Third World Computing

The Register has Corporates! Give your PCs to Africa, a drive by Computer Aid International to get corporations to donate their “end-of-life PCs” to a good cause.

“In the West, organisations consign millions of usable PCs to the scrap heap each year. … End-of-life PCs are worthless to most companies − but invaluable to school children. Companies have written down the value of their redundant computers to nil, and all they see is a headache in getting rid of their old kit. We can take care of the headaches, while at the same time ensuring that the PCs go to very good causes.“”

So, if you’ve got a lot of old computers your company no longer needs or you know of someone who does, check out Computer Aid for more information on donating them.

Africa’s in serious trouble, folks. The least we can do is donate hardware that will help educate them and try to help out. It won’t cost you anything as the machine is probably a liability on this side of the ocean. That continent has very little good news; in fact, the National Post is reporting in Africans ‘faced with extinction’ that latest studies show that “…AIDS will chop life expectancy below 40 in 11 countries − 27 in Botswana”.