. In: Environment and Planning B 37, 682-703. Link
Haklay, M., Antoniou, V., Basiouka, S., Soden, R. & P. Mooney (2014): Crowdsourced geographic information use in government. Report to GFDRR (World Bank). London. Link
Mearns, G., Simmonds, R., Richardson, R., Turner, M., Watson, P. & P. Missier (2014): Tweet My Street: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration for the Analysis of Local Twitter Data. In: Future Internet 6, no. 2: 378-396. Link
Neis, P., Zielstra, D., Zipf, A. & A. Strunck (2010): Empirische Untersuchungen zur Datenqualität von OpenStreetMap – Erfahrungen aus zwei Jahren Betrieb mehrerer OSM-Online Dienste. Conference: Angewandte Geoinformatik 2010 - 22. AGIT-Symposium Salzburg, Austria (German).
Neis, P. & D. Zielstra (2014): Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap. In: Future Internet 6 (1), 76-106.
Neis. A., Zielstra, D. (2014): Generation of a tailored routing network for disabled people based on collaboratively collected geodata. Applied Geography. Volume 47, 70–77.
Neis, P. & A. Zipf (2012): Analyzing the Contributor Activity of a Volunteered Geographic Information Project — The Case of OpenStreetMap. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 1, 146-165.
Papadopoulou, C.-A. & M. Giaoutzi (2014): Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Knowledge Acquisition in Spatial Planning. In: Future Internet 6, no. 1: 109-125. Link
Sui, D., Elwood, S., & M. Goodchild (2013): Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice.
Surowiecki, J. (2005). The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. New York.
University of California Santa Barbara et al. (2007): Workshop on Volunteered Geographic Information, December 13-14, 2007. Presentations and Position Papers can be viewed here.
Open Data and Public Sector Information
Bakillah, M. & A. Zipf (2013): Open Data Opportunities. In: GIM International Oktober 2013, 38-43.
Cortada, J.W., Nix, V.A. & L.C., Reyes, (2011): Opening up Government: How to Unleash the Power of information for new economic Growth. IBM Institute for Business Value, USA. Link
Raper, J. (2012): Open Data: Policy, Platforms and Practice. Keynote at Spirgarten Treffen 2012.
Vickery, G. (2011): Review of Recent Studies on PSI Re-Use and Related Market Developments.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Church, R. L. & J. R. Marston (2003): Measuring Accessibility for People with a Disability. Geographical Analysis, Vol. 35 (1).Link
EU Report (2005): Access City - Award 2015 Examples of best practice for making EU cities more accessible. Link
Milner P. & B. Kelly (2009): Community participation and inclusion: people with disabilities defining their place. In: Disability & Society 24 (1), 47-62. Link
Roccetti, M. & C.E. Palazzi (2010): Sensible Maps for People with Disabilities. Collective intelligence. Small contributions for significant assistance to others. Link
Sanz, MF, Ferrandis, ED & JG Ferrer (2013): Involving Elderly and Disabled Tourists as Active Participants in Energy Savings. In: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Development 2 (1/2), 88-92.
Hausemer, P., Ambrose, I., Ito, K. & M. Auzinger (2014): Mapping skills and training needs to improve accessibility in tourism services. Link
The City of Santander & Cermi Cantabria (2014): Manual to facilitate the use of taxis by people with communnication difficulties.
Social Innovation and Collective Awareness Platforms:
n: PLoS ONE 8(12). Link
Bria, F. (2014): Digital Social Innovation. Interim Report.
Bureau of European Policy Advisers (2011): Empowering people, driving change: Social Innovation in the European Union. Luxembourg.
Gerometta, J., Häussermann, H., & G. Longo (2007): Social Innovation and Civil Society in Urban Governance: Strategies for an Inclusive City. In: Urban Studies 42, 2007-2021. Link
Kandler, T. (2013): Potenziale von Open Geodata im Kontext von Open Innovation (Master Thesis at Anhalt University of Applied Science). Link
Sestini, F. (2012): Collective Awareness Platforms: Engines for Sustainability and Ethics. In: IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Winter 2012, 54-62.
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http://www.dsai.ws/2015/
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http://dcentproject.eu/event/d-cent-event-network-democracy-for-a-better-city/
REAL CORP 2015 – From Vision to Reality for Vibrant Cities and Regions
May 5th to May 7th, 2015
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http://www.corp.at/index.php?id=1
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March 25th to March 26th, 2015
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http://netfutures2015.eu/
CAPS Consultation Meeting
March 25th, 2015
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http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/collective-awareness-platforms-sustainability-and-social-innovation-caps-consultation-meeting
European Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing
March 9th to March 10th, 2015
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=active-healthy-ageing&pg=2015-summit
Can We Gain an Economy, Politics and Society of the Commons?
February 25th, 2015
Yochai Benkler will present the Spanish translation of his book "The Wealth of Networks" during a talk in Barcelona. The talk will address the question, "Can we gain an economy, politics and society of the commons?". It will include a discussion on the emerging model of production, political innovation and the geopolitics of Internet from the Spanish context. The event will be streamed live and can be viewed by accessing the link below.
http://stream.communia.org/benkler-igop.php
CAPS Infoday Paris
February 24th, 2015
The Infoday will take place in Paris at Centre Pompidou. At the event, participants can pitch their project ideas to potential partners for the CAPS call in the “3 slides 3 minutes” session.
http://www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/id/vjr3c7td5vps/agenda/caps_info_day_paris?ctx=vg8xdjeo1zoj&tab=1&start_tab1=84
Usage of Data for Driving Social Entrepreneurship
February 19th, 2015
The Web-COSI Workshop on “Usage of Data for Driving Social Entrepreneurship” takes place in London this year. The workshop seeks to explore the creation of new tools and develop existing methods on creating critical mass on the usage of data for driving social entrepreneurship initiatives.
http://www.webcosi.eu/events/workshop-on-the-usage-of-data-for-driving-social-entrepreneurship/
Shaping the Future of Digital Social Innovation
February 17th, 2015
On February 17th Nesta gathers leading European practitioners, funders, academics and policy makers from the EU, national, regional and local governments working on Digital Social Innovation (DSI) to discuss lessons from the research and the future of DSI in Europe. Participants can also learn more about funding opportunities for DSI in Europe through the CAPS call.
http://digitalsocial.eu/
CAPS Infoday Barcelona
February 9th, 2015
CAPS Infoday will take place in FabLab, Barcelona. Participants at the event will receive detailed information about the CAPS call and will be able to pitch their ideas to potential project partners.
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/caps-infoday-barcelona
Net Futures Information Day on Horizon 2020
February 6th, 2015
The event will be held in Brussels and cover the fundamentals of the European Union Horizon 2020. After the introduction to H2020, networking sessions will take place on four main topics — Network Technologies; Software & Services, Cloud; Net Innovation (a specific session on ICT10 CAPS); and Experimental Platforms.
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/net-futures-information-day-h2020-ict-2015
Accessible Way-Finding Using Web Technologies Symposium
3rd December 2014
This online symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, and users with disabilities, to explore new and on-going research and development in accessible way-finding using web technologies. It examines different technologies, applications, concepts, and solutions that help people with disabilities orient themselves, explore, and navigate through the physical world. The goal of this symposium is to explore current state-of-the-art in accessible way-finding, better understand the accessibility needs and preferences of people with disabilities, and explore promising web technologies and developments to provide accessible way-finding.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2014/way-finding/
Social Innovation and Global Ethics Forum
October 22nd to October 24th, 2014
This event gathers a global audience of individuals, Organizations and Personalities. It is a place to explore, define, and share new ideas that meet social needs more effectively and create social collaborations. SIGEF 2014 will take place in Geneva at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG).
