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From rssfeeds@jmason.org Tue Sep 24 10:47:34 2002
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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@example.com>
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Subject: Turning junk computers into activist gold
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:00:38 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85481566
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Date: Not supplied
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Great article on a group of East Bay activists who rehab junk computers, using
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semi-skilled volunteers who train other semi-skilled volunteers. The resulting
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computers are sent to the developing world for activist use.
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For the Amazonian villages where there's no electricity or where phone
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lines are scarce, the activists plan to set up free computer labs in the
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nearby cities. Many cities already have commercial Internet cafes, but they
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cost about a dollar per hour of use, Henshaw-Plath says, which is about a
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day's wage for most of the population.
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The IMC activists plan to ship off these computers to Guayaquil, Ecuador's
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main port city, by the end of September. Because none of the computers are
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being sold in Ecuador, and because they're being transferred from an
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American nonprofit to an Ecuadorian one, the activists won't be charged any
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international shipping duties on the computers. "It's what you call real
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free trade," says Eddie Nix.
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Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Markoffcharney!_)
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[1] http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/23/antiglobal_geeks/index.html
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[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/gSpjZZSBcWc84
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