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Education and Soap Operas all at the same time. Will wonders never cease. And also, Al Gore can fork over some more carbon credits to help usuage and future guilt on the part of the students in the up until now non-existent contribution to global warming. What a wonderful world. Oh, I would be remiss. First
Nice piece. Was that an actual joke at the end? Ruud, you card.
Why were all those poor monitors being stored on their screens?
I would have liked some more info on what the people in Nairobi are using the computers to do: What applications are they running? What do they hope to use the computers for, aside from school? (I know, it was a short report.)
And, assuming these are older machines, what are the OS options? I didn’t see a Vista-ready box in the bunch. We talking Linux? That would be a most interesting development in the whole Digital Divide realm.
Whatever happened to the various efforts to put cheapo computers in the hands of people in “developing” nations?
So this is how all those email scammers are trained!
I wonder if all the hard drives have been properly wiped by the companies of origin. Sounds like the initiative could become a potential data mining operation especially to inquisitive school students.
Most of the monitors go back to the country of origin. ??????????????????????
Yeah, right!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1108_051108_electronic_waste.html
I think he meant most of the monitors that they have already collected through their particular organization.
Not a Mac in the bunch!
Like leron, I also wondered why they stacked the things screen down & why return old monitors? They don\’t work, we don\’t want them, just bury them in your own back yard & maybe they\’ll turn into diamonds someday.
& Mr. Kisilu, setting a new couture trend w/a checkered tie & checkered shirt.
later people
Love these stories from Ruud.
This is all very well but it ignores the fact that there are people in USA who are too poor to afford computers of their own. So, to speak of the Environment, why ship a 50 pound desktop computer — burning fossil fuels to do so — a few thousand miles to Africa when that computer is needed here?
The answer is shamefully that aid organizations are run by people who are eager to help out their corporate sponsors (and the UN, which tows the same line) to keep old computers off the market here in the USA, which has the purpose of boosting corporate profits and pushing the poor in yet another way towards indebtedness.
All these theorists. It’s a conspiracy I tell you… Just the facts now please. Question. Theory. Evidence. Answer.
And I really don’t think you can say the UN tows any line. That rather assumes that the UN is (in any sense) an effective body.
I’ve been a wanderer around the US before. Free computer use at your local library (even for tourists!). Best still you can pick up some hilarious obscure titles from the 50 cents or less trolley. I treasure my copy of “Space Rhino.
Oh, good episode by the way.
True, there are problems in America. There are also organizations focused on doing the same thing in America. Secondly, most American libraries have free computer access. I know, I used the public terminal often before I owned a computer.
For the poor, who often don\’t own cars and take public transportation everywhere, going to the library may be inconvenient depending on the city, especially outside of big cities.
Does anyone actually watch this anymore?
Yes, I do.
And I\’m thinking you just did.
Just us? Well don\’t be shy. Let\’s start a secret society you and I.
Thanks for dropping bye bye.
I love your show!!!!