Joining the Information Society: Access Issues for Europeans
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Acknowledgements: The research and writing of this report was supported by the European Commission DG XIII within the ACTS Programme in the FAIR Project (AC093). The opinions and viewpoints expressed herein are those of the authors and may or may not accord with the views of members of the European Commission.
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