1. The traditional model of networked computing - one PC per user - has some major flaws:
   • It's much too expensive for most of the world to afford
   • It has a very high environmental cost
   • The distributed complexity is difficult to manage
   So, although it has worked for the first billion people on the planet, it cannot be the long-term solution for providing IT to the world.
2. We therefore must find another model, unless we are going to tell two-thirds of the world that they cannot participate in this new digital world we've created.
3. Ndiyo has a model. It's not the only one, nor necessarily the best one, but it does work now using today's technology. It's based on sharing the power of a PC between several users at once. Today's computers are easily capable of supporting multiple users, but in the past there hasn't been a convenient and affordable way to do this. Now there is.
4. We take advantage of a key feature of Linux - that every Linux-based PC supports multiple simultaneous users. To date, this has been under-used, because there hasn't been low-cost hardware to take advantage of it.
5. We have therefore stimulated the creation of suitable low-cost, but high-performance, hardware. We wanted users to have a high-quality computing experience even though it was also a more affordable one!

6. The hardware is an 'ultra-thin-client' - a device which allows an extra display, keyboard and mouse to be connected to the computer via a standard network cable. Our design criteria were rather different from those employed in traditional thin clients.
7. We combine this with Open Source software, which means that there are no software licensing costs associated with adding extra users.
8. Arbitrary numbers of these terminals can be connected to a single PC. For a typical desktop machine, we find somewhere between five and ten users to be a reasonable load.
9. This model brings significant advantages, including ease of administration, substantial cost savings, and lower environmental impact.
10. Trial systems are successfully being used in a variety of organisations around the globe.
11. Ndiyo is a donor-supported non-profit UK organisation working to make this model accessible to the world.
12. We're continually exploring, discussing and experimenting to create ever-improving implementations of this model and to keep our minds open to new and better ones.

Please explore the site to see further information on all of these points, along with pictures, videos, presentations and discussions about our work.