Simon Woodside wrote: > What about importing to small businesses instead? instead of donating > the computers, provide them at cost to small business owners who can > resell them and provide support services?
Hi All, We are a small Social Enterprise working mainly for Income generation using innovative technologies and new ways. I visited worldcomputerexchange.org website and found they have nicely put all relevant documents for easy comprehensive understanding of their procedures. I have my comments as following; >From Awareness and Income generation point of view: I feel donating 1 to 4 computers (included in a package deal) to any budding entrepreneur can serve the purpose equally well than only serving to schools. All the schools with donated computers will pass on expenditures on the parents, which is not good. Why put extra burden on already poor parents in form of computer fees? One can start a "small computer pub" in the locality and show others what a computer can do to their day-to-day life and earn a livelihood for the family doing typing, designing, databases and internet. * Sustainability of project comes automatically. * Infrastructure expenses are reduced to minimum. * Security of the systems is solved. * Progress can be easily monitored. * In friendly neighborhood environment, computer accessibility opportunities for the kids. Especially the Ladies/ girls (who are generally deprived of computer handling, due to social reasons) will be more comfortable to learn, earn and discuss with any friendly lady entrepreneur. One would need to follow flexible approach for every different country and be guided by local people, who understand local problems better. I am not for writing a essay here...and leave you to decide and explore this line of action too. Timothy Anderson are you ready for this? Let me know for further help. Sandeep Saxena SECRETARY SOCIETY FOR THE UNDERPRIVILEGED (SUN) India Site: http://globalers.com ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
