By Natasha Lomas
Published: Monday 07 April 2008
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Name
Richard Rothwell
Location
West Midlands
Occupation
Education Consultant
Comment
I have been running a project getting computers and Internet access into socially excluded families for the past year now. (http://tinyurl.com/2qff5g) The barriers to the poorest in the commumity getting Internet access are huge - both financial and practical. The families have poor credit ratings, so find good deals difficult to get. If they do have a computer then it ends up so riddled with spyware that it takes an age to load.
Community projects to get computing and Internet are the way forward, and these work best when based on secure free software solutions.
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