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Ministry proposes ban on used computers
Information and Communications PS, Dr Bitange Ndemo, says his ministry is proposing to Treasury to include in the next year’s Budget a ban on used computers. Photo/FILE
Posted Monday, March 8 2010 at 00:00
Several non- governmental organisations, such as Computer-Aid International and Computer for Schools Kenya (CFSK) are among those who have been receiving computers from donors and distributing them to the learning institutions.
However, CFSK is among the organisations that have embarked on projects to reduce e-waste in the country.
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Come on Ndemo u was my biggest fan but now you are tripping .....i mean how can you say we have problem with used computers as long am concerned we dont have Pentium 1,2,3's in the market all used computers brought in nowadays are Pentium 4 Lowest been 1.8ghz 256Mb /512mb ,secondly everyone is slowing moving from CRT to LCDS right now 15" LCD used ones are going for Sh 6500... Now Ndemo do want to take us back to the days of Fake clowns?
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There is a distinction between hardware and software. While a ten year old (Yr 2000) PC may not run windows 7 it can run linux distributions such as Kubuntu which would still allow a user to keep up. The problem in my view would be shipping PCs running Windows 2000 or Windows 98 and having children hit the market and finding themselves immediately at a disadvantage. Hardware is not the problem. We have netbooks in the market with hardware specs most would consider dated outselling full featured laptops. We need to be more open about the software being used
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