A new life for the computers of the City of Brussels

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The Alderwoman offers this material(equipment) to active associations in the field of the reconditioning. One 1^Er Prize(Lot) of 200 computers was so granted to the asbl Atelier TIC Tanneurs.

The first one(night) for the City

Since 2007, the suppliers of computer hardware do not resume(take back) any more the relegated computers. The roll-out being frequent in the City, the not used computers accumulated and benefited nobody. Thanks to this project the Brusselses can henceforth have quality computers at a reduced price. A project in my opinion essential when we know that numerous Brusselses have no access to the IT tool in their place of residence, explains Karine Lalieux.

2.000 computers are so to be reconditionnès within diverse associations in 2008. These machines will then be allocated on one hand to the South development aid and on the other hand, naturally, to the access to the computing for all the inhabitants of the City of Brussels. This double mission tends to fill the digital, objective gap that settled the Alderwoman Lalieux at the beginning of her mandate(warrant).

200 computers for the asbl Atelier Tic Tanneurs workshop

Computers were the object of a reconditioning. All the present data was so erased. The asbl GIAL makes unannounced controls to the profitable ASBL of the project to make sure that no datum is still stored in the disk.

Accommodated in the popular district of the Marolles, the asbl Atelier TIC Tanneurs is the 1r^E Association to benefit from this new project. 200 computers were so delivered to him(her) in the beginning of August, 2008 through the asbl Gial. A system of leasing of these computers was developed, in association with TRICK Tanners, for the beneficiaries of the CPAS and the unemployment living in the capital. So, these last ones will have a computer in loan for 1 year for the 49-euro sum. If they are avid to acquire this PC in the term of this period, they will just have to add 50 euro. The buyers will also benefit from trainings(formations) given by the ASBL during the year, mention the Alderwoman. The experience(experiment) demonstrates that machines were sometimes abandoned further to their acquisition and it for lack of being able to use them. The trainings(formations) are distributed in the premises of the asbl Brussels.

What enters the conditions of access and directly wish to buy a ready-to-use computer can make him(it) for 99 euro. These machines are Pentium 4 provide with a screen, with a memory(report), with licenses (freeware or Windows) and of a hard disk. An installation at home and a training(formation) are also include in the price(prize).

On Monday, September 22nd, 2008, 20 of these computers had already found buyer and 100 others had already been reserved by the CPAS of Brussels.

A balance sheet(assessment) in 6 months

This 1re agreement reserves these PC to the persons who benefit from the unemployment or from the CPAS. Karine Lalieux however intends to widen the public beneficiaries of this project. A balance sheet(assessment) will be realized in the beginning of March, 2009 to judge the efficiency of these actions(shares).

If these are positively judged, the operation will be widened to the other public Brusselses such as the students, the 3rd age and the single-parent families. At the same time, contacts have already established with the other associations. They will also benefit, and from 2008, from computers of the City.

The objective of this project is thus triple. He(it) is at once environmental because that a new life is given to computers, social by benefiting weakened public and by allowing the stake the work of article 60 within the framework of the reconditioning of computers and, finally, united by means of the actions(shares) towards the South countries, concludes the Alderwoman.

Destruction and recycling

Computers oldest will be as for them directly sent to centres of destruction and recycling approved by the sector(network) Recupel, such as The Powder magazine or CF2m, to respect the standards of environment and management of the electronic waste. {Recupel}