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DRAGnet International Disability Network
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(DIDnet)
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Mission and Strategy
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October, 1994
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We believe
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QUALITY information
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is the most powerful tool of self-empowerment.
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-> MISSION <-
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To locate, gather, and distribute quality disability information,
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information resources and information management tools for people
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with diverse disabilities, their families and care-givers, health,
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medical and rehabilitation specialists and for private, non-profit
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and government agencies.
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To serve as catalyst, organizer, resource, researcher and policy
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analyst supporting healthy disability community and improved
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quality of life through technology and policy research, accessible
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technology development and humane disability policy.
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To encourage free sharing of public information, active access to
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information resources, recycle assistive and adaptive computer
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technology and promoting ethical disability research.
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To work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to
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help people with disabilities build their capacity to solve their
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own disability-related problems, strengthen and enable individual
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communities to interconnect with the broader disability community
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and help shape policies promoting responsible disability culture.
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-> STRATEGY AND GOALS <-
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Provide a reliable, customer-service oriented computer network
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accommodating all three major technical specifications (QWK, FTS, and
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Internet) to globally link people with disabilities.
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Cultivate new sources of information (social, economic, commercial
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and political) and facilitate their transfer into electronic formats
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to increase distribution and translation into accessible formats.
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Encourage greater useful participation in discussions across
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disability groups and among different participants (individuals,
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specialists, professionals), leading to greater disability cultural
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awareness and information exchange.
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Expand the use and support of "electronic support groups", where
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people with disabilities collectively address issues of importance.
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Encourage greater discussion of difficult disability issues and the
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individual broadening of perspectives regarding needs outside their
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own.
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Encourage positive and supportive economic, social and political role
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models of, by and for people with disabilities which benefit
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individual disability cultures within the broader disability
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community and as productive members of society at large.
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For More Information
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FREQ: DIDNET from one of the system addresses listed below.
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DRAGnet International Disability Network (DIDnet) is a project of
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DRAGnet: Disability Resources, Affiliates and Groups Network, a
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501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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DRAGnet
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119 N. Fourth Street
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Suite 405
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Minneapolis, MN 55401
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612/338-2535 (voice)
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612/338-2569 (fax)
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612/753-1943 (bbs)
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DIDnet - 49:1/1
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FidoNet - 1:282/1007
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SiMNet - 16:612/33
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Gordon Gillesby, DRAGnet President/CEO
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