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A substantial point of research of the FhG-FIT (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology) project group TEDIS (Technological Enabling of Disabled and Elderly) is to examine to what extent the potentials of information technology and new media can be used to allow humans with impairments to participate more equally and self-determined in the social and economic life of our future “Knowledge Society.” Technology- and society critics in this regard object the progressive informatisation of all areas of life to lead to a new social splitting. Sarcastically they already talk about a new “Internet Apartheid.”
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Pieper, M., Morasch, H., Piéla, G. (2002). Bridging the Education Divide. In: Keates, S., Langdon, P., Clarkson, P.J., Robinson, P. (eds) Universal Access and Assistive Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3719-1_12
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