In Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, about 50 repack computers of the City Hall have been sold at the rate of 42€ to disadvantaged people, beforehand registered with the Municipal Center of Social Action, in order to reduce the digital divide.
The repackage has been made by Ecod’Air, a social insertion company. To complete this offer, an IT workshop is proposed to introduce the beneficiaries to the IT’s basic knowledge and to the use of Internet. This action may fight against the Digital Divide in a city where 85% of households are connected to Internet. Ecod’Air is a repackaging computer hardware company having for peculiarity to employ psychic disabled persons or on insertion people. They repack computers by setting the office software and Internet access, all supervised by professionals’ employees.
For this special project, the HP computers are supplied with a 15 - inch flat screen, a Windows XP Pro explorer system and Microsoft Office 2003. All are under guarantee for 6 months by Ecod’Air, who insures the after-sale services. In November 2006, the project “Helping by Recycling” allowed more than one hundred citizens of Issy-les-Moulineaux to get a repack computer for only 60€.
