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Microsoft, HP join U.N. effort to deliver technology to world's poor | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Associated Press | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are two of a handful of companies agreeing to divert 20 percent of their charity donations to the cause of providing developing countries with Internet and telephone service. At a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, both companies announced they had joined the CEO Charter for Digital Development, an initiative by the World Economic Forum being administered by the United Nations. In the case of Microsoft, which donated dlrs 36 million in cash and dlrs 179 million in software last year, funds given to alleviate the so-called digital divide should surpass dlrs 43 million. Hewlett-Packard is expected to add around dlrs 10 million of its philanthropy budget, which was about dlrs 50 million last year. Microsoft, which has contributed to technology programs in Poland, South Africa, Kosovo and elsewhere, decided to join the initiative to take advantage of the "synergies" that come with collaborating on aid projects, said Bruce Brooks, Microsoft's director of community affairs. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 6/17/2002 11:34:34 PM |
| They're starving and dying of easily-cured diseases, but damnit if they won't have a Jornada! |
| #2 By 2332 (165.247.6.132) at 6/18/2002 1:25:01 AM |
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#4 - I think Bill Gates, who is the single most giving person in the history of mankind, and who has given the majority of his charity in order to cure diseases in 3rd world countries, has that angle pretty well covered.
By the way, providing "developing countries with Internet and telephone service" is hardly worthless, and will help them become *developed* countries that can help themselves. |
| #3 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 6/18/2002 11:25:07 AM |
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I know MS gives lots to charities, schools, and disfortuned nations. I know that Bill Gates gives at LEAST $5 billion away in charity every year.
I don't question the motives (even though they might look suspect, giving is giving). All I'm saying is, there are 20 gagillion aid efforts from the west going into Africa and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. We need to coordinate everything. We need food and shelter at basic, we need to help nations with little natural resources get into the Information age and push information as their largest product. All of these things are noble, and pushing technology into a country with no food doesn't help. Pushing food into a country with lots of technology doesn't seem to help either. Someone needs to step up and coordinate all this stuff. |
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