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Library of Resources

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary of Terms

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Documents:

  1. Acquiring PCs from Donors
  2. Assembly/Configuration/Burn-In Workflow
  3. Balance Sheet
  4. Business Plan Layout
  5. Boot disks
  6. Cash Flow Article
  7. Cash Flow Projection
  8. Cash is King
  9. CFSK application form
  10. Choosing a location for your technical service centre
  11. Choosing an operating system
  12. Cleaning the computer
  13. Computer Components
  14. Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK)
  15. Configuration- BIOS and drivers
  16. Costs section from SNA research report
  17. Criteria for evaluating education software
  18. DESCO Electronic Recyclers
  19. DFID Tools for Development Handbook
  20. Digital Links
  21. Duty of Care Statement
  22. Educational content
  23. Electricity
  24. Encourage sale of PCs
  25. European Commission/EuropeAid’s Project Cycle Management Handbook
  26. European Union’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive
  27. Freecom order quality checklist
  28. Fundraising
  29. Guidelines for Sourcing PCs
  30. Guideline to the Logical Framework Approach
  31. Hard drive workflow
  32. Helpdesk concepts
  33. Importation and Customs
  34. Including educational content on PCs destined for schools
  35. Income Statement
  36. International Donor Institutions
  37. Inventory management system
  38. IT in the organisation
  39. Letter Template and requirements
  40. Linux terminal server project
  41. List of teacher training courses and descriptive summaries
  42. Maintenance activities
  43. Materials used in the Manufacture of PC
  44. Multiple installations
  45. Network setup
  46. Non-profit status
  47. Open source vs proprietary software
  48. PC Assembly
  49. Pipeline of maintenance activities
  50. Premises and facilities
  51. Prioritising schools
  52. Process of Importation and Customs
  53. Procurement Activities
  54. Quality assurance testing
  55. Rollout and installation
  56. SchoolNet Africa’s research report on Refurbished PCs for African Schools
  57. SchoolNet Namibia Case Study
  58. SchoolNet Namibia – School Agreement
  59. Selling PCs
  60. SchoolNet Value Chain
  61. Shipping Process
  62. Software installation
  63. Sources and Suppliers of PCs
  64. Staffing the workshop
  65. Supply and Shipping Costs
  66. Telecentre Cookbook
  67. Telephone and Internet connections
  68. Testing the PC
  69. Thin client model
  70. Thin client solutions vs. fat (thick) client solutions
  71. Tips for keeping in touch with the market
  72. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model
  73. Transportation in your country
  74. Transport of PCs
  75. Virus protection
  76. Workflow – inventory and testing
  77. Workshop processes
  78. WWF, the Global Environment Network on waste
  79. Xyz company business plan

Powerpoint Presentations:

  1. International Association of Electronics Recyclers (IAER)
  2. Comparison study of Open Source and Proprietary Software in an African Context

Websites:

  1. www.adea.org
  2. www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/
  3. www.bplans.com/dp/
  4. www.bplans.com/fb/article.cfm/2
  5. www.bridges.org
  6. www.businesspartners.co.za
  7. www.businessplanning-4-you.com/cb/businesses/index.html?hop=100248
  8. www.cafonline.org
  9. www.cafsouthernafrica.org/
  10. www.cargo.co.za
  11. www.charitychannel.com
  12. www.citizenbase.org
  13. www.computeraid.org
  14. http://computer.howstuffworks.com
  15. www.computers4africa.org
  16. www.donors.org.za
  17. www.digital-links.org
  18. www.digitalpartnership.org
  19. www.eiae.org
  20. www.exinfm.com/free_spreadsheets.html
  21. www.iaer.org
  22. www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/mmtk/refurbished.shtml
  23. www.itsecurity.com
  24. www.lockdown.co.uk
  25. www.myownbusiness.org/
  26. www.npp.org.za
  27. www.openknowledgenetwork.net
  28. www.planware.org/cashplan.htm
  29. www.reclamere.com
  30. www.recycle.net/computer/index.html
  31. www.resource-alliance.org
  32. www.saeverything.co.za/shipping
  33. www.saifundraising.org.za
  34. www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
  35. www.schoolnetafrica.net
  36. www.seedsforchange.org.uk
  37. www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/bizplan/bizplan.html
  38. www.sustainweb.co.uk/centre.htm
  39. www.tassit.co.uk
  40. www.techsoup.org
  41. www.thefundingsite.co.za
  42. www.thusanang.org.za
  43. www.wingsweb.org
  44. www.worldcomputerexchange.org

Case Studies:

  1. Computers for Schools Canada
  2. Computers for Schools Kenya
  3. Freecom Refurbishment Centre Model
  4. Netday Refurbishment Centre Model
  5. Schoolnet Namibia

Workflow Diagrams:

  1. Assembly/Configuration/Burn-In Workflow
  2. Hard drive workflow
  3. Workflow – inventory and testing

PDF Documents

  1. A call for partners for 1 million PCs for learning
  2. Bringing the benefits of ICT to Africa
  3. Regulation and Internet use in developing countries
  4. Global Policy making for ICTs
  5. OECD Broadband statement
  6. Strengthening developing country participation in ICT decision making
  7. Involving civil society in ICT policy:The World Summit on the Information Society
  8. E-waste project (Gauteng, SA)
  9. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs- Duty of Care
  10. Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
  11. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on Waste
  12. An example of a balance sheet
  13. An example of a projected cash flow statement
  14. DFID Tools for Development
  15. An example of a typical income statement
  16. Guideline to the logical framework approach in project preparation

Excel Spreadsheet

TCO Model for supplying refurbs to Namibian schools

 

 

 

 

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