Dr Ndemo Locally assembled PCs will eventually die and become eWaste Branded foreign PCs will die and become eWaste New mobile phones, TVs, hi-fi, kettles, fridges, A/Cs will all become eWaste Kenya has no alternative but to build end-of-life recycling capacity for eWaste GoK must legislate to ban eWaste dumping GoK must legislate to promote and incentivaise local re-use of EEE GoK must legislate to obligate WEEE recycling at end-of-life GoK must insist that OEMs pay for all aspects of re-use and recycling as in Europe --- On Sun, 8/30/09, bitange@jambo.co.ke <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote: From: bitange@jambo.co.ke <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] My Take: Affordable computers To: benmakai@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 5:33 PM When the Kenya Government slaped a 25% duty on used computers, it was meant to encourage local assembly where we have done pretty well on the learning curve. This policy change is to enable local job creation while taking into consideration on environmental impact from energy zapping used computers. In any case, the cost of a donated computer amounts to between Ksh. 16,000 and 25,000. This is pretty much what it cost assembling a new PC locally. Regards Ndemo. ---------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------- "easy access to the world" _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: benmakai@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/benmakai%40yahoo.com