[trashware] [Fwd: Re: [DDN] e-waste in Ghana]

[paolo palmerini]

cari tutti,
questo breve thread che vi segnalo affronta il problema del trashware in 
seguito ad un recente reportage della bbc, ripreso (con ossequiosa 
abitudine) anche dai nostri "media" (non posso evitare le virgolette). 
forse qualcuno di voi ha voglia di intervenire anche sul quella lista. 
personalmente, pur sposando molti dei principi del trashware, condivido 
le preoccupazioni sollevate da kwame.

sperando che nessuno mi legga e che siate tutti al mare,
vi saluto
p.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [DDN] e-waste in Ghana
Date: 	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:33:03 +0500
From: 	Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@gmail.com>
To: 	The Digital Divide Network discussion group 
<digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net>



Would you be kind to share that what are your suggestions for running a
e-waste programme? Do you have any references to such programs being run in
Africa and what are the results and how can be the data on such be verified?


Best



On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:46 AM, <rengab@edsamail.com.ph> wrote:

> hi Kwame
>
> on the upside, it can be an opportunity for ghana
>
> a lot of organizations have already written how to recycle pc's and other
> ict equipment
>
> the hardest part is to find buyers for the segregated pc parts
>
> china and india are prospects with their new appetites for metals
>
> surplus ict equipment (and other surplus materials) from the developed
> countries are really opportunities for developing countries
>
> in this case for school children
>
> just the right mindset and procedures need to be implemented
>
> reduce-reuse-repair-recycle
>
> regards
>
> rene
> y3k foundation
>
>
>
>
> > Denizens:
> > I brought this issue up several years ago (about 10yrs). I was berated by
> > another person
> > who accused me of crying wolf and rather preventing some poor school
> > children in Africa
> > from receiving free computers donated by "philanthropist". I tried to go
> > to
> > the archives to
> > retrieve that thread but I can only go to 2001.
> >
> > This is a growing menace to African society where under the guise of
> > donating computers,
> > Africans rather end up being a "dump site".
> >
> > we are still watching,
> > stay strong,
> > KDD
> >
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7544003.stm
> >
> > Greenpeace says it is concerned about the electronic waste trade in Ghana
> > which it claims is putting
> > the health of workers at risk. The campaign group says the dismantling of
> > discarded computers on
> > rubbish tips exposes people to smoke and chemicals.
> >
> > Will Ross reports from Accra in Ghana.
> > _______________________________________________



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--------------------------
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