Close the Gap – Circular economy closing the digital gap

Close the Gap is an international social enterprise that aims to bridge the digital divide by offering high-quality, pre-owned computers donated by European and international companies to educational, medical and social projects in developing and emerging countries.

Close the Gap collects decommissioned computers from companies and arranges for other organizations to clean the hard disks and then check and configure the hardware according to the requirements of its end-users. The computers are then shipped to the destination country by sea or air transport, to support educational, medical, entrepreneurial and social projects. All the projects are demand-driven and impact orientedinitiatives.

Since 2003, Close the Gap has already received more than 1,007,000 computers from companies all over the world. Today, Close the Gap has supported more than 6,280 projects all over the world (mainly in Africa), and reached more than 3,220,000 beneficiaries.

See more at: https://www.close-the-gap.org