Digital Pipeline
Encyclopedia
Digital Pipeline is a United Kingdom
registered charity
which provides access to information and communications technology
(ICT
) in developing countries throughout Africa and other parts of the world.
The organisation facilitates the re-use of ICT equipment through partners who refurbish, redeploy and recycle IT equipment on behalf of businesses and government in the United Kingdom. These partners "work to Digital Pipeline’s Policies and Standards and ensure that legal, data protection
, quality and environmental issues are addressed for Donors and Beneficiaries."
Microsoft Corporation has been extremely influential in building a federation of key partners and stakeholders and is also a Donor of PCs to the Digital Pipeline.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
registered charity
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
which provides access to information and communications technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
(ICT
Information and communication technologies
Information and communications technology or information and communication technology, usually abbreviated as ICT, is often used as an extended synonym for information technology , but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of...
) in developing countries throughout Africa and other parts of the world.
The organisation facilitates the re-use of ICT equipment through partners who refurbish, redeploy and recycle IT equipment on behalf of businesses and government in the United Kingdom. These partners "work to Digital Pipeline’s Policies and Standards and ensure that legal, data protection
Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively...
, quality and environmental issues are addressed for Donors and Beneficiaries."
Microsoft Corporation has been extremely influential in building a federation of key partners and stakeholders and is also a Donor of PCs to the Digital Pipeline.
Digital Pipeline Partners
- Computadores para Educar
- Computer Aid InternationalComputer Aid InternationalComputer Aid International is a not-for-profit organisation active in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development. A registered charity, Computer Aid was founded in 1998 to bridge the digital divide by providing refurbished PCs from the UK to educational and non-profit...
- Computers for African SchoolsComputers for African SchoolsComputers for African Schools is a charity based in the United Kingdom which aims to give children in developing African countries the opportunitiy to gain experience with and understanding of computers and IT...
- Digital Links International
- I.T. Schools Africa for African Schools
- MAXITECH.BIZ Limited
- RDC Ltd
- Remploy e-cycleRemploy e-cycleRemploy e-cycle is a United Kingdom not-for-profit organisation that specialises in the data safe, ethical refurbishment, recycling and disposal of end-of-life IT and telecommunications equipment....
- Worla Aid Comercial