Re: [DDN] intercepting donated computers offered to schools in the u.s.
Dear Laura, Many african countries are known to waive imports duties and other taxes. Nico Ntumba Director Tumbay Consulting Ltd E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laura Breeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One problem with donating computers for overseas use is that shipping, and sometimes import duties, can be prohibitively expensive. Any ideas or workarounds for that problem from the list? cheers, Laura At 11:59 PM -0800 1/20/05, Nic Ntumba wrote: > >It is an excellent idea to mobilize schools and >businesses to donate their old PCs and other IT >equipments to developing countries schools. > >I do know here in London a such ONG which is >very successful to recycle thousands of PCs for >26 african countries schools. > > >Nico Ntumba >Director >Tumbay Consulting Ltd > >Destiny Africa wrote: >Phil, >Thanks for the info.Destiny Africa would be >interested in these Comps for schools here in >Kenya. Looking forward to the donations. > >George > > >Destiny Africa >P.O. Box 30852 - 00100 >Tel. 254 - 20-313588 \ 310286\ 310729 >Nairobi - kenya >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >- >Do you Yahoo!? >The all-new My Yahoo! ñ Get yours free! >___ >DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org >http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >To unsubscribe, send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the >word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > >Nico Ntumba >Director >Tumbay Consulting Limited >Tel:+44-20-7544 1010 >fax:+44-20-7544 1090 >Mobile:+44-7986 462905 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web site : www.tumbay.com > www.tumbay-people.com > >- >Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. >___ >DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org >http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >To unsubscribe, send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the >word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. Nico Ntumba Director Tumbay Consulting Limited Tel:+44-20-7544 1010 fax:+44-20-7544 1090 Mobile:+44-7986 462905 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site : www.tumbay.com www.tumbay-people.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] intercepting donated computers offered to schools in the u.s.
With regard to the community technology centres we are currently developing in the Bahamas and Caribbean, the import duties are completely waived with regard to hardware, software and training supplies. That being said, we occasionally encounter the 7% stamp tax, which can sometimes be waived by the pertinent Minister in charge. The investment authority for the given country is usually an excellent resource for such discussions. Regards Kimberly NetworkBahamas.com and CaribeNetwork.com At 09:45 AM 1/21/2005, Nic Ntumba wrote: Dear Laura, Many african countries are known to waive imports duties and other taxes. Nico Ntumba Director Tumbay Consulting Ltd E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laura Breeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One problem with donating computers for overseas use is that shipping, and sometimes import duties, can be prohibitively expensive. Any ideas or workarounds for that problem from the list? cheers, Laura ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] intercepting donated computers offered to schools in the u.s.
One problem with donating computers for overseas use is that shipping, and sometimes import duties, can be prohibitively expensive. Any ideas or workarounds for that problem from the list? cheers, Laura At 11:59 PM -0800 1/20/05, Nic Ntumba wrote: It is an excellent idea to mobilize schools and businesses to donate their old PCs and other IT equipments to developing countries schools. I do know here in London a such ONG which is very successful to recycle thousands of PCs for 26 african countries schools. Nico Ntumba Director Tumbay Consulting Ltd Destiny Africa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Phil, Thanks for the info.Destiny Africa would be interested in these Comps for schools here in Kenya. Looking forward to the donations. George Destiny Africa P.O. Box 30852 - 00100 Tel. 254 - 20-313588 \ 310286\ 310729 Nairobi - kenya Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! ñ Get yours free! ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. Nico Ntumba Director Tumbay Consulting Limited Tel:+44-20-7544 1010 fax:+44-20-7544 1090 Mobile:+44-7986 462905 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site : www.tumbay.com www.tumbay-people.com - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] intercepting donated computers offered to schools in the u.s.
It is an excellent idea to mobilize schools and businesses to donate their old PCs and other IT equipments to developing countries schools. I do know here in London a such ONG which is very successful to recycle thousands of PCs for 26 african countries schools. Nico Ntumba Director Tumbay Consulting Ltd Destiny Africa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Phil, Thanks for the info.Destiny Africa would be interested in these Comps for schools here in Kenya. Looking forward to the donations. George Destiny Africa P.O. Box 30852 - 00100 Tel. 254 - 20-313588 \ 310286\ 310729 Nairobi - kenya Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! Get yours free! ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. Nico Ntumba Director Tumbay Consulting Limited Tel:+44-20-7544 1010 fax:+44-20-7544 1090 Mobile:+44-7986 462905 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site : www.tumbay.com www.tumbay-people.com - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] intercepting donated computers offered to schools in the u.s.
Phil, Thanks for the info.Destiny Africa would be interested in these Comps for schools here in Kenya. Looking forward to the donations. George Destiny Africa P.O. Box 30852 - 00100 Tel. 254 - 20-313588 \ 310286\ 310729 Nairobi - kenya Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! Get yours free! ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] intercepting donated computers offered to schools in the u.s.
hi everyone - in case you're looking for donated computers for your digital divide project or organization, here in the united states donated computers are often offered to schools. most schools that i know of do not accept donated computers, because it takes more tech support work to support a patchwork of computers that it does to support a uniform series of new computers. if you know a teacher or other person who works at the school, you can intercept these offers of donations by having the offers forwarded to you. hopefully the people making the offers are courteous enough to make such offers via email -- so that they can easily be forwarded. what kinds of donated computers are offered to schools. sometimes they're old, but sometimes they're relatively recently. back in 2001 when i was placing donated computers in children's homes, we i placed some pentium 3 donated computers -- and some blue-and-white G3's macs. these days, early G4 macs are entering the donation stream. i hope this suggestion proves useful to others on this list. for those of you on this list who are overseas and are not able to access a steady stream of donated computers, let's try to find ways of getting some donated computers your way. the best way of doing so is for you to post messages to the list telling about the work you're doing and the kinds of computers (and other technology) that would let you expand your project or organization. some of the small form factor computers entering the donation stream, such as the dell optiplex series, are well suited for shipping overseas. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro (technology access work) http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media) "We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon." -- Dr. Konrad Adenauer ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
