Impact
The impact of the Chairs can be classified into three categories:
- Social impact: due to the objective pursued by the Chairs, which is none other than to encourage the workplace and social inclusion of disabled people, and due also to the advantages which the technological solutions developed can provide for this sector of society.
- Scientific impact: due to the agglutination of a critical mass of people working together in a university-business partnership and undertaking research into such a sensitive, specific and strategic field like accessible technology. This Chair of Chairs will promote synergies between Indra and the research groups at the different universities in order to develop pioneering solutions in the field of disability with an enormous scientific and technological impact..
- Economic impact: due to the value of anticipation, and the differential value for Indra of including Design for All principles in the technological solutions offered to its clients. Indra believes there are unequivocal signs that accessible technology will have a decisive weight in the future of the Information Society. This is clearly illustrated by the European strategies to promote the Information Society and the legislative framework of the European Union member countries:
- Importance of digital inclusion in European strategies. In line with the Lisbon Strategy (2000) and one of the three pillars of the i2010 Strategic Agenda. Digital inclusion has played an important role in the three plans to promote the Information Society (eEurope 2002, eEurope 2005 and the current i2010).
- o Increasingly stringent legislative framework on accessible technology, which is gradually becoming a decisive factor in public procurement processes.