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Dan Simmons reports from the slums of Nairobi at the launch of
a project which could see 150,000 people own their own computer.
The USB flash drive is one of the
most simple, everyday pieces of technology that many people take for granted.
Now it's being eyed as a possible solution to bridging the digital divide, by
two colourful entrepreneurs behind the start-up Keepod.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.
In six weeks, their idea managed to raise more than $40,000 (£23,750) 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.
The test bed for the project is the slums of Nairobi in Kenya.
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