VOICES
VOIce-based Community-cEntric mobile Services for social development
| Coordinatore | GEIE ERCIM
Organization address
address: 2004, ROUTE DES LUCIOLES SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | France [FR] |
| Totale costo | 2˙955˙895 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙046˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2009-6 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-01-01 - 2013-06-30 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
GEIE ERCIM
Organization address
address: 2004, ROUTE DES LUCIOLES SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS contact info |
FR (BIOT) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
CENTRO DI RICERCA, SVILUPPO E STUDI SUPERIORI IN SARDEGNA
Organization address
address: Via Palabanda 9 contact info |
IT (CAGLIARI) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
Organization address
address: Meiring Naude Road, Brummeria 46 contact info |
ZA (PRETORIA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
ECOLE SUPERIEURE MULTINATIONALE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Organization address
address: ZONE DU CERF VOLANT ROCADE FANN BEL AIR contact info |
SN (DAKAR) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
FONDATION MERIEUX
Organization address
address: RUE BOURGELAT 17 contact info |
FR (LYON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO
Organization address
address: SCHOEMAKERSTRAAT 97 contact info |
NL (DELFT) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
NOORDWES-UNIVERSITEIT
Organization address
address: HOFFMAN STREET 11 contact info |
ZA (POTCHEFSTROOM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
ORANGE SA
Organization address
address: RUE OLIVIER DE SERRES 78 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
PT INOVACAO E SISTEMAS SA
Organization address
address: RUA JOSE FERREIRA PINTO BASTO contact info |
PT (AVEIRO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
SAHEL ECO
Organization address
address: RUE 96 PORTE 737 POINT D APPUI contact info |
ML (Bamako) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
STICHTING VU-VUMC
Organization address
address: DE BOELELAAN 1105 contact info |
NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 12 |
WORLD WIDE WEB FOUNDATION
Organization address
address: ROUTE DE CHENE 30 contact info |
CH (GENEVE) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
There is widespread agreement that ICT services have the potential to play a major role in furthering social development in developing economies such as those in Africa. However, while there is a great deal of potential and opportunity, the amount and scope of actual mobile ICT services currently in existence in African countries is very limited.nnThe Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap, recently published as a result of the FP7 Digital World Forum project, makes it clear that realizing the potential of mobile ICT services requires addressing two major types of challenges:n1. The leveraging of content that is locally relevant; andn2. The removal of a range of access barriers, notably limitations related to access channels, literacy, and languages.nnVOICES intends to take a major step forward in realizing the potential of mobile ICT services particularly in the African context and resolve key challenges outlined in the Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap. To this end, the objectives of VOICES are to deliver:n• Open and wider access: VOICES will improve voice-based access to content and mobile ICT services by building a toolbox for the development of voice services.n• Integration of Local Community Radios and ICT.n• Better support of languages: It will deliver tool support and methodology for under researched and under resourced African languages.n• Long-term sustainability: To ensure the local adoption and exploitation of the VOICES tools and methods beyond the project, it will provide a sustainable architecture.n• Faster uptake: VOICES will furthermore enhance uptake by delivering a mobile training lab that offers capacity building for local partners.nnVOICES will demonstrate the fitness of its results for adaptation to the African context by extensive local pilots and associated community building, namely through the focus on health services in Senegal, and agricultural and regreening knowledge sharing in the Sahel countries.