{"id":2549,"date":"2013-08-25T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2013-08-25T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:32:08","slug":"uwe-supplies-refurbished-pcs-for-internet-cafes-in-togo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"UWE supplies refurbished PCs for internet caf\u00e9s in Togo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2472.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" alt=\"UWE's surplus office furniture and PCs off to Togo\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The container being loaded for shipping to Togo<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/info.uwe.ac.uk\/news\/UWENews\/news.aspx?id=2626\">Bristol\u2019s University of the West of England (UWE) has announced<\/a> that a shipment of refurbished computers and office furniture has just arrived in Togo after an eight week voyage. The recycled equipment was refurbished by UWE student volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment is now being installed in 2 internet caf\u00e9s in Lom\u00e9, the Togolese capital. Both internet caf\u00e9s will be open to the public, although some time will be set aside each week for special user groups, such as orphanage children, who will receive computer training, and micro-finance clients. In addition, The caf\u00e9s will provide a learning and employment opportunity for local people and aim to be profitable in about a year, earning income from providing internet access, printing and copying services.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Earl, from UWE Volunteering, co-ordinated students from UWE\u2019s Department of Computer Science &amp; Creative Technologies to make the computers ready for use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four volunteers worked as a team to assess the donated equipment, install operating systems and additional software. In total 84 PCs were shipped and the students worked really hard on a complex and time-consuming task,&#8221; said Jo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After refurbishing the computers, our next big task was shipping the PCs from Frenchay campus,&#8221; continued Jo, who worked with UWE facilities manager Richard Bird on packing and loading the computers, printers, desks and chairs into a shipping container.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolwireless.net\/2013\/08\/uwe-supplies-recycled-pcs-for-internet-cafes-in-africa\/\">Reposted from Bristol Wireless<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol\u2019s University of the West of England (UWE) has announced that a shipment of refurbished computers and office furniture has just arrived in Togo after an eight week voyage. The recycled equipment was refurbished by UWE student volunteers. The equipment is now being installed in 2 internet caf\u00e9s in Lom\u00e9, the Togolese capital. Both internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[40,23],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-tech","tag-bristol","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}