Low Cost Computers
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There are two reasons to investigate low cost computers>
- to reduce your computing costs
- to enable the poor to have access to ICT
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Accessible Technology
- One Laptop per Child Project - The $100 laptop
- Inveneo a nonprofit the "focuses on designing, integrating and supporting affordable technology systems that match the needs of people and organizations in under-served areas of the world." They have some lower costs solutions
- AMD's 50x15 initiative - aims to provide ICT access to 50% of the world by 2015.
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Used Computers
There are a number of organisations which refurbish used computers and pass them on to charities, hospitals, orphanages, schools, and other non-profit groups. You can find a number of them listed in the Computer Re-use Optimisation Project. gjs