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Small box 'to end digital divide'

Publication:BBC NewsDate:Apr 30 2005
Reporter:Jo Twist

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A pared down "computer" to replace bulky, grey desktop PCs could help close global digital inequalities.

Not-for-profit developers, Ndiyo - the Swahili word for "yes" - said it could open up the potential of computing to two billion more people.

The sub-£100 box, called Nivo, runs on open-source software and is known as a "thin client". Several can be linked up to a central "brain", or server.




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