The Life 2.0 project aims at generating innovative services to
support elderly people’s independent living. The services will
use location technologies and social networking to enhance
elderly peolocalple’s access to information about what happens
in their neighborhood. The project will be based on the
hypothesis that technological infrastructure, such as Web
applications (e.g. google maps, social networks) Internet based
communication tools (e.g.skype or Twitter), and
geographicalpositioning tols (e.g. GPS devices) can be
integrated in meaningful applications that allow elderly people
to “extend” their social life beyond the walls of their home, to
increase the possibility to create “intersections” between their
life and the life of other people (elderly or younger) around
them and to create an “augmented neighborhood”, in which
individual capabilities are exchanged and social interaction is
enhanced. Such applications can provide elderly people with a
constantly updated map of friends, relatives, helpers an