<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fa088c49-9704-4bec-923d-f52a85a4c188/F0DC3A3B-49EB-4FBB-B55C-1CBE583086B7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ndiyo.org/intro/summary" href="http://www.ndiyo.org/intro/summary" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ndiyo.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndiyo.org/intro/summary"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The traditional model of networked computing - one PC per user - has some major flaws: <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It's much too expensive for most of the world to afford</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It has a very high environmental cost</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The distributed complexity is difficult to manage</LI> </UL> So, although it has worked for the first billion people on the planet, it <I>cannot</I> be the long-term solution for providing IT to the world. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndiyo.org/intro/summary"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">We therefore <I>must</I> find another model, unless we are going to tell two-thirds of the world that they cannot participate in this new digital world we've created.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndiyo.org/intro/summary"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Ndiyo has a model. It's not the only one, nor necessarily the best one, but it does work now using today's technology. It's based on sharing the power of a PC between several users at once. Today's computers are easily capable of supporting multiple users, but in the past there hasn't been a convenient and affordable way to do this. Now there is.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndiyo.org/intro/summary"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Ndiyo is a donor-supported non-profit UK organisation working to make this model accessible to the world.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F0DC3A3B-49EB-4FBB-B55C-1CBE583086B7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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