The ITU’s Applications for Accessibility
Award is a competition to promote
the creation and development of new solutions involving mobile
applications for any type of platform, focused on
accessibility.
This contest is primarily focused on developing innovative
and creative solutions to benefit persons with disability
(PwD), bringing more social inclusion and interaction, comfort
and quality of life to their daily routine through mobile
technologies.
It is expected that new concepts of mobile applications are
developed to be used by people with sensory, mobility and
cognitive disabilities, which may involve services on the web
or be integrated into mobile devices including wearables,
peripherals or hardware devices developed by the participant.
It is mandatory that the mobile application be developed for
most known operating systems for use on smartphones or
tablets.
The 2016 edition of the ITU Applications for Accessibility
Award will be once again carried out in collaboration with
SAMSUNG Brazil but this year will have two categories of
participation:
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Ideas, solutions or projects that still need to be
developed or that are under development so that target
public can enjoy them. It is important to
highlight that ITU and SAMSUNG are not making any
commitment nor will have any responsibility related to
the development of the submitted solutions and neither
will provide any kind of resources to make it happen,
such as human or financial.
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Solutions to benefit people with disability that are
already developed or available in the market - in this
case the contest will help in the promotion of these
solutions to ensure target public knows about them;
The solutions proposed and developed by the participants of
the competition will be analyzed by a Judging Contest
Committee, composed of ITU and SAMSUNG representatives,
experts from different areas related to mobile products and
services, representatives of organizations of persons with
disability, and also by special guests involved with the issue
PWD.
Each member of the Judging Committee will assign a score to
each proposed solution, according to the following criteria:
Creativity, User’s Experience and Solution Development.
Participation
To
enter the contest, please submit either an idea of a
mobile solution focused on accessibility, or information
about the mobile solution you have developed. While the
creation of a solution prototype is not a requirement in
the case of the idea, submission of documentation on the
solution would facilitate the evaluation of the “technical
feasibility of the solution” requirement (see details
below).
The
submission of the following information is recommended to
each category:
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Product under conception or development: The
proposed idea is still under conception or the project is
under development and there is no available version to be
used by people with disabilities.
While the creation of a
solution prototype is not a requirement for this category,
submission of documentation on the solution would facilitate
the evaluation of the “technical feasibility of the
solution” requirement(see details under "Classification")
To participate, please
submit all information you have about your idea. We
recommend:
- Solution Overview: A high level picture of the solution,
containing the main components and the relation between
them.
- Components Description: A detailed description of the
components, how they work and how are the interfaces.
- Main Use Case Scenario: A detailed description of the
main solution use case, what are the actors, the sequence of
actions, the input and outputs, etc.
- Sample Screens: At least one or two solution screens and
the screen flow.
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Product available for use: The solution to
benefit people with disabilities is already developed and
it is available to be used or tested by people with
disabilities.
For this category at least a solution
prototype is required. The developed solution or the created
prototype will be evaluated following "Solution Development"
criteria.
To enter the contest please submit all
information you have about your solution (it is recommended to
send the same ones required for the previous category -
Solution Overview, Components Description, Main Use Case
Scenario and Sample Screens)and also the apk and the
instructions to install and run your application.
The
contest will accept proposals from individuals and teams
and interested participants may also register until June 15, 2016 through the “Send your
Idea” link of this website.
Period for
solution development or to submit an idea or solution
Registered
participants will have until 31 July 2016 to submit their proposals using the form
template available at the Contest webpage.
Only proposals using the template will be accepted. Additional materials such as application
drawings, videos, navigable prototypes,executables (APK's)
and slide shows, can also be sent along with the required
template.
Competitors
are required to maintain an ethical conduct and may be
subject to disqualification – so please note that members
of the competing team must control the majority of the
intellectual property rights of the app submitted to the
competition and must account for the majority of the work
and resources put into the creation and prototyping of the
app.
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Participation of employees, or
persons related to ITU and/or SAMSUNG is
prohibited
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It
is highlighted that neither ITU nor SAMSUNG will provide
the resources for the development of the solution
submitted to the contest - participants are responsible for seeking
the necessary resources to develop their idea.
The Judging Contest Committee will assign grades to all the
solutions presented within the deadline established, that
involves a mobile app, according to the table of criteria with
their respective weight and grade.
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Criteria
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Specification
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Weight
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Grade
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Very low
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Low
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High
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Very high
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Creativity
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40
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1
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2
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3
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4
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Solution
Development
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20
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1
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2
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3
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4
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User’s
Experience
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Size of
the target public benefiting from the
solution
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Impact of
the solution in user’s life
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Mobile
application with good use experience
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40
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1
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2
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3
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4
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The sum of all grades obtained by each proposal, multiplied
by its weight - in accordance to the formula below - will be
considered the final score.
The solutions will be sorted in descending order of their
FINAL SCORE, and the highest FINAL SCORE will be declared winner.
Awarding
The ITU will award the winner or a representative
of the winning team of each category with a fellowship to
participate in the ITU Regional Event "Accessible
Americas III: Information and Communication to
ALL", that will be
carried out in Mexico City, Mexico*, from 28 to 30 November
2016. The fellowship will cover return air ticket from city of
origin to Mexico City, in economy class and the most direct
route, as well as a daily amount to cover the cost of lodging,
meals and local transportation during the period of the event.
Both the ITU and SAMSUNG, whenever appropriate, will promote
the winning solutions in national and international events
organized in the framework of their mandate, thereby
increasing business opportunities to the author/s.
(*) In case winning participants are from Mexico City,
fellowships offered by ITU may be granted for another ITU
event in a different location to be informed by ITU.
Regional competition of the ITU for Latin America and the
Caribbean
"Accessibility mobile applications"
Send
your idea
1. Prepare the files.
1.1. Download and fill the
registration form (Reg-Form.docx).
Rename this file to “Reg-Formdocx.itu”. Store it together with
the rest of the files of your participation.
1.2. Change the extensions of your
files to *.itu
The original extension of your
file will be the final part of the file name and the extension
will be "itu".
Example: If your original file is
"doc.pdf", rename it in the following way: "docpdf.itu". If your
original file is "mine.apk", rename it "mineapk.itu"
1.3. Pack your files in archive of
"zip" format
2. Create a guest on the ITU
website account
2.1. Access to the address:
https://www.itu.int/net/iwm/public/frmUserRegistration.aspx
2.2. Provide the information
requested:
2.3. Press the button "validate",
if everything is OK, the following message appears:
2.4. Between to the email account
you entered in 2.2. You will receive an email from the address servicedesk@itu.int.
Validate your registration. To validate it, a message similar to
the following:
3. Upload the file ZIP prepared
in step 1.3
3.1. Access to the address:
https://extranet.itu.int/itu-d/itu_ams/contests/DropOffLibrary/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Enter the "username" and
"password" of the step 2.4
3.2. In the screen that appears
below, click on 'new document'
3.3. Click on the "browse" button
and choose the "ZIP" document on your computer that prepared in
step 1.2.
3.4. Fill out the form that
appears on screen, which requested category (idea or prototype),
full name, title, company, address, city, postal code or zip,
country, email, primary phone number, number document of
identification, nationality, date of birth, phone number, title
of the idea, disability, personal description and choice of the
name of the contest. The name of this contest is "Mobile
Applications for Accessibility".
3.5. Press the "Submit" button
3.6. The climb successfully your
ZIP file, the message will be displayed:
