Mimano, I beg to disagree. If you have a smart phone, you are primarily a client, using services and products created by others. However, if you have a laptop, you can create products and services which can then be sold to other 'clients'. I would imagine that the 1 million laptops are not meant to be acquired then stashed in the house for the occasional movie or gaming session, but they are meant to be a stimulus to grow the ICT industry. If my assumption is correct, then the people who would benefit most from these laptops are those in the ICT or related industries. Further building upon that assumption, then skunks would not be the most ideal people to have those laptops because, and i stand to be corrected, a majority of skunks have at least one PC or laptop at their disposal. Therefore, to conclude my assumption, the people who would benefit most from laptops are ICT students in the colleges, universities and high schools. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Putty Session <putty.session@gmail.com>wrote:
Think about the battery charge of your smart phone!
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Geoffrey Mimano <gmimano@datadyne.org>wrote:
At this age where handheld devices are becoming the preferred computing device for majority of the population I'd prefer a 1 million *smartphone*campaing. My views are:
- That in the the cities, most guys will prefer laptop to the mobile phone. True. but there is only so much you can do with a laptop if you are not a developer or an IT person. Majority of the population is the non-IT people. - That in the rural areas guys would prefer a smart mobile to a laptop beacause. - It can serve as a substitute for several lacking infrastructures and services. - It's convenience and ease of use. Easy to learn how to access and use new functionality - And the most important for everybody is that mobile services are not dependent on any kind of physical addressing scheme (i.e physical adress).
Think about having your secretary, bank, news agent, entertainment portal, communication equipment e.t.c right in your pocket.
Goeff
2009/7/29 Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal@voicesofafrica.org>
I am in complete agreement with Alex. This opportunity is to great to stay behind closed doors. Crystal
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com>wrote:
Yea.. this is good; bet Alex has to come up with something nice... How much possible is it for such a good initiative to be wasted? But having a relevant community like Skunkworks taking it up might be all the start that's needed.
On 7/28/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
Could I try and get PS Ndemo to talk to us on "how-to" get one of those 1 million laptops stimulus?
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/628254/-/u8x1...
just an interest gauge here....
regards,
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