Components of a GPII
A GPII would consist of a number of components that work together to form the infrastructure enhancements needed to make our broadband infrastructure into an Inclusive Broadband Infrastructure.
Brief descriptions for each of these are provided below along with a link to more information on the component. This listing is also provided on the home page and on each of the program pages.
1) A way for people to determine what would help them - and then to store that information safely for future use.
- "There is a Fix for that"
- Awareness programs(s) that together ensure that everyone knows that there are ways/solutions/things that can make information and communication technologies (ICT) easier for people having trouble using ICT – and where to start looking.
- The EU Wiz
- An on-line evaluation aid that can help professionals and consumers find out how what techniques, features, assistive technologies, etc. would make ICT easier or possible for them to use.
- Private Preference & Permission Storage System
- A way (in the cloud or on a personal device) to securely and privately store information on what works for them so they can use the information later to shop and to automatically change things to work for them.
- Unified Listing and Marketplace
- A single list of all the solutions available today - and an open marketplace that is safe to try them out and select them.
- Matching Aid
- A tool to help find everything (techniques, built-in features, assistive technologies) that matches and helps address a person's needs & preferences.
2) A way to use their stored preferences to invoke the access features, technologies and services they need - anywhere on any device they need to use.
- Private Preference & Permission Serving System
- A mechanism to allow users to privately and anonymously take and use their preferences and settings anywhere.
- Unified AnyWhere Delivery System
- Infrastructure for delivering any combination of settings and AT (commercial and public) -- anywhere, anytime, any device.
- Auto-Personalization Services
- Automatically personalizes the user interface on devices and adapts content based on user preferences and needs.
- Caption & Description Finder / Creator Infrastructure
- Automatically finds captions, descriptions, or other supplemental information for video or images if they exist anywhere. If they don't, it provides a way to have them generated on demand through one of the volunteer or paid services.
- Assistance On Demand Infrastructure
- Infrastructure that allows users to instantly call up 'assistance on demand' from volunteer or paid services whenever and wherever they need it (for as short as a few seconds).
3) Tools and infrastructure to allow diverse developers and vendors to create new solutions and easily and cost effectively move them to market and availability to users who need them.
- Rich Development Environment
- A development environment that makes it easier and less expensive to build new solutions or add new capabilities to the mix.
- Tool Kit & Parts Store
- A Rich set of components for building new access solutions and services.
- Assistance on Demand Infrastructure (see above)
- An AOD Infrastructure to make it easy for organization (volunteer and commercial) to create and offer new automated and human services on demand
- Unified List and Open Marketplace (see above)
- A Unified listing and marketplace that makes it easy for new developers to get their products seen and disseminated to users.