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About

The Unified Listing is an international listing of products for making communication, computers and digital devices more accessible.  

It brings together information on information and communication technologies (ICT) access from 12 different databases in Europe, the US and Australia.  

It also provides four different searching techniques from guided searches to power searching to make it easier for people with all levels of knowledge and search skill to find products that might help them. 

The Unified Listing has several unique features that help manufacturers.

  1. The Unified Listing automatically feeds all of its federated databases from around the world with any new information that it finds or receives. Manufacturers can therefore update the information in one place (the Unified Listing) and it will automatically be sent to all of the federated databases as well.
     
  2. Users of the Unified Listing (consumers and manufacturers) can ask to be alerted by email if any new information on products from any category, manufacturer, or search be automatically sent to them. Thus, any time a manufacturer has a new product included in the Unified Listing, any Unified Listing users who are interested in that category of product can automatically have an email sent to them -- without them having to return and re-search the database.
     
  3. There is also a feature that allows manufacturers to be automatically notified of any major changes to the listing of their products in the Unified Listing. 

How can you include your solutions in the Unified Listing?

Who benefits from the Unified Listing?

Users who...

  • want to find a solution for themselves (or a loved one)
  • want to see what is out there and available
  • want to find other products like the one they use  (or to replace the one they use if old or broken)

Manufacturers who...

  • want to get their products listed - in all databases 
  • want to see how their products are described - and fix any mistakes
  • want to scout out their competition   (products like their products)
  • want to get new ideas or size up the market

Researchers and developers who...

  • who want to learn about the field
  • who want to see what is out there
  • who want to see if their new idea is new or already out there.

Who contributes information to the Unified Listing?

The Unified Listing currently contains information pulled from the internet and from database vendors like EASTIN, the EASTIN federation members, GARI and AbleData. To continue growing and updating both the Unified Listing and its federated databases, the the Unified Listing will also enable manufacturers and community members to contribute directly.

Moreover, a bidirectional federation between EASTIN network and GPII Unified Listing has been established in such a way that the users of the GPII Unified Listing web portal can access information coming from the EASTIN databases.  

Databases federated with the Unified Listing