Getting Involved - what the Trusted Computing Project can do for you

There is increasing concern, expressed at European Commission and UK Government levels, about the need to 'Reduce the digital divide and social exclusion'. In plain English it is recognised that there is a need for secure, managed, affordable computing. Like it or not the solution requires the deployment of disruptive technology. Linux and Open Source Software, properly configured, installed and managed is that technology.
 
Clayton M. Christensen addressed the issues of the adoption of disruptive technologies in his paper 'Rules of Innovation'. Click here for a synopsis.
 
For Linux to be succesful on the desktop it must:

Enable less-skilled or less-wealthy customers to do for themselves things that only the wealthy or skilled intermediaries could previously do.

This is the primary objective of the Trusted Computing Project 

Must target customers at the low end of a market who don't need all the functionality of current products.

The business model enable the disruptive innovator to earn attractive returns at discount prices unattractive to the incumbents.

The business model for the Trusted Computing Project is to provide support for large numbers of computers over the Internet with no need for any technical on-site support.