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World Environment Day
Cormac Lynch, CEO invites you to join with the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Mr John Gormley, with regards to the reuse of electronic equipment process in Ireland. This will directly impact all employers and Ireland’s approach to environmental management. The event is at Camara Dublin on the 4th June at 10am sharp, [...]
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Dublin City Council uses Camaras services to help 7600 school children
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…
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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Minister Micheál Martin opens Cork Camara Hub
Minister Micheál Martin has called on Munster businesses to consider reuse of their computers, when looking at recycling options. The Minister was speaking at the launch of the Cork Branch of Camara at the Life Centre, 6 Winters Hill, Sundays Well, Cork.
Minister Micháel Martin expressed his support for the Cork Camara Hub and said “I urge Munster [...]
Camara Award for Recognition of Computers/IT Support to Kenyan Schools
I would like to thank the entire Camara team for their continued support in helping us achieve our common objective-to educate Marginalised people. We recieved an Award from the linux professionals association of Kenya on 27-05-09 in recognition of our services to schools. The function was held at the PAN-AFRIC hotel in Nairobi.
David Morara, Camara [...]
Camara Shipping Out Jackalopes!
The latest release of Camarabuntu brings the best open source technologies together on one platform. We would like to thank all of the volunteers especially Patrick Doherty who helped tweak the Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) to suit the requirements of schools in Africa. Constant improvements, feature additions and extended machine and network support explain why [...]
Training this Sunday
Only 23 days left to the Women’s Mini Marathon!
Join us this and every Sunday, 9:30 at Martello Tower or next Tuesday and every Tuesday at St Stephens Green at 6:30.
Jenny Huston, The Annex, RTE 2's Blog
Join Jenny for the Mini Marathon
By Jenny Huston on April 14, 2009 12:43 PM | No Comments
I go to the free sessions on Tuesday evening. There are walkers and runners so come along and don’t be shy!
The Race to Educate
Join Camara at this years Flora Women’s Mini Marathon 1 June and come [...]
Em-POWER-ment
I will tell you want i want, what i really really want. I want ah, i want ah, i really want “POWER LEADS!!!”. Some of you may know some girls who strived to empower women across the globe. Our vision is to empower African communities through the use of technology to deliver education to some [...]
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