News and Noteworthy
Media Coverage
- October 2008 Consumer Electronic Association' VISION magazine aticle
- Summer 2008 Short film about 2008 shipment to Nigeria http://download.yousendit.com/DBE0DFBA4E766682
- September 2008 More Internet Access For Sierra Leone - The World Computer Exchange Aims to Get Sierra Leone's Youth Online
- September 2008 Silobreaker – Group preparing second PC shipment to Sierra Leone
- August 2008 BNET - eCorps Volunteers to Nigeria
- August 2008 All Business eCorps Volunteers to Nigeria
- August 2008 Forbes.com eCorp Volunteers to Nigeria
- August 2008 Nissan Canada Helps to Recycle Computers and Cut Down on Waste
- August 2008 Concord Times Newspaper Next WCE shipment ot Sierra Leone
- March/April 2008 MarthaStewart.com 100 Reasons to Get Rid of It, Reason #40
- March 2008 WBBM News Radio 780 Bernie Tafoya of WBBM reports on a WCE packing event in March.
- March 2008 Desktop Do Good: A New World for Old Computers
- February 2007 Article in Special Libraries Association Illinois Magazine
- March 2007 Treehugger.com Spring Cleaning: "100 Reasons to Get Rid of It"
- November 2007 GLAMOUR Magazine 31 Days of Giving Back
- November 2007 Readers Digest - Resolutions for a Better America
- December 2007 – WhoAreAmericans.com World /Computer Exchange sends 25,000+ used computers to developing countries
- December 2006 –SavingAdvice.com 15 Places To Give Old Computers New Life
- March 2006 Real Simple Donate Your Used Items
- August 2005 Boston Globe - Link to Paper
- August 2005 All African (Self Help) Bazaar Financial Times - Link to Paper
- February 2005 Ghanaian Times
- January 2005 Mention in Readers Digest
- February 2004 International non-profit organization to benefit from Elvis Extravaganza at Mall of America
- August 2003 Article on fund raising for Ecuador shipment(in Spanish)
- August 2003 World Learning Testimony about June site visit
in Guatemala (Word 119 KB) - July 2003 GSA and World Computer Exchange Donate Computers to Connect Schools in Kenya
- April 2003 Christian Science Monitor - Happy endings for cast-off PCs
- April 2003 Real Simple Dispose of Unwanted Stuff on Donation Websites
- February 2003 UN Volunteers Organization Gets Help in Bridging Digital Divide
- January 2003 Article about WCE (in Spanish) in Santa Cruz Prensa (Bolivia)
- January 2003 PC World virtual volunteering
- Word version of January 2003 PC World article
- December 2002 PC WorldWeb Opens World to Digital Volunteers
- November 2002 San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle - WCE shipment to Georgia article
- Word version of November 2002 SF Chronicle article
- Oct 2002 New York Times Finding a Grateful Home For Your Old Computer
- February 2002, San Francisco Chronicle Arrival of Goa Shipment
- February 2002 Arrival of Goa Shipment -
- January 2002 Recycling unwanted computers to needy users in Africa
- December 2001 When computers make their way to rural Nepal 73 KB
- August 2001 Opening of Stockholm regional office from Dagens Nyheter -14KB
- May 2001 Villagers attempt to bridge digital divide 69 KB
- March 2001 World Economic Forum Selects WCE 6 KB
- March 2001 Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal 1 KB
- 2001 Harvard Kennedy School of Government Article on WCE Link
- 2001 Recycling Unwanted Computers To Needy Users in Africa
- Student-Developed Ad from Topics Magazine - 37 KB
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Press Releases
- January 2006 WCE Ottawa Press Release starting - Jan'06 (Word)
- New WCE Stuttgart website (in German)
- August 2003 Shipment from Boston to Kenya
- September 2002 WCE Partnership with President of Georgia
- August 2002 WCE Shipment from Stockholm to Nigeria
- August 2002 Thank You Letter from Uganda partners -
- June 2002 shipment from Boston to Uganda
- June 2002 WCE Shipment from San Francisco to Bangladesh
- November 2002 WCE Shipment from New Haven to India
- December 2001 WCE Shipment from Boston to Goa
- April 2001 WCE Shipment from Boston to Cameroon
Other Materials
- One-page WCE Summary -( regularly updated) in Word
- WCE Promotional Brochure - 133 KB (regularly updated) in Word
