Tagged: Camara & News
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Lord Mayor runs Camara’s 10K to support digital literacy in Irish schools News
24.05.2012 If you’re reasonably fit and looking for something healthy to do on what promises to be a sunny Saturday, you could join Lord Mayor of Dublin, Andrew Montague, who will be...Tags: Camara, -
Spring clean your tech - how to dump your digital junk News
20.03.2012 It's the spring equinox, the time when tech users' thoughts may turn to spring cleaning their technology in addition to giving the heave ho to old and non-used household items. -
Computer re-use charity launches appeal for used PCs News
02.03.2012 The Camara Education charity has launched an appeal for people to donate a share of the some 250,000 used computers it says people in Ireland throw out each year, so it can...Categories: Recycling Services, Green Tech, Green Computing, Education, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Camara offering gift of computer to African schools for €15 News
08.12.2011 Irish charity Camara is offering Christmas shoppers the chance to send a computer to an African school on behalf of a friend or family member as a gift for €15. -
Abtran donates used LCD screens to help Cork Simon Community News
02.09.2011 Cork-based company Abtran has leveraged the services of fellow Rebel County IT recycling company GreenYourGoods.ie to donate €2,000 worth of used LCD screens, helping Cork Simon...Categories: Sustainability, Recycling Services, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Green Computing, Green, Enterprise, Energy, Consumer Tech, Computers, Green Tech, CIO, Business Intelligence -
Irish charity Camara ships 25,000th refurbished PC News
11.08.2011 Volunteer organisation Camara, which refurbishes computers and then loads them with educational software to help empower students’ education in disadvantaged areas in countries...Categories: Sustainability, Recycling Services, Green Computing, Green, Education, Consumer Tech, Computers, Green Tech -
it@Cork and IBM donate time and tech to Shine Autism Centre News
15.06.2011 Some 80 children and more than 250 families in south Munster are to benefit from a new initiative by it@cork and IBM employees in the region who will donate their time and...Categories: Software & Web Development, Multimedia, Leadership & Management, Hardware, Education, Computers -
Despite Rwanda ban, Camara receives top global award News
03.03.2011 The Global Development Network has placed Camara Rwanda first in the category of ‘Most Innovative Development Project.’ The company was honoured despite Rwanda’s current ban on... -
Affordable computer reuse scheme for Irish schools News
27.01.2011 The Environmental Protection Agency and Camara Education have launched the ‘Camara Ireland’ computer reuse project to help address the computer usage shortfall in Irish schools,...Categories: Sustainability, Internet, Green Computing, Green, Energy, Consumer Tech, Computers, Green Tech -
Camara recycles 20,000th Irish computer for children in Africa News
18.11.2010 Camara, the Irish charity and social enterprise that delivers education through technology to some of the poorest people in the world, has recycled its 20,000th Irish computer. -
Diageo donates €70k worth of computers to education News
28.10.2010 Camara Education has received the first instalment of 1,400 computers donated by Diageo Ireland, which will be taken to disadvantaged schools at home and abroad. -
Global innovations in the classroom News
14.09.2010 Pushing the classroom into the digital age has truly been a global effort. -
Reusing a computer is 20 times better than recycling – UN study News
11.06.2010 Charity Camara says 250,000 computers are recycled, thus destroyed, in Ireland each year, whereas they could be reused.Categories: Green, Green Computing -
Ban on second-hand computers for Africa is ‘anti-poor’ News
21.04.2010 A social entrepreneur whose company, Camara, recycles and refurbishes computers for schools in Africa has hit out at what he claims is an orchestrated campaign to prevent PCs... -
Camara in socially responsible green computing drive News
24.02.2010 With global e-waste growing at about 40 million tons a year, an Irish company that refurbishes old computers and sends them to schools in Ireland and Africa has called on...Categories: Digital Life, Clean Tech -
Minister calls on firms to send old PCs to Africa News
22.05.2009 Minister Michéal Martin TD is urging companies to rethink their recycling options available to them, calling on businesses to consider the reuse of their computers to help...Categories: Business -
Re-using technology to liberate and educate News
07.08.2008 Former investment banker Cormac Lynch (pictured) believes education is key to solving Africa’s problem and has persuaded Irish businesses to donate 7,000 computers for schools...Categories: R&DTags: Camara, -
Organisations send 7,000 PCs to educate and liberate Africa News
28.07.2008 Irish organisations from Government departments to major blue-chip companies such as AIB have sent over 7,000 computers that would have been destroyed to help schools and...Categories: CIO -
Ubuntu Ireland goes for open source success News
16.07.2008 Microsoft Windows remains the standard operating system (OS) for most personal computers throughout the world but advocates for the open source Linux-based OS Ubuntu are pushing...Categories: CIO