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The Access Rainbow: Conceptualizing Universal Access to the Information/Communications Infrastructure

The Access Rainbow: Conceptualizing Universal Access to the Information/Communications Infrastructure
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Author(s): Andrew Clement (University of Toronto, Canada)and Leslie R. Shade (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Copyright: 2000
Pages: 20
Source title: Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Michael Gurstein (Technical University of British Columbia, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-878289-69-8.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter presents the Access Rainbow, a seven-layer conceptual model of access to the information/communications infrastructure intended to strengthen public interest perspectives in current information highway policy discussions. In particular, it aims to provide the basis for a workable definition of universal access and point to concrete steps for achieving this ideal.

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