Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norbert, I am no way a specialist of universal design - I don't > design, let alone universally - so I hope others will answer your > question as to its use for fighting the discriminations you list > below.
Claude, thanks a lot for sharing these valuable thoughts and reminding me that "universal design" is a term with an already pretty fixed meaning (which alas happens to be much less broad than I would have liked it to be, despite the adjective "universal" being part of the term). I suppose what I'm looking for is a broader alliance encompassing more concerns than juts the areas of concern which are being addressed by what is (at least currently) understood as being "universal design". The kind of broader alliance that I have in mind could perhaps be called "universal freedom design alliance": In addition to the concerns addressed by what is currently called "universal design", topics of concern would also encompass "electronic freedom" topics including privacy topics, freedom to use encryption, freedom to use software that you can be freely modified without being as a consequence locked out from impottant information sources, etc. Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Informatics Management and Consulting for Adaptability and Benefit/Cost Optimization in Harmony with Human Rights and Needs _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
