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by jibla 7y ago
Agree. This is exactly the main argument of educators in favor of bigger screens and keyboard. Although Chromebooks still lack features for creation (not possible to install some software), students can still create everything that can be
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by jibla 7y ago
Good point. Btw regarding the theft issue, the laptops stay on a nonprofit balance (or a local partner balance). Which means that families are not the owners. They sign a document of so-called "temporary usage agreement". In reali
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by jibla 7y ago
Does it make more sense if we formulate it as "access to information" and not "Internet access"?
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by jibla 7y ago
They are cheaper mainly because the Chrome OS is Free (and maybe because they have almost no hard inside;) As far as we know OS and antivirus licenses make Windows more expensive.
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by jibla 7y ago
Yes, we do plan to expand in the middle east and African countries by partnering with the partners on the ground. Regarding the political issue, I'd rather don't step into these discussions as this thread has another purpose. The
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by jibla 7y ago
At the moment we are bootstrapping and co-founders work for free, but we hope to become more effective after we reach some scale. We need to keep our team running not only to pay for the internet but for students identification (Working wit
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by jibla 7y ago
Thanks for your feedback. Agree, we are considering open-source OS's as well. We are at an early stage and Chromebooks were fast and cheap solutions to start with. But will take your comment into consideration. We work with the incumbe
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by jibla 7y ago
First, we started with the used ones, but the maintenance of used devices was a disaster. Chromebooks were cheap, fast, virus-free and with bigger screens (More convenient for education) We buy them from 150-180 USD per unit. But this doesn
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by jibla 7y ago
We've started with the used ones, but used devices need maintenance all the time. And the operations became very inefficient. So we switched to the new Chromebooks because they were cheap, fast, virus-free, battery lifetime. Sometimes
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by jibla 7y ago
Thanks for your feedback. We are also thinking about it a lot. What would make us grow faster a nonprofit or a forprofit? We just thought that people would donate only to a nonprofit and were also a bit afraid to switch to for-profit. Don&#
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by jibla 7y ago
Thanks for your feedback. Shrinking content is really what can solve the affordability issue at some point. But still, internet fees are pretty high (according to average income) in many developing countries and also people aren't able
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by jibla 7y ago
GiveInternet.org allows anyone to sponsor monthly Internet fees and laptops for underprivileged high school students from refugee settlements and rural areas. Through monthly recurring donations from up to 700 individuals, we have equipped
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Show HN: 2.5B people can’t afford internet – need your opinion on our solution(giveinternet.org)
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2.5 Bn people can’t afford Internet access. Need your opinion on our solution
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Reasons 4B people are still offline(weforum.org)
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Decentralized Sustainability-Beyond the Tragedy of Commons with SmrtContracts+AI(medium.com)
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by jibla 7y ago
An interesting and inspiring case in Switzerland - http://politicindia.com/news-details.php?newsid=1059 They've introduced a novel banking scheme in which retired care volunteers “deposit” hours worked looking after eld
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by jibla 7y ago
I volunteer to a nonprofit which I've founded myself https://giveinternet.org/ . Since I come from a developing country Georgia (Europe), I have experienced first-hand the transformational power of connectivity in impro
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by jibla 7y ago
Btw recently stumbled upon this article: "Streaming services are seeing a jazz renaissance amongst younger fans" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44813683 Surprising but encouraging ;)