Aleutia

Aleutia Computers Ltd.

Type	Privately held, for-profit company
Industry	Computer hardware
Founded	October 2006 (2006-10)
Founder	Michael Rosenberg, Founder
Headquarters	London , UK
Number of locations	1[1]
Area served	Products in 64+ countries[2]
Products	desktop computers, thin clients, nettops, workstations, embedded systems, set-top boxes, servers, computer monitors, and solar panels[2]
Services	eClinic software as a service[3]
Number of employees	4+[4]
Website	aleutia.com

The Aleutia T1 desktop.

Aleutia Computers Ltd.^[5] (pronounced al-oo-sha^[2]) is a privately owned computer manufacturer based in London, United Kingdom. Its product range consists of low-power desktop and server computers. Its products are used in the developing world and as original base designs for externally branded products.^[2] Its computers have been purchased by Unicef, Tesco, Schlumberger, Pret a Manger, Virgin Media, BAE Systems, and the National Health Service.^[2] All computers come with the option to ship a version of Ubuntu or Linux Mint, alongside the mainstream choice of Microsoft Windows.^[6]

History

Aleutia was founded in London by Michael Rosenberg in October 2006,^[7] motivated by the unreliability, inefficiency, and expense of the Hewlett-Packard PCs in the internet cafe he had set up in Takoradi, Ghana in the summer of 2006.^[8][9]

Its first product was the E1, which was introduced for public sale in October 2007, was a fanless, low-power computer targeting the need for energy efficient computers in Africa.^[10] This was followed by the E2 in 2008 whose YouTube video attracted 2.3M views.^[11]

In 2015, at Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco, Aleutia launched its R50 Computer, a fanless Intel Core i5-based system with a unique hybrid enclosure of CNC machined copper and aluminium to maximize heat dissipation and enable computing in the most challenging environments.^[12] Aleutia also launched an off grid kiosk for charging tablets in African classrooms^[13] as well as a prefabricated Solar Classroom that was rolled out across Kenya.^[14]

Aleutia was acquired by Captec, a manufacturer of industrial computers, in June 2019.^[15]

Clients

Aleutia supplies the T1 computers used as point-of-sale servers in every Pret a Manger store in the United Kingdom , United States and Hong Kong running Omnico Hospitality software.^[16]

A project being run by the Uganda Communications Commission to provide ICT to all Ugandan schools has chosen the T1 over the Asus Eee due to the T1's fan-less design.^[17] According to the BBC, this has been rolled out to 137 schools in Uganda.^[18]

The Ethiopia ConnectED project aimed to "build a solar-powered computer learning center that integrated the technology, theories of change, and pedagogical practices from the Hole-in-the-Wall, Education for All, and One Laptop Per Child initiatives."^[19] Aleutia supplied T1 PCs running Edubuntu, along with LED monitors, and solar kits.^[20]

Aleutia was the technology supplier to Varkey Foundation for its DFID-funded programme Making Ghanaian Girls Great, with distance learning enabled at 144 rural schools in rural Ghana.^[21]

Aleutia supplied the hardware and "eClinic" software used on the ground by the "Access to Basic Care" (ABC) programme, which runs 12 healthcare clinics in Oyo State, Nigeria.^[3]

Aleutia's computers were used in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya in 2017 in partnership with Crown Agents.^[22]

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