Greetings to all.
I thank both Peter Burgess and Guido Sohne for starting an important
debate on development.
Is development about replicating success and ensuring scarce
resources are used wisely.?
Yes, this is happening in communities where there is no intervention
from the government or the
In a message dated 6/25/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if there are computer donation programmes that go
beyond one-off donations? What if after a while people using donated
computers need upgrading and/or replacement? Who takes responsibility
for meeting with the created
Udit Chaudhuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps the only way this would work is to:
1 Collect computers used and donated in the command area itself, say
executives and offices of international companies and other
organisations who have imported the computers 3-4 years ago and are
upgrading
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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
Does anyone know if there are computer donation programmes that go
beyond one-off donations? What if after a while people using donated
computers need upgrading and/or replacement? Who takes responsibility
for meeting with the created (long term) expectations of using
computers?
Maartje Op de
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?
simon
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 12:29 AM, Raju Dev Acharya wrote:
I totally agree with Guido Sohne. In Nepal I
I totally agree with Guido Sohne. In Nepal I can buy a new PIII for
US$300. Also importing PC for distribution into the country takes a lot
of time and effort due to the never ending red tape and can take
months. This increases the cost of the PC if the cost incurred in the
host country is added
I write to correct some errors in the discussion related to our current
costs. www.WorldComputerExchange.org sources and tests donated
computers for partners in developing countries. Based on the current
amount of computers we ship, the share of costs we must receive per
donated Pentium is
I've been following with interest the discussion about sending computers
to the Third World.
The rationale is clear:
* many countries are desperate for computing power, for schools,
training, productivity, but cannot afford the latest hardware and
software
* literally millions of computers are
To My learned, advanced and updated colleagues on this forum.
It is not my intention to divert the current discussions or even to draw
you back on issues that you may have already probably discussed in the
past.
I still get back to the first issue I earlier raised on procurement of
the so called
I have been down this used p.c. road to a very great extent. In fact,
I spent several days in the Chicago area with a first class outfit that
supplies good used p.c.'s to the Illinois school system. They come
licensed by Microsoft with a later Windows 2000 o.s. and a monitor for
about $150. FOB
I was in a thread elsewhere that discussed this same issue and I also
thought that shipping used PCs makes perfect sense. The problem is the
actual cost of the used PCs when other overheads are taken into account.
Appended is an excerpt from an email I wrote concerning this:-
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
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
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