Amongst many other, six specific initiatives aim to bring the elderly closer to the ICT as follows:
1. The "Blue Point" program of the Fundación "la Caixa". This network of banking entity and some centres of attention for the elderly, have set up a computer terminal in each of these places to provide information by means of a touch screen.
2. Program "Elderly Solidary Internauts" aims at integration of elderly collectives into the net and show them its potential. For this purpose, a portal was created.
3. Initiative in the town of Jun in the autonomous community of Andalusia. The project consists of providing Internet access to all inhabitants and to set up an agile system of tele-democracy through telematic participation in the local administration.
4. The Clicka T.V. project of he Department of Universities, Research and Information Society of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia financed a pilot experience in 2001 for facilitate internet access for the elderly through television (web tv technology).
5. Initiative in the town of Urnieta (Basque Country). Urnieta is the only village in Spain that is the owner of a telecomunications combination for residents: 22 tv channels, internet and telephone.
6. ACCES project promoting technical assistance in seeking the financing needed by the disabled or people with serious problems of autonomy, house-bound in rural or semi-urban areas.
Through the collaboration agreement between IMSERSO and the Fundación Telefónica, the Adapted Equipment Demonstration Unit has been set up in the CEAPAT. It comprises presential and virtual work posts to be used in advising, investigating and informing on barrier free access to IT and to develop all the possibilities offered by new technologies for training, employing and communicating people with physical, psychic and sensorial deficiencies. The CEAPAT also supports a large number of centres located in all the autonomous communities: the Centres for Advice and Information (CAI). The aim of this network of centres is to exchange and diffuse information concerning the technical aid and accessibility for the disabled.
A concern is, that the Spanish State has not yet introduced the latest infrastructures (broad band, cable) to allow faster telecommunications.
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