En el boletín del observatorio ICTD del PNUD, nos
llegan noticias inquietantes respecto a la
disposición final de equipos usados de
computación de los Estados Unidos a países en
desarrollo. Los equipos exportados del centro a
la periferia por negociantes del reciclaje, no
son en muchos casos reutilizables y lo que se
exporta en último término es el problema
ambiental, siendo una manifestación bastante negativa de la brecha digital.
La experiencia africana debe servir de referente
para la de los países latinoamericanos. Como lo
señalaba César Pinto, a propósito del tema, debe
haber un "reacondicionamiento responsable de
computadoras de mediana/alta especificacion para
ser utilizados en escuelas y organizaciones"
ver:
http://funredes.org/mistica/castellano/emec/produccion/memoria13/0066.html

¿Habrá reportes de LAC?

>Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:30:01 -0400
>From: ICTD Newsmaster <ictdnews@undp.org>
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>---- Poor Nations Are Littered With Old PC's, Report Says
>Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to
>developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is
>often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental
>problems in some of the world's poorest places, according to a
>report to be issued today by an environmental organization. The
>report, titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to
>Africa," says that the unusable equipment is being donated or sold
>to developing nations by recycling businesses in the United States
>as a way to dodge the expense of having to recycle it properly.
>While the report, written by the Basel Action Network, based in
>Seattle, focuses on Nigeria, in western Africa, it says the
>situation is similar throughout much of the developing world.
>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=8145&do=gpage
Nearby Tue Oct 25 13:54:34 2005