News
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Technology Overcoming Rural Social Isolation" - An article about Mobile Age by John Popham
- Created: 31 May 2018
John Popham, Digital Storyteller, has written an interesting article on the occasion of World Health Innovation Summit Fylde Coast (#WHISFC18) event where he met Mobile Age Project Coordinator, Prof. Niall Hayes, who explains the app developed which aims to overcome social isolation among older people in rural South Cumbria.
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New study on Digital Government APIs, APIs4DGov project
- Created: 24 April 2018
European Commission's DG CONNECT together with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) launched a study with the purpose to gain further understanding of the current use of APIs in digital government and their added value for public services.
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Designing age-friendly cities through participative software development?
- Created: 24 April 2018
Juliane Jarke and Ulrike Gerhard address this question in an article recently published in the IzR's current issue on "Online Participation in Urban Development".
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Clarity Project Blog: Mobile Age Prepares Software Solutions to Meet the Needs of Older Adults
- Created: 14 March 2018
Clarity project presents Mobile Age project's aim, impact and focus in an interesting blog post.
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Mobile Age public deliverables available online!
- Created: 14 March 2018
A list of public deliverables is available online and you can get informed on the latest technological developments of project's outputs.
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Demo of the Mobile Age lookup service on termcoord.eu
- Created: 14 March 2018
The service can access French IATE equivalents of English terms from any termcoord.eu webpage. Terms with a French IATE equivalent available in the selected domain are indicated with an underline in the text. The approach simplifies the use of IATE in the following three ways.
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Where is the next bench?
- Created: 11 March 2018
Where can you meet other seniors? These questions are answered by a digital city guide, which has now been presented in Bremen.
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Westmorland Gazette features an article on "How information technology increases social connectedness"
- Created: 11 March 2018
On January 4th, 2018 an article featured on Westmorland Gazette presents how technology can be used to tackle social isolation. Niall Hayes, Professor of Lancaster University Management School, comments that "technology can be utilised to combat loneliness in older people".