Com2Tech Digi-Cycle 

We are working with Dunedin organisations wanting to donate their unwanted digital communication devices and any unneeded peripherals, before they head to the e-waste recycling station with them.

We work in the higher levels of the e-waste hierarchy by reusing and repurposing items with students to set up computers for themselves or to give to families/ community groups needing a technology for education/training or working in the community.   

Hardware such as laptops, tablets, workstations, Monitors and other peripherals and chords that connect them.

This gives the Tech students volunteering with us an opportunity to practice their hardware skills getting them up and running again with an appropriate Operating System.  

Our volunteers and students will also be helping families out with education around setting the computer up at home and connecting internet.  If families have not internet the can be set up with a Skinny Jump modem with subsidised internet.  They will also be shown how to keep the computer updated and secure. 

Com2Tech staff and volunteers are also accessable to help with problems that come along and if families with to upgrade any parts themselves in future.

We have been donating free computers to many N-F-P Organisations and Community groups to help them get connected, to create community tech spaces or connect their community members.