dont know; depends what is in the contract andy in kairouan tunisia -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com -----------------------------------
________________________________ De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Kelly J. Morris Date: ven. 11/18/2005 12:46 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [DDN] Video: the $100 laptop at WSIS On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 10:19 +0100, Andy Carvin wrote: > Honestly, I think probably not. One thing Negroponte has been > emphasizing is that they only want to work with national governments > willing to purchase laptops in batches of one million or more. That's > one of the ways they intend to keep costs down. I don't know if Italy is > one of the initial countries signed up to partner with them. -andy > Andy - At least theoretically, is there anything preventing a national government from ordering a batch of one million that primarily would be distributed to schools but partially re-sold to NGOs, individuals, etc. at the bulk rate? In essence, a government would be "bundling" the orders from all sources in their country in order to obtain the economies to scale and to keep the price low. KJM -- Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
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