As a head of NTIC programme in Burkina Faso let me emphasize the fact that the gap between third world and developed courties is so high that we cannot make any comparison. I am also convinced that second hand computers may be of some help in third world. As you know more than 2/3 of the population in Africa are living with less than one dollar per day. Therefore how can they manage to get a brand new pc.?
Daniel Makundi wrote: > In support of Mr. Njungu. I have always protested aloud whenever I hear > someone mentioning in a meeting something to the effect "they are > turning 3rd world countries into obsolete computer dumping ground". > > There is nothing like obsolete here: a 486/66 pc with 500 MB HDD and 16 > MB RAM will nicely install Win95 and Office97 and leave you plenty of > room for your data files. > > Doesn't sound like much, but, obtained at $80 (system unit, color > monitor, keyboard and mouse), a person or school that would otherwise > never dream of acquiring a computer. > > Please keep donating the used PCs and accessories, we out here do > appreciate them very much. > > D. Makundi > Dar es Salaam > > Larry Njungu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...it is suprising that some of us running training Institutions in the > > third world are not seeing these donated computers coming forth even to > > warrant such fears. > > > > It is therefore my request to my learned, updated and advanced > > colleagues on this forum to avail me addresses or procedures of > > acquiring donated computers from the first world so that we can at least > > get started with computer technology and be in the computer age like > > everybody else in the world. ------------ ***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/>
