The BCS’s Disability Specialist Group: a force on the move
For many years, the Disability Specialist Group of the British
Computer Society has been a leading activist in promoting a culture of
enablement for disabled people. Its one-time chairman, now BCS Advisor
on Disability Issues, Dr Geoffrey Busby describes the Group’s
main current activities.
keywords: disability,
information and communications technologies, social inclusion
abstract
This article describes the activities of the British Computer
Society’s Disability Specialist Group and the Society itself. It has
been a voice in bringing about legislation so that people with
disabilities can become better-integrated members of our society, which
wishes to be inclusive. ICTs alone will not be able to facilitate such a
major change and affect the general perception held by the vast majority
of people who believe they are immune from disability. Miniaturisation
in communications tools is threatening to be a force for exclusion
rather than inclusion, and the medical profession must become much more
aware of the social aspects that affect their patients with
disabilities.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2003; 20(9): 18–19. |
