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The African E-waste Conundrum
Blog I am off to Kenya next week with UK charity Computer Aid to see some of the projects that PCs donated by UK companies have made possible. I have reported on some of these before such as the Dolphin Pen (USB Key) device which Computer Aid is...
[September 5, 2007, 17:41]
Photos: Old PCs Help Africa's Blind
News Following our participation in Computer Aid's cycle challenge in Kenya, ZDNet UK took some time to check out other projects being run by the organisation, which takes old PCs from businesses and refurbishes them for use in the developing world.
[February 13, 2007, 15:47]
HP Backs African Recycling Research
News The initial phase of the process will kick off with a pilot project in South Africa and investigations into how e-waste is treated in Morocco, Kenya, Tunisia and Senegal. Computers for Schools Kenya, which is based in Nairobi and takes PCs donated...
[September 18, 2007, 17:36]
Do Your Bit To Bridge Africa's Digital Divide
News Next February three employees from CNET Networks UK, publisher of ZDNet UK, are going to be visiting Africa — and cycling 400km across Kenya — to cap off a six-month-long fundraising project to bridge the digital divide.
[October 13, 2006, 17:20]
Extra Capacity Case Study: Safaricom
White Papers As a yearly event to raise money for the continued ecological management and operations of the park, Safaricom, Kenya's leading telecom operator, hosts the Safaricom Marathon. Safaricom, a subsidiary of Vodafone and Kenya's first and leading...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Computers To Africa Diary: Days Two And Three
Blog On Thursday, I am off to meet representatives of the Linux community in Kenya including the brilliantly titles Linux Chicks - an organisation promoting development of open source skills across Africa.
[September 11, 2007, 19:12]
Google Brings Hosted Apps To Africa
News The company claims that Rwanda's educational institutions and government ministries and Kenya's universities are starting to use Google Apps. He would not be drawn on whether the search company is investing in any infrastructure to improve internet...
[March 22, 2007, 12:01]
Microsoft Backs Digital Pipeline To Africa
News Digital Pipeline also announced that services company EDS has donated 30,000 PCs to the organisation, with the first machines due to be shipped to Kenya in July. Not-for-profit Digital Pipeline acts as an umbrella organisation, bringing together...
[July 25, 2007, 17:34]
Refurbished PCs Enlisted To Fight AIDS
News The PCs, donated by CfBT, will go to towns such as Kiberia in Kenya — recognised as the largest slum in Africa and home to some of the most deprived communities in Kenya. UK IT charity Computer Aid is working with an education charity to provide...
[October 20, 2006, 12:45]
OpenOffice.org Goes Swahili
News Swahili is the most commonly spoken African language -- it is the chief trade language of East Africa and is the first language of at least 70 million people living in areas such as Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, and Uganda, according to the team working...
[December 6, 2004, 15:05]
Photos: Re-use Don't Recycle, Says Computer Aid
News An organisation the charity works with in Africa, Computers for Schools Kenya, turns unwanted monitors into cheap TVs for the local population. Zambian high commissioner, His Excellency Anderson Chibwa, was on hand to help Computer Aid chief...
[July 5, 2007, 15:59]
Photos: Charity Wants Your Old Handsets And Cartridges
News The Make IT Happen campaign, launched late last week, will see the charity step up its call for businesses to donate their old desktops and laptops to the organisation where they are wiped of any sensitive data, refurbished and sent to countries...
[July 31, 2006, 13:55]
Bringing Computer Aid To Cuba
Blog Last year’s event was in Kenya (it's shocking to see that much of the violence in that country at the moment is in the areas around Kisumu where our cycle challenge finished) but the venue for this years challenge is Cuba.
[January 28, 2008, 9:54]
Mobile Tech Gets Cautious Praise From Aid Groups
News Projects highlighted in the report include a text-messaging service provided by Oxfam and the Kenyan organisation PeaceNet to alert NGOs to any violent incidents surrounding recent election-related civil unrest in Kenya.
[May 7, 2008, 16:45]
The 2003 E-Learning Readiness Rankings
White Papers Whether it is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare initiative or the African Virtual University (www.avu.org) in Nairobi, Kenya, which works with international universities to educate students across Africa, or any of the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Healthcare Provider Improves Operational Efficiency With Technology Upgrade
White Papers Based in Nairobi, Kenya, AAR Health Services is a healthcare provider with over 15 health centres in East and Central Africa. Due to the increasing mobility of its workforce, AAR Health sought to enable remote access to its network in a controlled...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Kenya IT Computer Aid Cycle Challenge!
Blog The 400Km cycle from Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa, to Lake Victoria, will cross some pretty rough terrain with temperatures over 30 degrees most of the time. Less than two weeks now till I am off to Kenya.
[January 25, 2007, 11:05]
Computer Aid Cycle Challenge - Day Five And Six
Blog We've managed to cycle 400km from Mount Kenya to Lake Victoria - including a trip down and a steep climb out of the Rift Valley - in just six days. Everyone is really happy to have finished and even happier to see the back of the oldest bikes in...
[February 8, 2007, 10:10]
Saving Lives With Mobile Open Source
News Specific projects highlighted in the report included a text-messaging service, provided by Oxfam and the Kenyan organisation PeaceNet, to alert NGOs to any violent incidents surrounding recent election-related civil unrest in Kenya.
[June 6, 2008, 15:25]
Photos: Via Launches Energy-efficient PC
News The charity works with local non-governmental organisations, such as Computers for Schools Kenya, to distribute refurbished machines from UK organisations, like British Airways, to schools and colleges throughout the developing world.
[July 10, 2007, 17:41]
