[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Marvelous. The Simputer plus the idea of Public Computing plus promoting the > idea of governments purchasing a million or more at one time and seeing to > their distribution and we have a strategy for an attack on the digital divide > that might make a difference.
The concept of a government committing to purchasing a million or more units is not out of possibility. As I understand it, Brazil is developing a program to distribute computers to low-income families, bundling the cost of the computer with the cost of two years of internet services and financing the whole thing, with the end-users paying about $24. per month. At the end of the two years they will own the computer. Target volume: 1,000,000 units. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
