TY - GEN
T1 - Closing the Gap
T2 - 25th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2024
AU - Macedo, Patrícia
AU - Oliveira, Ana Inês
AU - Ferrada, Filipa
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded (in part) by the Portuguese FCT program, Center of Technology and Systems (CTS) UIDB/00066/2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2024.
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - This paper explores the potential of mass collaboration to improve the quality of life for people with disability (PwD), a group representing approximately 16% of the global population. Accessibility remains a significant challenge for PwD, impacting physical navigation, information access, and social participation. Additionally, disparities in healthcare, education, employment, and social support exacerbate these issues. Addressing these challenges requires a collaborative, inclusive approach, including co-creating knowledge with input from PwD, caregivers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to ensure initiatives are relevant, effective, and sustainable. In this context, this work outlines a framework for enhancing well-being through mass collaboration, focusing on four key objectives: identifying current support initiatives across governmental, societal, and technological dimensions; illustrating the benefits of mass collaboration tools through user-centric scenarios; describing existing mass collaboration initiatives as benchmarks for developing a knowledge network; and proposing a conceptual architecture for a mass collaboration platform specifically designed for PwD.
AB - This paper explores the potential of mass collaboration to improve the quality of life for people with disability (PwD), a group representing approximately 16% of the global population. Accessibility remains a significant challenge for PwD, impacting physical navigation, information access, and social participation. Additionally, disparities in healthcare, education, employment, and social support exacerbate these issues. Addressing these challenges requires a collaborative, inclusive approach, including co-creating knowledge with input from PwD, caregivers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to ensure initiatives are relevant, effective, and sustainable. In this context, this work outlines a framework for enhancing well-being through mass collaboration, focusing on four key objectives: identifying current support initiatives across governmental, societal, and technological dimensions; illustrating the benefits of mass collaboration tools through user-centric scenarios; describing existing mass collaboration initiatives as benchmarks for developing a knowledge network; and proposing a conceptual architecture for a mass collaboration platform specifically designed for PwD.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Knowledge Co-creation
KW - Mass collaboration
KW - People with disability
KW - Societal inclusion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85205118921&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-71743-7_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-71743-7_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85205118921
SN - 978-3-031-71742-0
SN - 978-3-031-71745-1
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 3
EP - 18
BT - Navigating Unpredictability: Collaborative Networks in Non-linear Worlds
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luís M.
A2 - Ortiz, Angel
A2 - Boucher, Xavier
A2 - Barthe-Delanoë, Anne-Marie
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
Y2 - 28 October 2024 through 30 October 2024
ER -