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In the ambit of the European Telework Week 98, INSIEL (Finsiel-Telecom Italia http://www.finsiel.it) and the Italian partner of ETD (European Telework Development) (http://www.mclink.it/telelavoro) have designed and implemented an online questionnaire for gathering the best experiences of integration of disabled people into companies, public institutions and universities.

This task has been accomplished in the context of ISdAC (Information Society disAbilities Challenge http://www.isdac.org ), an organisation of (and managed by) People with Disabilities (whose aim is to facilitate a successful access of disabled persons to the Information Society), with the endorsement of DG XIII of the European Commission (http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg13/13home.htm).

In 1997 ISdAC (of which Insiel is a co-founder) received the European Commission Telework Week award for the Most Original Contribution to Telework by the European Commission.

The "investigation", carried on by means of the questionnaire, will not be neither a "census" nor a "sampling" of best practices. In fact this investigation cannot (and does not want to) have a strictly scientific approach but rather a pragmatic one as the data collected will permit us:

a) to have some concrete knowledge of the state-of-the-art of the integration of PwDs in work and of the sectors in which disabled have more possibilities to be integrated in environments of work (both as teleworkers or as "normal" workers using ICTs);

b) to know the type of employers who have engaged people with disabilities;

c) to know better the type of education which has led those disabled people to have a successful integration in the world of work;

d) to collect possible suggestions and advices, expressed in free text, by the employers as regards the problems encountered for the real integration of disabled in the Information Society.

The results of the gathering will be published on various European webs, and maybe also in printed form, and will be used both for European wide publications showing best practices and for improving the actions for integrating PwDs in the Information Society.

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