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Great idea and mission - kudos to the founders to try to make it a reality. However, there are some challenges : a) Illiteracy and training the users. Although here the unexpected results of the "hole-in-the-wall" experiment of Sugata Mitra - where kids in slums basically taught themselves computers with no supervision [1] may be the model that needs to be followed. b) Access to electricity to run these computers in the poorest regions of the world c) Not every old PC has a USB 2.0 port - so if there was a way to bridge the gap, it would increase the available supply of old PCs.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_t... Edit: spelling and links

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USB 2.0 is from 2000, pretty sure every computer 10 years old or younger would have it. I'll bet most computers that get tossed are less than 10 years old, and that there are plenty of 4 to 10 years old computers around.