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Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures & -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Figure 1.1: A Summary of Colaizz's Strategy for Phenomological Data -- E-Democracy: Forstering Inclusion and Equity -- Figure 2.1: Principles of Good Governance -- Enabling the Disabled: Challenges, Mitigation Strategies and Outcomes -- Figure 3.1: The Challenges that Women with Disability Face -- Table 3.1: Barriers to participation by disability type and relevant solutions -- Assistive Technology -- Figure 4.1: Expert assessment of the contribution of ICTs to improving persons with disabilities' access to social and economic activities -- Figure 4.2: Impactful Technologies -- 'Knowledge' and 'Talk' but No 'Inclusion' and No 'Equity' -- Accessing the Political Spaces: Challenges and Solutions -- Conclusion: Assistive Democracy -- Figure 7.1: Innovative ICT Voting Solutions -- References -- Index.

AbstractThis paper considers the deep-seated roots of income inequality in the structure of Latin American economics. These include unequal distribution of land ownership, the "Kuznets effect" of rapid industrialization, regressive tax systems, and failure of governments to pursue aggressively income equalization policies. While examples are drawn from the experience of Brazil and Mexico, similar conclusions hold for other countries of the region.