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TAD Transnational Meeting, 23 November 1998, Madrid, Spain

Minutes of TAD Project Management Meeting

Table of Contents

1. Revision of progress of the project: working calendar for 1999 (meetings...)
2. TAD Project Web site
   • Comments from each member on TOUCAN´s second prototype of the Web site
   • Implementation calendar
   • WEB information server provider and definition of Web-master
3. Proposal from each member for the outline of the 'Best Practice Guide' on telematics and disabilities
4. Evaluation of the TAD Project

Participants:

Cepadite Project: Ana Gutiérrez, Carmen Viorreta
CONTATTO Project: Claudio Sicolo, Alfio Desogus, Paolo Zedda
On-line Project: Alex McDonald, Tom Knox

1. 1999 Calendar of TAD Project seminars

*(The evaluation results of the CEPADITE Project will be presented)

The project management meeting will coincide with each seminar.

At the present time the ILO delegation cannot confirm whether they will attend the seminar on 16-17 December in Madrid due to conflicts with other commitments on their working agenda.

2. TAD Web-site

Having analysed TOUCAN's second prototype the following agreements are reached concerning the structure and contents of each area:

• The TAD Project WEB-site will be implemented by TOUCAN according to accessibility guidelines for the disabled. TOUCAN points out that such guidelines can be found at the "On-line Project" Web-site, also on the same page there is a tool to check the accessibility of web sites for people with any kind of disability.
• TOUCAN will host the home page of the TAD Project on its server and will take care of updating the contents on a monthly basis.
• The deadline for members to send in monthly updates during 1999: no later than the 23rd of each month.
• Regarding the structure of the contents, it is decided to distribute them according to the following diagram:

Homepage

• To include a brief description (1 or 2 lines) of the objectives and usefulness of the TAD homepage.
• To include logos of HORIZON/EMPLOYMENT and the European Social Fund with links to their respective URLs.

TAD - C.C.S

It will have two levels of access:

• Public access for any Internet user
• Restricted access with a password for TAD Project members

Public access area

• It will include a brief description of the TAD transnational Project: objectives, products.... contact details.
• The proceedings of the transnational seminars will be made available.

Restricted access area for TAD members

It will provide the following resources for co-ordination and exchange of information between members of the TAD Project:

• e-mail
• Chat
• BBS
• Transnational activities

TAD Partners

It will include information on each of the national projects:

• Brief description (text of approximately 2,000 characters): objectives, description, members, products
• Contact details
• Logo
• Link to the homepage of each national project

Social Enterprises

It will include links to different web pages on the topic, classified according to countries

Telematics & Disability

It will include links to different web pages on the topic, classified according to subtopics

Regarding the first update of the contents of the TAD Web page it is agreed to send to TOUCAN (Alex McDonald), before 23/12/98, the following information:

1. Specific information in English on each of the national projects:

• URL of project homepage
• Contact details: address, telephone and fax with both international and national codes, e-mail address
• Logo (if there is one)
• Brief description of project

2. Initial list of links to WEB pages for the following content areas

This list, to be drawn up by each member, will refer mainly to Web sites available in each country, although it can include links to Web sites in other countries, international organisations, ...

2.1 Telematics and Disability

This is a very broad area as regards the contents it can cover, such as: teleworking, adapting workstations to disabled people, access to telematics resources, teletraining, training the disabled in the use of technologies, information databases for the disabled, ....

Each link for "Telematics and Disability" should provide the following information:

• URL address
• 1 or 2 lines of text explaining the content of the Web page
• logo of the organisation to which the Web page belongs

2.2 Social enterprises

Since the degree of evolution and growth as well as the characteristics of social enterprises may vary in each country (Italy, Spain, Great Britain), resulting in a lack of homogeneity in the information provided on each country, it is agreed to provide the most relevant data available in each country.

Each link for "Social Enterprises" should provide the following information:

• URL address
• 1 or 2 lines of text explaining the content of the Web page
• logo of the organisation to which the Web page belongs

3. Proposal for an icon to represent the TAD Project

3. 'Best Practice Guide' on Telematics and Disabilitities

Guide production criteria

Joint effort

The joint production of this guide constitutes one of the fundamental parts of the transnational collaboration within the framework of the TAD Project.

Practical document

The guide will cover the specific conclusions of each of the case studies of each national project, though at the same time it will give common useful recommendations on a European level. A maximum length of 100 pages is advisable.

Common approach

Since each national project is different it is essential to use a common structure, outline and length for each of the three case studies.

Length of the guide

75 pages: Case studies (Each case study: 25 pages)
25 pages: Presentation, recommendations, conclusions, bibliography and annexes

Structure of the guide

1. Introduction
2. Executive Summary
3. Case Studies
   (Structure of each case study:)
   • Disabilities
   • Technologies used
   • Common Themes
   • Problems
   • Synergy
   • Value Added
   • Links to other European Projects
   • Dissemination
4. Conclusions
5. Recommendations
6. Bibliography
7. Annexes

Criteria for dissemination of the guide

• The guide will be written in English
• The guide will be available for Internet
• Each member may produce a version of the guide in its own language

Date for presenting the draft of each case study
25-26 March: Meeting in Manchester

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