The Ookjij.nl foundation



Our Mission statement

To Enable the accessibility of ICT for people with intellectual disabilities in order to facilitate self suporting and to Increase in Quality of life.
                                 
   

Our Objectives

Development of modern web-based applications for all people with intellectual disabilities in such a way that they can be self supporting.

Our applications are: safe, secure, funny, interesting, recognizable and instructive and covers three main areas: living, labour, leisure..

The foundation will achieve these objectives through the execution of projects managed by the Expert team. This team provides for the community web-based ICT-infrastructure. Content suppliers are requested to provide their unique content compliant with the Ookjij specifications.

The Expert team

Over the last six years the Expert team has gained tremendous know-how in the area of accessible Internet and multi-media applications for disabled people.

The organization of the Expert team
- Jaap Verbeek, Management, PR en Communication
- Meinte Strikwerda, Interaction Design
- Rolf Meijer, Technology, User interface

An interactive on-line communityplaform for intellectual disabled people
J. Verbeek |1 september 2009

Today’s society is becoming more and more an ICT society. ICT applications enable fundamental changes in the economy and society. In that respect it is essential that people with less capabilities have access to the Internet. People with special needs, e.g. elderly, intellectual disabled and others must also take advantage of the benefits of a knowledge society. The Ookjij.nl community Platform is a unique social networking platform especially designed for the intellectual disabled. It is accessible for people with all kinds of (multiple) disabilities (e.g. intellectual, visually, physical and audible). The added value of the Ookjij.nl Community platform is to offer the intellectual disabled an easy accessible, safe and secure platform for communication with different persons (e.g. friends, family, teacher,…. ) and further development of their own skills, leading to an increase of their ‘quality of life’.

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