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“We could get rid of our elderly PCs, some of which have outdated program such as Microsoft Word 2003,”
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How on earth is Word 2003 outdated? Ok from the perspective of it has been superseded by 2007, ok I agree, but Word 2003 (and all of Office 2003) is still a very functional and capable office suite.
If the idea posed happened here in Australia I would be one very unhappy person. I can see some benefits for those who embrace technology, but just giving them to people does not assist people in embracing it. For example millions of dollars were spent here in Australia (well one state anyway) dishing out laptops to teachers so they can improve their teaching. These laptops are replaced every 4 years. Now I worked in the education system, and all I saw teachers embrace was the fact that they now have a laptop they can put iTunes on and their kids can play games on at home. Very little benefit came out of it, and if you did a cost/benefit analysis, the rollout would never have happened.