NTEN has released the full text of their report, Nonprofits, NTAPs and Information Technology (PDF file), which looks at the attitudes of 70 nonprofits toward technology, nonprofit technology assistance projects (NTAPs), and their most recent technology projects.

In its 1999 Enforcement Guidance on Reasonable Accommodation and Undue Hardship Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (revised 10/17/02), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that allowing an individual with a disability to work at home may be a form of reasonable accommodation. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodation for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. Reasonable accommodation is any change in the work environment or in the way things are customarily done that enables an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform a job, or gain equal access to the benefits and privileges of a job. The ADA does not require an employer to provide a specific accommodation if it causes undue hardship, i.e., significant difficulty or expense.

Not all persons with disabilities need - or want - to work at home. And not all jobs can be performed at home. But, allowing an employee to work at home may be a reasonable accommodation where the person's disability prevents successfully performing the job on-site and the job, or parts of the job, can be performed at home without causing significant difficulty or expense.

This fact sheet explains the ways that employers may use existing telework programs or allow an individual to work at home as a reasonable accommodation.

THE GOOGLING OF AMERICA (Boston Globe 2 Feb 2003)

The search engine Google is changing the kind of information Americans can find out about each other -- information that once was the purview of private investigators or the extremely nosy. Now with one click, potential employers, salespeople, and just about anyone can find out every publicly reported detail of your past life, says Boston Globe columnist Neil Swidey. "Now, in states where court records have gone online, and thanks to the one-click ease of Google, you can read all the sordid details of your neighbor's divorce with no more effort than it takes to check your e-mail. 'It's the collapse of inconvenience,' says Siva Vaidhyanathan, assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. 'It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.'"

Regarding that last one, I'm still shaking my head that it's only NOW that some people understand this. Hell, I wrote an article about this sort of thing back in 1997 called "Privacy? What Privacy?" that pointed out this and some other related issues.

The article itself also bugs me because they talk about - repeatedly - how it's Google that changed this all. Uh, no. Google is just the most popular search engine today and the amount of information out there has increased to astounding proportions. Anybody who "didn't see Google coming" obviously wasn't on the Internet and using search engines. Geez people, these things have been around since the beginnings of the WWW! I was using Altavista and Infoseek back in 1995!

*sigh* There's just so much I and many of my friends tried to say back then and NOBODY was listening. And now it's all a big revelation to some folks. Hrmph.

Here's some more stuff:

• The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• INternet Research Ethics
• Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research
  
  
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