social exclusion and technology - any comments folks?

Dear Bernard Leach,

Hello! I'm doing a sociology doctorate, but I'm actually getting in
touch regarding the part of my life that pays the bills, which is
researching stuff for the BBC2 progrmme The Daily Politics.
I'm looking into a piece on social exclusion and technology for
tomorrow's show, specifically the recent ODPM report. The approach will
probably be along the lines of "broadband for the homeless - it sounds
mad, but the reasons why it's not are all interesting".

I saw that this was one of your interests when Technorati brought me to
your course blog; I was wondering if you had a comment to make on the
report? Jamie McCoy, the homeless blogger I'm sure you're familiar with,
has shared some thoughts here:

http://jamiesbigvoice.blogspot.com/2005/11/answer-to-alan-conner.html

Apologies for getting in touch unsolicited and at short notice, but I
thought it might be something that was up your street.
best
Alan Connor


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