MSI Wind has surely changed lives of better-off people. It has given people the freedom to carry their small notebook anywhere and access internet when on the road. Now the Taiwanese firm is planning to change lives of not-so-well-off people by bring the MSI Wind to rural areas. MSI Notebook is donating notebooks to remote areas in over 10 countries around the world, including Taiwan, to help bridge the digital gap.

Unlike their counterparts living in urban areas who can switch on their computers as soon as they get home, children in many rural areas in Taiwan only have access to computers at Ministry of Education's Digital Opportunity Centers (DOC), because in remote places, information technology resources, like computers, are still an uncommon luxury. Not only do the families living there not have the financial wherewithal to purchase expensive computer equipment, they lack the skills needed to make the most of them. This is what's known as the digital gap.

Starting in October of this year, therefore, MSI Notebook launched its global charity activity "Love with the Wind" in which it is donating 10-inch Wind Netbooks to communities in remote areas of some ten nations around the world. With areas in Taiwan slated to receive the first batch of Wind Netbooks, MSI Notebook is working in cooperation with the MOE to have them delivered to Digital Opportunity Centers in remote areas around Taiwan, thereby, giving kids that don't live in urban areas the same learning opportunities as those that do.

With the assistance of MOE Digital Opportunity Centers, this activity has not only allowed students in remote areas opportunities to use them in their everyday computer studies, they came in handy when their Digital Opportunity Centers were hit by a natural disaster. When Typhoon Sinlaku struck in early September, the Caoling Digital Opportunity Center, situated in Yunlin County's Gukeng Township, was listed as hazardous, because a huge mudslide affecting 30 hectares struck not far from it. Children in the Caolin Digital Opportunity Center and Caolin Elementary School were all evacuated to residences in Caolin where classes continued. Fortunately, they had the MSI Wind Netbook Love Edition which became the most important study and teaching tool in their makeshift classrooms, proving once again that good things do come in small packages. These children were also able to take advantage of their MSI Wind Netbook U100 to continue studies in their temporary classrooms. The uninterruptible noetbook was also a big help for teachers in their teaching and administrative work.

The Luye Digital Opportunity Center, located in Taidong County's Luye Township, is a fun place for kids and senior citizens alike to study computers. After learning how to use the U100, children become tutors for their grandmothers and grandfathers.

MSI Notebook hopes that this activity will serve to infect other potential donors, so that together we can help youngsters in remote areas in Taiwan and around the world, so that they can grow up equipped with the technological knowledge and skills needed in today's world.