Digital Pessimism We hope to disappoint
The English hardware company Microhard has decided to offer for only $50, a laptop called NewWorld , to the second to fourth world countries.
The idea is to get a connected world, where each inhabitant of the planet has a computer and an Internet connection.
Microhard wish to connect the world with its laptop NewWorld.
The initiative has been well received and supported by the UN, IMF and EDF, among others, as well as numerous NGOs and governments from many countries, notably the United States and the United Kingdom.
In this way, globalization goes a step further, to promote the equality of peoples and achieve equal digital capacities of all.
NewWorld laptops themselves are recyclable devices, very elementary, with a light operating system and basic Internet connection options.
Reactions in the Third World
There has been popular acclaim from the population of many developing countries in the face of massive shipments of devices, particularly in Africa, where the reactions have been very positive and of great appreciation to the West.
There has even been time for humor too, as in the case of a 9-year-old boy from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denis Sassu . From a Spanish hosting center in Kinsasa, he asked the CEO of MicroHard in FaceONU , the social network of the UN for third world countries:
