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Costs
The World Price
Computers
have a world price - pretty much the same everywhere. But....exchange
rates do not! The cost of a computer system in the US will be a
much smaller percentage of a US school's working budget than the same
computer system in a developing country
South Africa is where we have our pilot schools, so these figures are examples from there:
| Computer in the US: $600.................... |
Teacher Salary in the rural US $3500/month
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Same computer in South Africa: $600....
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Teacher Salary in rural South Africa $1100/month |
That computer actually costs a school in South Africa 3 times what it costs in the US.
(Click here to see some real-price costs of different types of Wizzy Digital Labs.)
The $12,000 conventional Internet Lab of 20 computers*
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$10,000
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for computers......$500 per terminal for 20 terminals
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| $2000
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for Software.........$100 per terminal for 20 terminals
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| $500/mth
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for a telephone
connection - $.08 a minute, 6hrs a day, 5 days a week. |
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The $1000 Wizzy Digital Lab of 20 computers*
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| $1000
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for computers......$30 per terminal, and $400 for one new basic server
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| $0
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for Software..........$0 per terminal
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| $22/mth
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for a delayed dialup telephone connection - $1.10 per day, 5 days a week. |
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...how can this cost so little?
* based on typical computer prices in South Africa.
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