Good practices in the Enred@te Pilot Project: a digital social network for older adults and Spanish Red Cross volunteers

  • Ana Peñalver Blanco Fundación de Tecnologías Sociales (TECSOS)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/CUTS.51656
Keywords: healthy and active ageing, social network, volunteers, ICT

Abstract

The Enred@te initiative, created by Red Cross, the Vodafone Foundation and the TECSOS Foundation, emerged as an evolution of a previous project that developed and piloted a video-communication solution with older adults, using a system installed in their own televisions. Following the success of this first initiative, it was decided to advance toward a more flexible, robust, easy-to-use and high-quality solution, producing a social network accessible through tablets. Older adults can use the network to video-communicate with other older adults and stay informed on various topics of interest. Additionally, a new innovation incorporates the participation of virtual volunteers, a part of the network that promotes its use in an inclusive and participative manner. This solution was also piloted in 2014 with positive results and work to turn it into a service that can reach older adults through the Red Cross is currently on-going.

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Ana Peñalver Blanco, Fundación de Tecnologías Sociales (TECSOS)

Ana Peñalver Blanco, Qualified in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Graduate in universal accessibility and usability from the Open University of Catalunya. Since 2008, she works as a project manager at TECSOS Foundation, an organization founded by Spanish Red Cross and Vodafone Spain Foundation, which joins together the social experience of Spanish Red Cross with the technological excellence of the Vodafone Spain Foundation. She has led notable projects such as the Mobile Telecare accessible for Victims of Gender Violence, deaf or older people; and the Videoattencion solution, focusing her work especially on the acquisition of knowledge from users and professionals of the social sector to implement services of social intervention, through technology tools and specific methodologies.

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Published
2016-06-08
How to Cite
Peñalver Blanco A. (2016). Good practices in the Enred@te Pilot Project: a digital social network for older adults and Spanish Red Cross volunteers. Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, 29(2), 201-212. https://doi.org/10.5209/CUTS.51656
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Vol. 29 No. 2 (2016): Innovación social, tecnología y Trabajo Social
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Monograph

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