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>From: Mike Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 02 June 1999 1:13 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [scotdisinfo] Chair for Advisory group
>
>Disability Scotland received £220,000 from the national lottery last
>September to set up a Local Groups Internet Support Network
>
>Project Aims
>
>A major barrier to full inclusion in society is lack of information. This
>project aims to ensure that groups of disabled people will have the means to
>access data via the Internet.
>
>50 groups will be supplied with equipment, connected to the Internet and
>given a web site over the two years of the project.
>
>Research into existing provision will take the form of an audit into
>information and technology needs. One of the outcomes will be a Directory of
>Local Disability Information Providers for Scotland in electronic and other
>formats.
>
> Partners in the project include RICA, SCVO and Making Connections Unit based
>at Glasgow Caledonian University.
>
> One of the first tasks of the project was to set up an Advisory Group, which
>was established in January 1999. The remit of the group is to monitor and
>evaluate the project and consider its future development.
>
>This group is be made up of local disability groups and representatives from
>Disability Scotland, Making Connections Unit and Scottish Council for
>Voluntary Organisations
>
> The first objective of the group was to set up six pilots, which will run
>for a six-month period, commencing March 1999. The second will be to
>determine criteria for selecting the remaining 44 sites.
>
> Current members of the Advisory Group are:
>
> Members
>
>Mike Brown Disability Scotland
>Jeanette Booker Lothian Coalition of Disabled People
>Jill Reid Family Advice Information Resource
>Jim Byrne Making Connections Unit
>Mark Mcgowan Planet Online
>John Dow SCVO
>
> We are looking for a disabled person to chair this group. The next meeting
>of the group will be on June 17th at the Norton Park Resource Centre
>Edinburgh.
>
>If you are interested please Email me as soon as possible.
>
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