All the best, Cearbhall T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Charlotte May [mailto:Charlotte.May@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 June 2011 15:20 To: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx Subject: Corrected version! VODAFONE FOUNDATION LAUNCHES EU SMART ACCESSIBILTY AWARDS WITH AGE AND EDF Media Release | European Disability Forum VODAFONE FOUNDATION LAUNCHES EU SMART ACCESSIBILTY AWARDS WITH AGE AND EDF 14 June 2011 /// In the week of the first EU Digital Assembly in Brussels, Vodafone Foundation is launching the Smart Accessibility Awards. This is a new competition to promote the development of IT applications designed to improve the lives of people with disabilities and older people to help them become more actively involved in society. The programme is supported and co-organized by AGE Platform Europe, the European network of around 160 organisations of and for people aged 50+, and the European Disability Forum (EDF), the NGO that represents the interests of 80 million Europeans with disabilities. Launched in Brussels, the competition will award the best Smartphone application across four different categories as follows: 1. Social participation: This refers to applications which help users to participate actively in today's society and benefit from the facilities that the new technologies can offer, whatever their age, disability and/or capacity (E.g. use the web and social media through mobile devices, contact people using mobile devices to the same extent as everyone, etc). 2. Independent living: This refers to applications which help users to be more autonomous and perform daily tasks independently (E.g. using domestic appliances such as washing machine or refrigerator, opening doors safely, etc). 3. Mobility: This refers to applications which enable users to move around more freely and safely using the whole range of transport modes. It can also refer to the use of mobile devices to be guided in unknown environment (e.g. using GPS option, etc). 4. Wellbeing: This refers to applications which improve the users' health and as well as overall feeling of wellbeing. The total prize fund of €200k will be split equally between the four winners. The competition is open from 14 June 2011 to 15 October 2011. All qualifying entries will be evaluated in November by a jury, consisting of representatives from AGE Platform Europe, European Disability Forum and Vodafone Foundation. Twelve finalists will be selected and requested to present their application before the final jury in Brussels in early December at a live final, where the four overall winners will be chosen. >More information: The Question and Answer document provides more details <http://cms.horus.be/files/99909/MediaArchive/Q&A%20Vodaphone.doc> Visit the Vodafone website and submit your entry here <http://developer.vodafone.com/smartaccess2011/> Find out about the judgment criteria here <http://cms.horus.be/files/99909/MediaArchive/Vodaphone%20Smart%20Accessibility%20Awards%202011-judgement%20criteria.doc> Visit AGE Europe's website <http://www.age-platform.eu/en> Read the complete media release on EDF website <http://bit.ly/mKIbOv> Charlotte May-Simera Communications Assistant European Disability Forum | nothing about us without us Square de Meeus 35 | 1000 Brussels Belgium T +32 2 286 51 83 | M +32 470 39 50 68 | F +32 2 282 46 09 Charlotte.may@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Charlotte.may@xxxxxxxxxxxx> www.edf-feph.org <http://www.edf-feph.org/> save a tree: think before you print facebook <http://www.facebook.com/EuropeanDisabilityForumEDF> twitter <http://twitter.com/MyEDF> youtube <http://www.youtube.com/MyEDF> picasa <http://picasaweb.google.be/EuropeanDisabilityForum> we want free <http://bit.ly/lsRWvf> dom of movement