Revisiting the Access Rainbow

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v20i2.5906

Keywords:

Universal Access, Artificial intelligence, Human Rights, Information Infrastructures

Abstract

The Access Rainbow offers a 7-layer socio-technical model for universal access that has been widely discussed in CI. For the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Journal of Community Informatics (JOCI), we explore what this public interest model of universal access foreshadowed as critical issues about AI and emerging information infrastructures. Looking forward, we challenge CI scholars to continue to leverage the Access Rainbow model to foreground human rights issues, and to continue the empowerment-oriented work associated with CI activism in datafied and algorithmically intensive domains.

Author Biographies

Karen Louise Smith, Brock University

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University

Leslie Regan Shade, University of Toronto

Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Andrew Clement, University of Toronto

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

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Published

2024-11-04

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Points of View