I was reading news this morning and I have seen one that really considered good news. Seems that General Dynamics Itronix donates rugged laptops to humanitarian expedition fighting malaria in Africa. The computers they donated are GoBook XR-1 which are good notebooks for the given cause if you consider the fact that people on this expedition have to go to places that are not very friendly. See? Rugged notebooks are more than just tech gadgets that are used for military purposes or manly jobs like oil extraction or mining activities. Rugged laptops in these cases save lives and this is always a good thing.
“Malaria kills more African children than any other disease: 3,000 children a day and more than one million people a year,” said Helge Bendl, Zambezi Expedition leader. “The Zambezi Expedition is aimed at publicizing the desperate conditions and raising money to fight the disease. We are thankful to have General Dynamics Itronix support our expedition with the donation of GoBook XR-1 notebooks. We needed notebooks that are both rugged enough for a two-month trip in the heart of Africa and powerful enough so photographers and videographers can use them to document our efforts to help rid the world of malaria”
The expedition will actually deliver medicine to people in need, mosquito nets and informative materials to people in isolated areas in order to help reducing the influence of this disease. In my opinion, getting there with anything but a rugged notebook is impossible because of all the difficult conditions of that area. So, I think that the initiative of General Dynamics Itronix is great and it deserves our congratulations!
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