1. Kempen University College
K.U.Leuven Association

3. KHK: Ten research groups
Energy management
Sustainable protection
Biomedical technology
Animal care
Functional nutrition
ICT –> k-point
Local social en economic strategy
Gerontology and geriatrics
Education effectivity research
Mother and child care

4. K-point ICT and inclusion ICT for people with mental disabilities
ICT help for youngsters with learning problems
Design rules for E-inclusion
Direct access to test groups

5. Proposal
Social inclusion through social software : WEB2.0 for people with low digital literacy skills
Target group:
Youngsters with learning difficulties, reading and writing problems, mentally disabled, immigrants with language problems
Purpose:
Inclusion of this marginalized target group through the support of social software (web2.0), building on existing networks.

6. Plan State of the art - Current situation Involve stakeholders
Enhance existing tools and develop guidelines for more accessibility
Language support systems
Adaptive interfaces for social software tools
Implementation and evaluation of social software in test groups
Sustainability

7. State of the art - Current situation
What works? Determination of probable success areas.
Available tools and their accessibility
Needs, current methods, gap analysis
Available target group networks for introduction of web2.0 and dissemination activities
Benchmarking tools for social inclusion

8. Involve stakeholders Build on existing networks for social inclusion
Explore existing solutions and possible matches with existing networks
Define working models for the use of social software
Set up test-groups of end-users in differentiated target groups

9. Stakeholders Examples
Second language training org.
School support organizations
Drop-out support organizations
Leisure organizations – special Olympics...
Day care centers
Special work placements
Special education schools
......

10. Enhance existing tools and develop guidelines for more accessibility
Language support systems
Symbol language support
symbol based communication
symbol translation between symbol sets
symbol based interfaces for tools
Sign language support
avatar sign language support
sign language translation
Reading software for visually impaired
Plain language as the bases for initial communication medium
Translation software for EU-countries
Adaptive interfaces for social software tools
Develop better design guidelines for adapted interfaces
Interfaces build on users competences
Competence detection system, language settings, communication tools settings…

11. Implementation/evaluation of social software in test groups
Roll out to test groups
Training of intermediates
Helpdesk
Evaluation report - Benchmarks
Dissemination
Impact measure

12. Sustainability
Network support systems
Business plan

13. Partners profile Well networked to stake holders
Experience in e-inclusion
Web2.0 experience
EU-experience

14. Contact details Jan Dekelver KHKempen K.U.Leuven Association
Kleinhoefstraat 4
2440 Geel
Belgium