Computers for Africa

[Ry Jones <rjones@moscow.com>]

http://www.insidedenver.com/business/0816cov1.shtml

Remember that debate we were having about how useful is a 486? Go there for 
the answer.

Leah Jung, a Denver consultant who
               advises corporations on how to handle
               high-tech waste, said she got a rude
               awakening when she suggested during an
               interview with a radio network that
               consumers donate their old computer
               equipment to charities that ship it to
               impoverished communities overseas.

               "I got slammed with e-mail from Third
               World countries," Jung said. "Basically the
               message was, 'Don't make us a dumping
               ground for your old equipment."'
--
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
   -- Gandhi