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Photos: Computer Aid warms Chile with white heat of technology

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Andrew Donoghue ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 04 Jul 2006 17:05 BST

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Computer Aid has recently celebrated a landmark, having shipped a total of 70,000 PCs to the developing world. The organisation, founded in 1998, refurbishes used PCs, routers, printers and other technology. It then ships them to a network of organisations in the developing world where they are distributed to schools, universities and community groups.

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