Corporations and disability rights : bridging the digital divide
By: Pathakji, Neha.
Publisher: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2018Description: xxv, 331p.ISBN: 9780199485239.Subject(s): Law -- People with disabilities--Legal status, laws -- Corporation law -- Digital divide -- Computers and people with disabilitiesDDC classification: 004.087 Summary: This book explores the interplay between the human rights of persons with disabilities and corporate obligation towards the creation of an inclusive and accessible Internet. It engages with the contemporary discourse on the nature of the right to access the Internet and contextualizes the same within the framework of emerging disability rights jurisprudence. It articulates that the existing digital divide is an extension of social injustice to persons with disabilities from the physical world to the virtual world. It is argued that conceptualizing the right to access the Internet as merely an enabling right is oversimplifying an otherwise complex issue. The book advances the argument that under disability rights jurisprudence, the right to access the Internet is a human right. In this context, it questions the role of corporations as gatekeepers of the virtual world and investigates the extent and scope of corporate human rights obligations. The book offers a pioneering strategy to obtain compliance from corporations.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 004.07 KEY- Key to the computer: introduction to electronic data processing | 004.072 SHA-S Shodh pravidhiyan avem suchana prodhogiki (Research methods and information technology | 004.0723 SAR-C Computer-assisted interviewing | 004.087 PAT-C Corporations and disability rights | 004.087 VAR-D Disability and Information Technology | 004.091724 BAA-; Context of national information systems in developing countries:India and China in a comparative perspective | 004.0954 TRI-S Suchana proudhyogiki ka vaishvik paridrasy |
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This book explores the interplay between the human rights of persons with disabilities and corporate obligation towards the creation of an inclusive and accessible Internet. It engages with the contemporary discourse on the nature of the right to access the Internet and contextualizes the same within the framework of emerging disability rights jurisprudence. It articulates that the existing digital divide is an extension of social injustice to persons with disabilities from the physical world to the virtual world. It is argued that conceptualizing the right to access the Internet as merely an enabling right is oversimplifying an otherwise complex issue. The book advances the argument that under disability rights jurisprudence, the right to access the Internet is a human right. In this context, it questions the role of corporations as gatekeepers of the virtual world and investigates the extent and scope of corporate human rights obligations. The book offers a pioneering strategy to obtain compliance from corporations.
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