Vital skills; serious challenges

Computing skills provide disabled and poor villagers with better job and
economic opportunities. SFD wanted to set up a computer literacy training
program in its community center and a way to provide better information
access for the local community. The solution had to be low-cost and easy to
maintain. Because the area experiences frequent power outages, an uninterruptible
power supply (UPS) was also required. A room full of PCs would need
a large and expensive UPS, which was not affordable. So the solution for SFD
could not consume much electricity. Providing internet access in the rural
areas of the country can also be quite challenging.

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