The winners of the INCA Award 2010 will be known on December 16th, 2010, at the iMinds Conference in Ghent, Belgium. The Award Ceremony will be streamed on the website, but feel free to come and watch it live, at iMinds.
Anyone present at last year’s Award ceremony will recall the excitement and fun of INCA09 and this year iMinds keynote speaker Peter Hirshberg will talk on The Internet of Things right before the INCA Award Ceremony starts.
See you at iMinds!
You can register here
These are the accepted submsissions for the INCA Awards 2010:
Access-city is a website, where you can make a request of accessibility for your city.
The website makes the link between the person who is in need and the council, then a dialog can start to solve the problem.
For now, this type of requests can take long and are different according to the city.
We hope that Access-city will increase this type of request, in order that accessibility won’t be a problem anymore.
Url of the application: www.access-city.com
Team members: Dorian OLLIVIER, Pierre-Louis SERRE
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A mobile web application to track your energy usage over time. Add the values for your water, gas, electricity, etc. and see how your usage evolves during the year. This can help you plan your heating expenses for example or make hidden costs visible before the high energy bills arrive.
The application will run in any webkit browser (like Apple Safari or Google Chrome) but is intended to run on a smartphone like an iPhone or Android phone. No installation or registration is needed to use the application. The application is open source and free to use.
Url of the application: http://blathy.suffix.be/
Team members: Simon Schoeters
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AIRLINER – hand free navigation system / audio drawing app
Build for people with hand, arms deformities, motoric disorders, tremor, Parkinson, multiple sclerosis (MS) and no possibility to use a classic mouse & keyboard navigation system,
The information about airliner has been removed from the website by request of the developer.
Many people (e.g. elderly) will always remain offline. Consequently, they miss many great stuff out on the Internet, stuff they would really enjoy. Wouldn’t it be great to allow them to view this content in a familiar way, offline and on paper?
EmpaperMe is the first to bridge this gap. We allow online family and friends to collaboratively collect content an offline person they care about would really enjoy. From this content, we design and print a personal magazine and deliver it to the letterbox of the offline person.
Accessibility information? We’ll share it on WheelShare.it
The Internet has revolutionized our ways of finding information. A nice restaurant, museum, a nearby bus stop, it’s only a few mouse clicks away. All these kinds of information sources often don’t incorporate accessibility information. This limits the freedom of people with reduced mobility, if they are not sure something is accessible, they probably won’t take the effort to go there and find themselves disappointed.
With wheelshare.it, we offer a community driven website, which incorporates accessibility information of all kinds of places like hotels, pubs, restaurants, museums, etc. This way social inclusion is improved.
Url of the application: http://wheelshare.it/
Team members: Jen Rossey, Pieter De Mil, Jeroen Hoebeke, Inge Schilders and Irma Roosen
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Shoppy is a web site and accompanying iPhone app which allows volunteers (shoppers) and people in need to meet. People in need create shopping lists, which volunteers in the neighborhood can pick up and deliver. The package delivery should be a social event.
url of the application: http://www.netwalkapps.com/shoppy
Team members: Tom Nys, Gert Van Nespen, Sandy Cools
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This website allows
(i) to create subtitles for a streaming video by synchronising both the text and the video,
(ii) to translate the created subtitle in a variety of languages (the subtitle source can be an XML or SRT file), and
(iii) the visualisation of a streaming video with an imported or created subtitles (supported video sources are Megavideo, Youtube, or Dailymotion).
This website can be useful for
(i) people who would like to broaden the public for one of their videos, by adding translated subtitles,
(ii) people having a subtitle for a video (ex. in English) and would like to translate it to their mother tongue, and
(iii) hearing-impaired people who would like to understand the content of a video by means of a translated subtitle.
url of the application: http://www.substream.be
team members: Geoffroy Cruxifix, Silvia Garcia-Diez
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More demo video’s: http://www.substream.be/demo-fr.html
FeedSpeaker helps blind people experience the Internet by enabling them to do what most of us take for granted – instantly access the latest news stories around the world by navigating only with their voice. It combines state of the art open source speech recognition solutions with geocoded semantic data access from hundreds of real-time news sources around the Web. FeedSpeaker is the first of its kind and hopefully a glimpse of the future. It’s a browser-based mashup that requires no installation, doesn’t cost anything and is accessible from anywhere and anytime by people with visual disabilities and without them alike.
url of the application: http://www.feedspeaker.com
Team members: Veljko Sekelj
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Additional info:
FeedSpeaker.com requires only the latest Flash Player plugin to run. Please make sure you’ve granted the app sufficient rights to access your microphone – and then that your microphone and speakers are turned on. Its a prototype so please pronounce words clearly and don’t get mad if it doesn’t understand something 
Have fun using it!
