Ken Jarboe
At 12:52 PM 3/3/2005, you wrote:
A suggestion to Andy Carvin in the form of a question:
Is there now available online a good course on computer service and repair that woould make it possible for those in the poorer countries to keep their computers running?
Whether a computer in a poor community costs $100 or $1000, the odds are that it will soon need attention that requires knowledge and skill not readily available in the community.
For example: I visited schools in Belize recently that had been given good computers by one of the organizations that collects and rehabilitates computers and ships them them to those needing them--and most of them were covered with clothes waiting for repair that might never happen.
If our Digital Divide Network might focus on this matter of computer service and repair, we might attack this matter of the divide from the angle of maintenance, and this would be a great contribution to narrowing the divide.
Steve Eskow
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