{"id":17852,"date":"2014-05-12T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T09:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=17852"},"modified":"2014-05-12T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T09:10:32","slug":"keepod-can-a-7-stick-provide-billions-computer-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/keepod-can-a-7-stick-provide-billions-computer-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Keepod: Can a $7 stick provide billions computer access?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The USB flash drive is one of the most simple, everyday pieces of technology that many people take for granted.<\/p>\n
Now it’s being eyed as a possible solution to bridging the digital divide, by two colourful entrepreneurs behind the start-up Keepod.<\/p>\n
Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi aim to combat the lack of access to computers by providing what amounts to an operating-system-on-a-stick.<\/p>\n
In six weeks, their idea managed to raise more than $40,000 (\u00a323,750) on fundraising site Indiegogo, providing the cash to begin a campaign to offer low-cost computing to the two-thirds of the globe’s population that currently has little or no access.<\/p>\n
The test bed for the project is the slums of Nairobi in Kenya.<\/p>\n
The typical income for the half a million people in the city’s Mathare district is about $2 (\u00a31.20) a day.<\/p>\n