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Closing the Gap: Leveraging Mass Collaboration to Support People with Disability

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This paper explores the potential of mass collaboration to improve the quality of life for people with disability (PwD), a group representing approximately 16% of the global population. Accessibility remains a significant challenge for PwD, impacting physical navigation, information access, and social participation. Additionally, disparities in healthcare, education, employment, and social support exacerbate these issues. Addressing these challenges requires a collaborative, inclusive approach, including co-creating knowledge with input from PwD, caregivers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to ensure initiatives are relevant, effective, and sustainable. In this context, this work outlines a framework for enhancing well-being through mass collaboration, focusing on four key objectives: identifying current support initiatives across governmental, societal, and technological dimensions; illustrating the benefits of mass collaboration tools through user-centric scenarios; describing existing mass collaboration initiatives as benchmarks for developing a knowledge network; and proposing a conceptual architecture for a mass collaboration platform specifically designed for PwD.

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This research was funded (in part) by the Portuguese FCT program, Center of Technology and Systems (CTS) UIDB/00066/2020.

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  2. NOVA School of Science and Technology, DEEC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Ana Inês Oliveira & Filipa Ferrada

  3. UNINOVA-CTS and LASI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Patricia Macedo, Ana Inês Oliveira & Filipa Ferrada

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Macedo, P., Oliveira, A.I., Ferrada, F. (2024). Closing the Gap: Leveraging Mass Collaboration to Support People with Disability. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Ortiz, A., Boucher, X., Barthe-Delanoë, AM. (eds) Navigating Unpredictability: Collaborative Networks in Non-linear Worlds. PRO-VE 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71743-7_1

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