BBCより。
Keepod: Can a $7 stick provide billions computer access?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27346567
USBスティックにOSを入れて配ることで、全世界で２／３のデジタルディバイドを解消しようとする試みに、ファンドによる資金が集まったという。
一日の収入が２ドルなんていうところもあるケニア。
そこでのインターネットアクセスに不自由している者を助けたいというもの。
これはOSだけなので合わせてリサイクルPCの提供といったプログラムも用意しているようだ。
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The USB flash drive is one of the most simple, everyday pieces of technology that many people take for granted. Now it's being eyed as a possible solution to bridging the digital divide, by two colourful entrepreneurs behind the start-up Keepod.
Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi aim to combat the lack of access to computers by providing what amounts to an operating-system-on-a-stick.
In six weeks, their idea managed to raise more than $40,000 (£23,750) on fundraising site Indiegogo, providing the cash to begin a campaign to offer low-cost computing to the two-thirds of the globe's population that currently has little or no access.
The test bed for the project is the slums of Nairobi in Kenya.
The typical income for the half a million people in the city's Mathare district is about $2 (£1.20) a day.
Keepod Keepod is Hebrew for the word hedgehog. It is also a play on words, as it joins the English word "keep" with the Hebrew word "od", meaning "everything".
Very few people here use a computer or have access to the net.
But Mr Bahar and Mr Imbesi want to change that with their Keepod USB stick.
It will allow old, discarded and potentially non-functional PCs to be revived, while allowing each user to have ownership of their own "personal computer" experience - with their chosen desktop layout, programs and data - at a fraction of the cost of providing a unique laptop, tablet or other machine to each person.・・・
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