Steve Eskow suggests that governments buy very large numbers of computers
(simputers, Mobilis or the Negroponte equivalent) and give them away to
telecentres nation wide. But a telecentre is not just the computing
equipment. It is much more, very much more. It involves a great deal of
content development, skill building, and becoming the cetre of all
activities of the village/locality/ region. And a lot of partnership
building and networking. The governments will soon find that paying the
dollars for buying these gadgets is the easiest part, and running a
suuccessful telecentre is a far more difficult job.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Steve Eskow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group"
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:08 AM
Subject: RE: [DDN] Update on the Simputer
Mr. John Hibbs writes:
<<At 10:02 AM -0700 5/29/05, Dr. Steve Eskow wrote:
If the Simputer is a superior product, and mass producing it will
dramatically lower its price, the Simputer firm might emulate Negroponte
and
insist on mass orders.>>
"Insist"? How?>>
As I understand the Negroponte idea, by taking no orders for less than a
million of the $100 computer.
A government, then, might spend $100,000,000 to purchase a million
computers, and then establish a nation-wide system of community
telecenters,
furnishing each telecenter with one or more computers at its cost, or
subsidized in whole or in part.
Steve Eskow
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