[governance] Clinton Admits: Free Trade is Harmful to 3rd World

[Imran Ahmed Shah]

Thank you Jeanette, that is good idea for  
Fruit and vegetables (as they have limited shelf life). 

We may found many reason and methods to preserve them. 

However, surplus quantity of food or thing of daily use can be shared among others.

Similarly, we also have surplus computers and accessories which becomes useless once these are replaced with new versions, new models or when its warranty support is finished. 

So, can someone provide a web portal for kind donations of surplus or old computer related equipments & accessories such as:
network switches, wireless access points, hosting servers, router and firewalls, notebooks, cables, racks, keyboard and mouse, monitors or displays, speakers, projectors and cameras, printer and scanners, Hard Disks and CD Drives etc.  
There should be e-location of virtual warehouse and its service should be on the basis of first come first serve. 

I give an example of mine, I have one CRT monitor, 2 CPUs without HDs, one Big Size Laser Printer, one DSL modem, three sets of Keyboard and mouse, one CD Drive, one CD Writer and Flash Memory 512Kb. 

These items are spare by replacing new equipment and accessories e.g. I changed crt monitor with LCD, CD-Writer with DvD-Writer, HP5Si printer and Acer scanner with Color OfficeJet, similarly 512Kb USB Flash memory is replaced with 4GB USB-2 memory.

The proposed portal will provide everyone like me as a donner to upload specs and quantities of all donate-able items and locations. 

Now, if any needy person, student or school boy of the same region post his demand with his complete address, I will post required items to him as kind donation once I really found him needy.

This portal may have a comprehensive selection mechanism to manage and control. If properly managed, hundred of thousands items would be able to deliver to needy people and students.
This will also help to overcome on digital divide.

The same kind of portal can be used to provide donation of lots (pellets) of spare equipments, accessories and components, old books related to training about Computers, Networks, Programming and graphic designing and only for under developed countries to be distributed free of cost just at the cost of one way shipping expenses. 

Thanks

Imran Ahmed Shah

On Mon Apr 5th, 2010 10:20 PM PKT Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

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>> So here's a practical question: Looking in my own refrigerator just now, I have noticed most of a pack of chillies (cost £0.50) from Morocco, expiry date 22Mar and they have indeed grown some interesting looking mold. But I can't eat chillies quickly enough. So what should I do - not buy them again (smaller packets not available in that shop), 
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>You should freeze them. That way they last for many months without losing their flavour. You defrost them within less than a minute by putting them under hot water.
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>> should public policy seek to protect - Moroccan farmers, or Moroccan consumers - in the event that the UK market for chillies reduces, taking with it the wholesale price.
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>Aren't Moroccan farmers also consumers? I wonder if this is really an either/ or situation. Besides, there might be good reasons to produce and buy food locally even if this implies higher prices. Avoiding long distant transport, might be one, desirable qualities such as taste or organic production methods might be reasons and poverty is certainly also one.
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