CRT Monitors Given A Second Life In Africa
News Edwin Martins from Computers for Schools Kenya explains how the IT charity is turning donated CRT monitors from UK organisations into televisions.
[October 15, 2007, 16:07]
Photos: Re-use Don't Recycle, Says Computer Aid
News Old CRT monitors (pictured) are a good example of Computer Aid's approach to making the best use of old tech. An organisation the charity works with in Africa, Computers for Schools Kenya, turns unwanted monitors into cheap TVs for the local...
[July 5, 2007, 15:59]
The African E-waste Conundrum
Blog One of the organisations that Computer Aid works with - Computers for Schools Kenya - even makes use of defunct CRT monitors by turning them into TVs. Coincidentally, I just received an invite from HP asking me to attend a press conference on the...
[September 5, 2007, 17:41]
Donated PCs Become African Multimedia Centres
News The issue of what to do with the growing mountain of discarded CRT monitors is one of the major environmental challenges facing an IT industry that is struggling to improve its green credentials. These CRT TVs are then sold locally to add to the...
[September 14, 2007, 16:48]
Apple Is Not Green Enough, Says Campaigner
News We have also completely eliminated CRT monitors, which contain lead, from our product line. Tony Roberts, chief executive of UK IT refurbishment charity Computer Aid, which regularly sends shipments of re-conditioned PCs to Africa, agreed that a...
[December 6, 2006, 12:38]
Computers To Africa Diary: Day Four
Blog After a tour of the CFSK's new facility on the outskirts of Nairobi - including a demonstration of how they take old CRT monitors and make them into cheap TVs useful to the local population - we headed off to see how some schools are making use of...
[September 12, 2007, 20:28]
