DocumentCode :
749549
Title :
CUTTING THE COST OF COMPUTING - Hardware and softwaremakers are eager to help emerging economies join the information revolution
Author :
Collins, Luke
Volume :
2
Issue :
2
fYear :
2007
Firstpage :
34
Lastpage :
37
Abstract :
Widespread efforts are underway to bring computing to the developing world in an effort to make access to information more widely available, and so help developing countries help themselves. This paper describes a number of initiatives in both hardware and software engineering that are aimed at bringing down the cost of computing, and so make the communications and access to information that the developed world takes for granted much more widely available
Keywords :
information technology; public domain software; socio-economic effects; Linux; One Laptop Per Child Program; Open Source movement; Personal Internet Communicator; Simputer; Unix; cost cutting; information access; information revolution; low cost computing; lower cost commercial codes;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Engineering & Technology
Publisher :
iet
ISSN :
1750-9637
Type :
jour
Filename :
4135949
Link To Document :
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