Tagged: Camara & News
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NGOs, IBM and businesses team up to tackle digital literacy News
23.04.2013 A new website that makes basic online tasks easy for new users has been launched through an initiative spearheaded by Business in the Community Ireland and collaboration between... -
Ireland’s digital literacy ‘needs fixing’, Lord David Puttnam says News
18.04.2013 Lord David Puttnam paid a visit to a Camara Education workshop in Chapelizod, Dublin, where he commended the work of the social enterprise in promoting digital literacy both in... -
Camara Education volunteers hit 100,000 hours in refurbishing computers News
27.02.2013 Volunteers with Irish charity Camara Education have worked 100,000 hours preparing computers for disadvantaged communities and their achievement has drawn recognition from... -
Camara calls on Carlow for computer donations News
03.01.2013 With claims that half a million computers are discarded every year in Ireland, and that at least half of these devices are fit for reuse by students learning computer skills,... -
Could you go tech-free for World Computer Literacy Day? News
29.11.2012 Irish-based charity and social enterprise Camara Education is challenging all us technophiles to go without technology for 24 hours to highlight the digital divide that still... -
Camara seeks 1,000 computers in one week News
15.10.2012 Camara Education wants your used computers – 1,000 in one week, to be exact - to refurbish and send off to be used in schools in disadvantaged communities in Africa. The charity... -
Camara CEO calls for more donations of unused computers (video) News
07.09.2012 Camara is a social enterprise which aims to deliver digital literacy skills to disadvantaged communities through the re-use of technology. We spoke to Camara CEO John Fitzsimons... -
Charity Camara brings its model of digital literacy skills and computer reuse to Silicon Valley News
21.08.2012 A charity that over the past seven years has worked to bring digital literacy skills to disadvantaged areas of East Africa, Jamaica and Ireland through a unique blend of...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Internet, Hardware, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Education, Digital Media -
Irish charity Camara in campaign to get 1,000 computer mice for African schools News
30.07.2012 Irish charity and social enterprise Camara, which refurbishes computers to help deliver digital literacy skills in disadvantaged schools, has launched a new campaign called... -
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.