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Title:
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USING WEB FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: A CASE STUDY |
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Author(s):
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Martin Svihla , Ivan Jelinek |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-16-X |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Maggie McPherson and Frank Bannister |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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Social inclusion, web technologies, homelessness, street-papers. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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120 |
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Last Page:
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123 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Developed countries put strong effort in tackling social exclusion, a problem caused by combination of poverty,
unemployment, poor housing, disability and discrimination. Information technologies offer considerable potential to
support solutions to exclusion problems.
In this paper we describe a project that use current web technologies to help socially excluded people to re-integrate to
the society. The platform for our project is a street-paper, a magazine sold mostly by homeless people. We designed and
deployed a web portal that enables street-paper vendors to communicate with readers through the internet. Moreover, by
means of the portal we motivate our vendors to learn how to use computer and web, which is a key competence that may
help them to find a job later.
This paper describes basic concepts of the case study, its design and implementation details. |
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