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Photos: Charity wants your old handsets and cartridges
News Computer Aid International has launched a campaign to boost the number of PCs it is able to refurbish and distribute to the developing world, aiming to recycle its 100,000th unit next year to mark its tenth birthday.
[July 31, 2006, 13:55]
South Africa compares digital divide to apartheid
News Also appearing at the event was Shahid Malik MP, the UK parliamentary undersecretary for international development, who congratulated Computer Aid for distributing around 100,000 PCs to developing countries since 1998.
[April 25, 2008, 11:39]
Microsoft's $3 software plan ignores hardware problem
Blog To date Computer Aid has sent over 88,000 PCs to schools in more than 100 developing countries. I had a mail this morning from Tony Roberts, chief executive of IT charity Computer Aid. I recently took part in a cycle challenge across Kenya with...
[May 1, 2007, 17:50]
Refurbished PCs enlisted to fight AIDS
News In donating the computers through Computer Aid we are not only helping to further the development of education and training in these countries we are also helping to give whole communities a better chance in life".
[October 20, 2006, 12:45]
Cutting down on e-waste and making WEEE work
Blog Computer Aid also highlights how it thinks existing legislation is failing to hold manufacturers to account if their products are found dumped in developing countries. Computer Aid claims it has refurbished more than 130,000 PCs and laptops in it...
[September 24, 2008, 13:45]
Bridge the digital divide with your old PCs
News Computer Aid International is a UK-registered, not-for-profit organisation working to bridge the divide between the developing and the developed world. The site, called www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com, lets people submit details of computing...
[December 20, 2004, 11:05]
Low-power computing: a tech guide review
Reviews This project came about at the suggestion of a charity, Computer Aid International, which collects unwanted PCs from UK businesses, refurbishes them, and then ships them for reuse in education, health and not-for-profit organisations in developing...
[March 26, 2008, 15:19]
Donated PCs become African multimedia centres
News Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK) is an NGO that works with UK charities, such as Computer Aid, to take PCs that are no longer up to the rigours of Vista and other processor-intensive applications and redistribute them to schools and colleges in...
[September 14, 2007, 16:48]
Computers to Africa Diary: Days Two and Three
Blog Unfortunately, despite the teeth-jarring off-road driving that had to be endured thanks to some very serious road works being done to the main Nairobi to Mombassa highway - I can't actually reveal what I was doing down there yet - thanks to a...
[September 11, 2007, 19:12]
Toxic tech threatening developing world
News Computer Aid, a charity that ships used PCs to the developing world, believes that politicians in these countries need to do more to protect their citizens. The problem cannot be solved at a local level as there is no legislation in place," Tony...
[October 26, 2005, 9:45]
Low Power Computing: African results
Blog Our friends at Computer Aid, the charity that supplies refurbished PCs to developing countries, have published their follow-up to the low-power computer testing that ZDNet UK carried out last year. Computer Aid's brief was to take the same kit and...
[April 22, 2009, 10:36]
Kenya IT Computer Aid cycle challenge!
Blog Computer Aid takes donated PCs and refurbishes them for use in developing countries which stops them ending up in landfill and provides much needed educational technology to schools and other organisations.
[January 25, 2007, 11:05]
Charity defends PC recycling after data theft claims
News Responding to recent reports which claimed that criminal gangs in Nigeria were able to find confidential data stored on refurbished PCs sent from the UK, Computer Aid chief executive Tony Roberts insisted that there are safe ways to donate...
[August 22, 2006, 16:00]
$100 laptop project is 'fundamentally flawed'
News But Roberts, who as well as heading up Computer Aid spent time as an academic lecturing on the historical introduction of new technologies into societies, said that the OLPC project was also distracting attention from other worthwhile technology...
[June 20, 2006, 15:05]
Data destruction claims rubbished
News As reported earlier this month, Computer Aid has already refurbished 40,000 PCs and sent them out to schools, community projects and other not-for-profit organisations in 90 countries, mainly in the developing world.
[February 21, 2005, 11:00]
Photos: Computer Aid warms Chile with white heat of technology
News Computer Aid has recently celebrated a landmark, having shipped a total of 70,000 PCs to the developing world. Chilean Ambassador Rafael Moreno (right) receives the first of a 7,000-strong consignment of refurbished PCs from Tony Roberts, founder...
[July 4, 2006, 17:05]
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]
Apple is not green enough, says campaigner
News Tony Roberts, chief executive of UK IT refurbishment charity Computer Aid, which regularly sends shipments of re-conditioned PCs to Africa, agreed that a clear distinction needs to be made between dumping e-waste and donating first-class second...
[December 6, 2006, 12:38]
BCS warns of environmental impact of Vista upgrade
News Computer Aid's Roberts said that environmental enforcement through legislation such as the WEEE directive is vital if the UK is going to catch up with other more environmentally conscious countries. The BCS is advising companies to think about...
[December 7, 2006, 15:34]
Microsoft backs Digital Pipeline to Africa
News Not-for-profit Digital Pipeline acts as an umbrella organisation, bringing together charities that specialise in sending refurbished machines to Africa, such as the UK's Computer Aid, with businesses that are looking to dispose of their old PCs.
[July 25, 2007, 17:34]
