Author Archives: Mark

Dublin City Council uses Camaras services to help 7600 school children

By Mark | Published: February 4, 2010
Dublin City Council Trail Blazes on Reuse of Retired Computers – minimising Co2 emissions and providing education to schools * Camara made 18 Dublin City Council retired IT hardware collections in 2009 and to date in 2010. * Camara have amassed over 350 computers in these collections making [...]
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Part of the service…

By Mark | Published: January 28, 2010
Last week the collections team made its way to Diageo to move some heavy server equipment and the mother of all server cabinets. We wheeled the equipment efficiently through a 100 meters of winding office space to the truck taking on two sets of steps. A lot of collections require sheer brute force and [...]
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What a day

By Mark | Published: April 29, 2009
What a day.  It started out at 8am with a need to get 200 cables for the container going out with the 10,000th computer.   Eoghan delegated it to me when he realised he was swamped by the need to do a 100 other things.  We needed those cables as without them it could potentially [...]
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Stepping up to The Mark

By Mark | Published: January 21, 2009
I am Mark Fox. I started working in Camara in early January. My role is to keep the supply line of second hand computers humming into Camara – and thats where we need the help of all volunteers and Camara advocates.  In 2008 Camara sent 5,022 computers to African schools (a fantastic achievement in its [...]
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ESB ICT Department have a Camara Day

By Mark | Published: January 20, 2009
ICT Group’s Sustainability Champions rounded off 2008 by nominating Monday December 22nd as Camara Day in ICT Group. The idea was to collect as much unused computer and related “stuff” as could be found in all of the Head Office places where ICT group people work, then hand over what was collected to Camara. Camara [...]
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