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Enabling the Disadvantaged Information Society (Dis)Abilities Challenge (ISDAC) The ETD "Telework and Disability: Understanding and Action" Online Interest Group is looking for expressions of support for their challenge and for new participants to join their programme. Support has already been committed by the European Telework Development Initiative. If you agree that to work on building a European Information Society in which people with disabilities can fully contribute, please take a few minutes to send a message of support to the ISDAC support group CANDO The CanDo web site at Lancaster University is a national information service for the whole of the UK aimed at disabled students, graduates, their advisers and employers. The system has a wide variety of topic areas covering job vacancies, profiles of employers who are actively trying to recruit disabled people, work experience opportunities, specialist graduate employment schemes and much more. W3C Disabilities Developments This site is devoted by the W3C (World-Wide-Web Consortium) to focus on the developments and issues of the World-Wide-Web as they relate to implementing accessibility for people with disabilities. Epitelio Network - Excluded People Integration by the use of Telematic Innovative Opportunities EPITILEO is a European project oriented to the design, development and validation of an Internet-based telematics platform to support individuals, agencies and networks concerned with the promotion of self-emloyment and teleworking in the fight against social exclusion. Autism - mutual support online A group of autistic people are collaborating online to provide mutual support to people who have this condition, which is much misunderstood and can lead to exclusion from society. Please visit the site and consider what you might do to help. EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information EASI is an Affiliate of the American Association for Higher Education. Its mission is to serve as a resource to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. EASI gathers information about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field and spreads that information to colleges, universities, K-12 schools, libraries and into the workplace. Top of page Local Communities Highlander Web Magazine The First and Only electronic magazine from, and about, the Highlands of Scotland. CIVICNET An American web site dedicated to the development of community networking. From May 22 1997 to June 30 1997 the site ran Virtual CivicNet, an on-line conference with participants from countries around the world who came together to share experience, questions, ideas, problems, and opportunities to develop and support community networking. The Center for Civic Networking (CCN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to applying information infrastructure to the broad public good - particularly by putting information infrastructure to work within local communities to improve delivery of local government services, improve access to information that people need in order to function as informed citizens, broaden citizen participation in governance, and stimulate economic and community development UK Communities On-line Forum This is a network support centre for local community networking projects and initiatives and has a wealth of useful information and links. The European Telework Development Initiative is assisting with the development of UK Communities Online and with the formation of a European network for local community networks. How you can use IT in the community A publication of UK Communities On-line, being developed as the basis of a book which is being produced for the UK Government's IT for All campaign, with support from BT Labs and the Computer Services and Software Association. It is due for publication in summer 1997 Community Access Program (Canada) CAP (Industry Canada's) Community Access program) works with rural Canadian communities to take advantage of new communication technologies. CAP's goal is to foster economic, social, and cultural growth in Canada. All CAP sites are community-based, with a variety of provincial, territorial, and national partnerships supporting these local initiatives. Top of page Global Communities A well-established and important area of telecooperation, consisting of Non-Government Organisations (NGO), single-issue pressure groups, and aid agencies, working on a global scale and outside of the established structures of global politics. Start exploring at: The Association for Progressive Communications Top of page Enhancing Democracy Democracies Online - http://www.e-democracy.org/do Promoting the development and sustainability of online civic participation and democracy efforts around the world through experience, outreach, and education. Democracies Online has launched three new services: Democracies Online Web Site - http://www.e-democracy.org/do Democracy Notes - A monthly e-mail newsletter - DO-NOTES Democracies Online Newswire - A "best of" e-list - DO-WIRE Some Current Activities Exploring Electronic Democracy: UK Citizens Online Democracy Toronto Citizens for Local Democracy Projecte de Democracia - Local a Barcelona Korean Electronic Democracy Minnesota Electronic Democracy Teledemocracy Action News + Network (TAN+N) Top of page