James Turing — Building IT Social Enterprises in Rural Africa (Turing Fest 2018)

The Turing Trust has delivered over 4,000 PCs to African schools, supporting 25,000 students to learn vital digital skills. We’ve done this whilst saving 2,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions and training hundreds of local Scots in IT refurbishment. Our product should be relatively simple – providing computers to schools so they can teach students basic digital literacy. However, without the right strategy, delivering our product in an effective manner, both economically but also to ensure long-term growth, is extremely challenging. Developing our social enterprise has seen us make a lot of mistakes and we’ve seen some serious challenges. Yet the considerable opportunities in Africa’s fast growing economies have overwhelmingly helped push us towards success, building and environmentally friendly society and encouraging development both at home in Scotland and in Africa.

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1. Bringing sustainable development to rural African communities by reusing IT James Turing CEO of the Turing Trust
2. Some of our first computers installed in 2010
3. Hot & dusty environments bring several maintenance challenges for IT
4. Aleutia’s PCs – that use a copper heat sink costing £350
7. Maintenance training at Wei ICCES, Ghana
10. Our team in Malawi gaining interest from new schools
11. First adult IT class at Gesibei, Kenya, 2016
12. Off-Grid Challenges ! 93% of sub-Saharan Africans without access to a computer
13. The SolarBerry Solution £5.00
14. 14 The SolarBerry in Choma, July 2018
15. 15 The SolarBerry in Choma, July 2018
16. Get Involved • Donate used PCs • Volunteer in Edinburgh • Connect us with your company www.TuringTrust.co.uk