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The problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it (like Xubuntu). So poor people can have a fine computer for free.

That's easy to arrange, at practically no costs. All you need is a group of volunteers, to amass the dumped computers (or computers about to be dumped by companies), install the software and redistribute them.

The real problem lies elsewhere: access to the internet. That's the real challenge: how do you provide poor people with affordable internet access? Aid programmes should focus on that, because that's where the money is needed.

Greeting, Pjotr.
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