Introducing Camara
Camara Education Limited is a registered Irish Charity (CHY 16922) supported by the Irish Government and by charitable donations.
- A world where even the poorest have access to quality education by means of reusing previous materials and open source software.
- Camara is a volunteer organisation dedicated to using technology to deliver education more effectively to disadvantaged communities in Africa and Ireland.
What We Plan for the event
- During the SFD event, Camara plans to make her doors open to show how things are done. Actually, Camara operates as a social enterprise and operates in two distinct business lines: ‘Education Delivery’ and ‘Computer Reuse’. The connection between these two, seemingly disparate activities is TECHNOLOGY. We take in used computers from Irish companies and individuals, wipe their hard drives of data (in line with US Department of Defense standards), refurbish and load them with educational software before setting them up as Learning Centres in schools in Africa and Ireland. We train teachers to use these computers as tools to improve the delivery of education to their students. We produce computer training and educational multimedia materials for use by teachers and children.
. During the event, Camara volunteers are going to showcase some useful open source software that are installed and used for education purposes.
. Camara volunteers will be even available for helping attendees to install and test these tools on their personal computers.
. CDs and other materials will be available for attendees as well as some home made cakes with open source recipe