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Camara Galway December Computer Drop-Off
The Camara Galway computer drop-off is taking place on Wednesday 7th of December from 10am to 6pm, so why not drop-off your old PCs, laptops, monitors, keyboards and mice?
The drop-off hub is located on Distillery Rd. in the NUI Galway campus, (travelling towards Moycullen on the Newcastle Rd., turn right into [...]
DIT and Camara Education Partner in Race Against Computer Waste
250,000 computers are scrapped each year in Ireland. Many of these could be reused by disadvantaged communities both at home in Ireland and abroad. DIT has been involved in this activity through its Community Links and Computer Learning in Communities (CLiC) Programmes for the last 15 years. Now, as a [...]
Camara Galway September Computer Drop-Off
The Camara Galway computer drop-off is taking place on Wednesday 7th of September from 10am to 6pm, so why not drop-off your old PCs, laptops, monitors, keyboards and mice?
The drop-off hub is located on Distillery Rd. in the NUI Galway campus, (travelling towards Moycullen on the Newcastle Rd., turn right into NUIG at the AIB [...]
DIT Appoint Camara Education as Computer Reuse Partner
In August, DIT donated 180 computers to Camara Education from sites in Kevin Street, Aungier Steet and Rathmines for reuse with the potential to transform the lives of over 3,500 children in East Africa. Camara Education, a social enterprise and charity, specialises in the re-use of computers to educate children in disadvantaged schools in [...]
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Recycling Computers is Bad for the Environment
Camara is Ireland’s largest computer re-user, sending over 14,000 PCs to Africa to aid education in schools. We have just launched a ‘Computer Recycling is Bad for the Environment’ Campaign to make business and consumers nationwide aware that recycling is not the best practice for used computers.
Over 250,000 computers are disposed of in Ireland every [...]
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The Real Cost to the Planet of Owning a Computer
Prices of computers keep falling – a new desktop computer may only set you back €350. However, I was shocked to learn the finding of a 2004 UN study that 1.8 tons of material is used to manufacture a desktop PC and monitor – 1,500 kg of water, 240kg of fossil fuels and 22kg of [...]
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Drink Lyons Tea and Win 10,000 Euros for Camara
How many cups of tea do any of us drink each winter day at the moment. Keep drinking, but please, if you drink Lyons tea, collect 1 token and post it or go online and use it to enter Camara. Each month, there is a draw, and a charity wins €10,000.
Enter online at www.lyonscharitygiveaway.ie
. Tokens [...]
Countdown to new Edubuntu with long term support for schools!
Ubuntu and Edubuntu will release its next long term support (LTS) edition of the popular Linux distribution in April 2008. This is according to Mark Shuttleworth who was speaking at the Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Oregon yesterday.
The LTS versions of Ubuntu and Edubuntu are supported for a longer time period than the usual six-month [...]
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Camara launch Refurb centre in Lesotho
What a week! couldn’t blog due to the storms in Lesotho knocking the power out every evening which is the only time of the day to send over a 30k modem.
The last time i was in Lesotho, i remembered hearing a story about the coal miners in the South African using a language called [...]
Camara Galway Computer Drop-Off