Use of Teleworking as a Tool for Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities

“Telecapacitados” has placed into the ICTs Commission of USUARIA Association and was financed by the Research International Center for IDRC, a public corporation founded by the Canadian Parliament to solve the social, economical, and political problems of developing countries. The main goal of “Telecapacitados” was to detect how many people with disability could access to find jobs or work opportunities through teleworking. To carry on the activities of this investigation that includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay, was combined a multidiscipline team of people with and without disability. The functioning of this interdiscipline team was unlocalized and constituted itself as an “including” experience of teleworking. The new technologies that let place to the start of teleworking offer work opportunities to people with disability. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have changed the working stage, diminishing the weight of some factors of exclusion. The urbanistic, architectonic, attitudinal and transporting barriers are not relevant at the hiring moment of many teleworkers. Our intention is that this work would contribute to the definition of public policies to allow the building of a more including and fair society that gives work opportunities for everybody.