To all who donate computers to developing countries (or local
intermediaries who solicit donations):
Have you ever considered simply sending the cash instead, with the final
recipient (not the local intermediary) deciding how to spend the cash
themselves? If the computers are already zero value
Here in Nunavut, Canada
we take donated computers and the young folks in our high schools are
shown how to check and recondition them and then they are distributed to
the schools or the Internet Access points in the communities...
George Lessard, Media Specialist
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Moderates
At 9:46 PM +0100 25/06/2003, Tony Roberts wrote:
What we need to do is make an appropriate distinction between dumping
and providing quality, fully refurbished, Pentium PCs into contexts
where the appropriate capacity is already in place to make productive
use of them. This means that secure
