情報ネットワークの活用による重症心身障害者の社会参加と取り巻く諸問題施設入所者のホームページによる社会参加支援

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Because of the enforcement of the law of IT (information technology), the utilization of IT for handicapped people has been improved as the same level as Western counties in recent years. This movement of IT for handicapped people has also spread to Asahikawa city. The activity for development and spread of IT for social welfare has been enforced since April 1995. In this activity, the local intranet consisted of G-bits networks, CATV networks, and the WDM devices will be established and support Fukushi-mura (15 welfare institutions, 1500 handicapped people, 1000 workers). The objectives of this intranet network are 1) Using networks, people of advanced years and handicapped people can participate the social activities. 2) Opening information, the efficient of the welfare service. 3) The remoteness medical and welfare services. In this report, we would like to clear the some difficulties and problems when handicapped people commit the information networks by having own home page. We certified following facts. 1) It is extremely difficult to make and maintain own home pages for serious handicapped people without any helps: 90% of them need some helps by volanteers. 2) As long as having no institution's admission, it is very difficult to open personal home pages even though there is staffs comprehension. 3) Training volunteers and NPOs' support are necessary.
2003-09-30