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Story: Maddog cautions SA against one laptop per child projectTotal Replies: 0
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May 17, 2006
11:40 AM EDT 		>'"Now I'm not saying it is a bad project, but I have alternative for you," he [Jon "Maddog" Hall] said. "If some of the banks, financial institutions, engineering organisations [etc], decided that they, when they upgrade their computer systems, were going to allow them to be taken apart, refurbished and put back together, and employ people in South Africa to do that and then sell them for $100 a piece, you might find that will generate a huge number of jobs for people and the money will stay inside of South Africa.'

Maddog's suggestion makes sense, in conjunction with the laptop project.

I used something similar on a much, much smaller scale to get some computers to people who didn't already have one. A local business let me add a request for old computers and parts on their monthly customer bills for one month. A local bank responded with 2 SUV's full of good parts. All I had to do was match 'em up to make working systems and then match those systems to people.

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