Impact of PCs to poor people programme?
Howard Lake | 29 May 2001 | News
The Financial Times has reported that the Government’s plan in October 2000 to hand out 35,000 PCs to poor people has resulted in some of the laptops appearing on the black market at £100 each.
The Financial Times has reported that the Government’s plan in October 2000 to hand out 35,000 PCs to poor people has resulted in some of the laptops appearing on the black market at £100 each. Was this a sound method of bridging the Digital Divide? The Register doesn’t think so. Read their scathing commentary in Free PCs for the poor on sale in black market by Drew Cullen at The Register.
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