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Computer Aid: New life for old IT
News Computer Aid International has grown from one volunteer working part time to a slick operation employing 15 paid full-time staff and up to 15 volunteers, in just six years. The organisation recently passed the 40,000 mark, equivalent to over £2m...
[February 10, 2005, 15:25]
Photos: Computer Aid warms Chile with white heat of technology
News Chilean Ambassador Rafael Moreno (right) receives the first of a 7,000-strong consignment of refurbished PCs from Tony Roberts, founder of London-based charity Computer Aid International. Computer Aid has recently celebrated a landmark, having...
[July 4, 2006, 17:05]
Computer Aid cycle challenge
Video In February, a group of 16 cyclists from the UK cycled 400km from Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa, to Lake Victoria, to raise money for the IT charity Computer Aid. Three employees, Will Sturgeon, Andrew Donoghue, and Helen Cooke...
[March 8, 2007, 15:07]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Talkback First, Computer Aid is a registerd charity, not a company, and thus does not have an 'owner'. Local businesses would not benefit if Computer Aid stopped shipments, because the recipient organisations still would not be buying them.
[February 11, 2005, 11:33]
Photos: Computer Aid for Castro's Cuba
News Computer Aid International is inviting IT professionals to participate in its second annual Cycle Challenge and help bridge the digital divide. We are now aiming to eclipse that achievement and provide even more people with the tools to help them...
[May 25, 2007, 18:00]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Talkback They just end up being dumped in African countried that dont have controlled landfills - now how does this benefit the environment or anyone else apart from the owner of this Computer Aid outfit ? Hmmm so what hapened to those 486 machines in...
[February 10, 2005, 17:26]
Computer Aid gives 40,000 PCs a fresh start
News For Computer Aid International, it equals 40,000 PCs that have now been refurbished by the North London-based charity and sent out to schools, community projects and other not-for-profit organisations in 90 countries, mainly in the developing world.
[February 4, 2005, 12:15]
Computer Aid cycle challenge - Day five and six
Blog Tomorrow morning, while the rest of the team take a 7 hour minibus ride back to Nairobi, I am flying back early so I can check out some more Computer Aid projects in the afternoon including a trip to see how a flash memory stick can be used as an...
[February 8, 2007, 10:10]
Photos: Re-use don't recycle, says Computer Aid
News Zambian high commissioner, His Excellency Anderson Chibwa, was on hand to help Computer Aid chief executive Tony Roberts load up the 90,000th refurbished PC for its journey to Africa. Following the long-awaited enforcement of the EU Waste...
[July 5, 2007, 15:59]
Flying doctors bring computer aid to Africa
News IT charity Computer Aid International is working with the African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) to supply rural hospitals in Kenya with PCs, digital cameras and internet connectivity. By allowing doctors in remote medical centres to connect...
[November 27, 2007, 11:01]
News Burst: Computer games aid hyperactive children
News The treatment involves monitoring the brain activity of children and encouraging them to produce more high-frequency brain waves, which coordinate brain activity and aid concentration. The computer games let the scientists work with the children...
[August 25, 2000, 10:06]
Contact Computer Aid
Talkback The best thing to do - providing you are based in the UK -- is to contact Computer Aid at the following address and they can help you arrange removal of the CRTs.http://www.computeraid.org/inddonations.htm
[April 3, 2007, 9:57]
Video highlight: Flying doctors bring computer aid to Africa
Blog This a video I shot in Kenya back in 2007 as part of a trip in cooperation with IT charity Computer Aid to see how the technology the charity collects from UK businesses is used by hospitals and schools in the developing world.
[February 25, 2009, 22:52]
Flying doctors bring computer aid to Africa
Video IT charity Computer Aid International is working with the African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF) to supply rural hospitals in Kenya with PCs, digital cameras and internet connectivity. By allowing doctors in remote medical centres to connect...
[November 27, 2007, 11:01]
Bringing Computer Aid to Cuba
Blog It’s too late to sign-up unfortunately, but I am sure IT charity Computer Aid would bite hands off for more donations for its annual charity cycle ride which kicks off next month. You can find more information about Computer Aid and the Cuba cycle...
[January 28, 2008, 9:54]
Donate your laptops to Computer Aid
Blog At the moment Computer Aid are pushing hard for laptop machines as part of the project for blind teachers .in the region. So if you're company has got an old laptop hanging around - they tend to sit in cupboards and storage areas rather than being...
[March 12, 2007, 11:22]
Kenya IT Computer Aid cycle challenge!
Blog Together with two colleagues from CNET Networks, Will Sturgeon and Helen Cooke, I'm taking part in a cycle challenge on 2 February 2007 to raise money for the IT charity Computer Aid. Computer Aid takes donated PCs and refurbishes them for use in...
[January 25, 2007, 11:05]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Talkback how do we know these PCs are going to schools and why not let the african schools buy from local busiesses not ruin them ever further by importing PCs that are given away or dumped in UK and further destroying to local computer businesses in...
[February 11, 2005, 8:09]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Talkback the 'away' in thrown away just means 'somehwere else' - this is like finding some old medicines you forgot to take, and then giving them to some random homeless person - bloody dangerous - what happens to these machines when they are in economies...
[February 15, 2005, 8:25]
Computer Aid gives 40,000 PCs a fresh start
Talkback Dear Sir I also saw a BBC programme on your company and was impressed by the noble task you have devoted yourself to. In Tanzania, East Africa, we badly need these PCs so that we can accelerate the voyage of our youngsters into the digital world.
[December 27, 2005, 13:24]
