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RSS charity aidAIDs fight in Africa gets PC boost
News UK IT charity Computer Aid is working with an AIDS charity to provide schools in the developing world with the technology to educate pupils about the spread and prevention of the disease. The charity claims these resources are invaluable to under... [31 Oct 2006]
Hackers steal details of 2,000 charity donors
News UK charity Aid to the Church in Need admitted today that its online security systems had been breached by hackers. Neville Kyrke-Smith, national director at Aid to the Church in Need UK, said the charity is in a "state of shock". [09 Dec 2005]
Help us to bridge the digital divide
News A team of three from CNET Networks UK, publisher of silicon.com, will later this week be travelling to Kenya, marking the culmination of a fundraising drive on behalf of IT industry charity Computer Aid International. [29 Jan 2007]
IT charity employs flash mob tactics
News A flash mob descended on Potters Field, next to City Hall in London, this morning - not to protest against mayor Ken Livingstone's latest policies but to draw attention to Byte Night, an annual sleepout by the IT industry in aid of children's... [06 Sep 2007]
Leader: The positive spin on being hacked
Leader We know it happened, if not how it happened - because the charity Aid to the Church in Need is talking about it, openly. The news that a UK charity has seen its systems breached and 2,800 donors' credit card details stolen is pretty shocking stuff. [12 Dec 2005]
Police investigate charity credit card data hack
News Hackers breached the security of the Aid to the Church in Need website on Sunday 27 November and stole the credit card details, names and addresses of 2,800 charity donors held on the system. Neville Kyrke-Smith, UK national director of Aid to the... [12 Dec 2005]
Computer Aid to treble PC delivery to Rwanda
News The charity is putting its muscle behind the country's efforts to move directly to a knowledge economy, bypassing the industrialisation stage of development. The charity has shipped over 30,000 PCs to 87 developing countries and is currently... [13 May 2004]
Connecting to the world when disaster strikes
Case Study The comms charity also provides longer term centres to co-ordinate aid efforts, particularly in Africa. The charity deployed a communication centre at the office of the National Disaster Management Institute of Mozambique, only 24 hours after they... [11 Jun 2007]
How recycled PCs bridge the digital divide
News For companies in the UK this can mean seeking out a charity such as Computer Aid and ensuring PCs can be put to good use, rather than simply chucking them in a skip to end up in landfill. There the monitors, PCs and servers are handed over to... [12 Feb 2007]
Housing charity using tech to boost efficiency
News Housing charity Shelter has signed a deal with software services company Civica for a new client information management system. The system will record information about people the charity is helping - such as their current situation, actions taken... [09 Feb 2007]
Charity hits back at 'destroy your PC' claims
News A charity which reconditions second hand Pentium computers for use in the Third World has hit out at media coverage this week which encouraged companies to destroy old kit by driving nails through the hard drive of each computer they discard. [18 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up The best option for anybody wondering whether they should chuck their PC in a skip/river/whale's mouth would be to speak to UK charity Computer Aid International which will take PCs that are far from end of life (even if their owners have their... [02 Feb 2007]
Charity offers free WEEE advice
News UK charity Computer Aid International has today launched a free guide for companies and individuals struggling to get to grips with the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive - which will require the recycling and safe disposal... [26 Oct 2004]
Collaboration Solution for Christian Aid Tested in Tsunami Releases Help for Victims in Just 24 Hours
White Paper The charity Christian Aid wanted to improve collaboration and document sharing among its staff worldwide. The 2004 South Asian Tsunami tragedy struck shortly after Christian Aid completed a migration to Microsoft Windows Server 2003, part of... [31 Oct 2006]
Byte Night charity sleep-out hits new highs
News Byte Night has for another year been heralded as a resounding success as leading names working in tech in the UK gathered last Friday to sleep rough in aid of charity NCH. More than 200 executives and others from well-known technology suppliers... [26 Sep 2005]
