What am I not seeing here about how to effectively use inexpensive technology? We need two things that go together:

1. We need smart card-type technology that is cheaper than smart cards. We want to enter client information for homeless individuals (with their permission) and give them the cards. They go to various agencies for services--where their client inforamtion is brought up through the smart card connecting with a web-based database. The cheapest cards with photos are about $2-- too expensive.

2. We also need a cheaper way to input information into web-based databases about the homeless than using laptops or desktops that are connected to the Internet with DSL or better (wireless or not). And ideally this cheaper technology could be taken to use in mobile environments, under bridges, in parks, where homeless people are.