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Silver
Topic ICTs and Social Exclusion
Participants | German Bula | Tony Gill | Patrick Humphreys | John Mingers | Costas Tsouvalis |
Critics | Rebecca Herron | Clive Holtham | Loet Leydesdorff | Bob Malcolm | Neil Stewart |

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Outcome Resolve


Co-ordinator = Tony Gill

Technologies in the widest sense are neutral.

However, as an action:

  1. There is a need to model restrictive language/systems.
  2. In doing so there is a need to bring in people who have a richer language (e.g. the excluded, elderly, etc.).
  3. As a consequence, niches may be discovered for exploitation via the discourse of access.