Enabling E-Democracy - Disability, Social Exclusion and ICT
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By Kevin Carey and Rosario Gracia-Luque
Date: 01/02/2002
Preface
This report was initially prepared at the request of the Hansard Society. The initial brief was to provide an overview of information communication technology (ICT), e-democracy and access by disabled people but as digital technology is passing from scarcity to ubiquity we felt that it was impossible to draw a firm line between general social exclusion and ICT exclusion resulting specifically from disability. Indeed, a central point of the Report is its questioning of the sharp divide between those who are and are not disabled.
This report does not attempt to provide a detailed explanation of the technical solution of the problem. It is simply an analysis which leads to a set of conclusions and recommendations.
As it is more than a year since the Hansard Society received the work and has not published nor paid for it, we regard this document as the intellectual property of humanITy but regard it as confidential until the Hansard Society either publishes or relinquishes all rights.
Kevin Carey and Rosario Gracia-Luque
Hurstpierpoint, February 2002
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