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  A ray of hope for developing countries - icWales 

  http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/2007/11/23/a-ray-of-hope-for-developing-countries-91466-20148515/

  A COMPANY making next-generation solar technology used to charge mobile phones yesterday announced its first order. Cardiff-based G24 Innovations – G24i – said a deal for its mobile phone chargers, centred ... around its revolutionary solar technology known as Dye Sensitised Thin Film (DST), has been made with a company in Kenya. G24i has a strategy to first target markets in the developing world, where people in remote areas have little access to reliable power sources. Company chairman Bob Hertzberg – a former speaker of the California State Assembly – has formulised the plan because of the massive need for communications technology, coupled with dependable power, in the developing world. G24i’s chargers will be pioneered by Master IT in Kenya. Last month G24i, which is headquartered in Wentloog on the outskirts of the Welsh capital, announced the world’s first production of commercial grade DST solar cells, marking the commercialisation of 18 years of research and development in the tec   [More...] [Less...]

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  BBC NEWS | Technology | '$100 laptop' to sell to public 

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  Computer enthusiasts in the developed world will soon be able to get their hands on the so-called "$100 laptop". The organisation behind the project has launched the "give one, get one" scheme that will ... allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399 (£198). One laptop will be sent to the buyer whilst a child in the developing world will receive the second machine The G1G1 scheme, as it is known, will offer the laptops for just two weeks, starting on the 12 November. "From day one there's been a lot of interest expressed in having some way of people in the developed world participate in the programme," Walter Bender, head of software development at One Laptop per Child (OLPC), told the BBC News website. Price hike The XO laptop has been developed to be used by children and is as low cost, durable and simple to use as possible. It packs several innovations including a sunlight readable display so that it can be used outside. It has no moving parts, can be powered by solar, foo   [More...] [Less...]

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