Sen Digital Clean Up: Raising Awareness and Mobilizing for Responsible Digital Use in Senegal
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Everyone can reduce the ecological and social footprint of their digital usage.
From September 2023 to February 2024, IT4LIFE, along with its partners, organized practical workshops to introduce the approach of responsible digital use.
18 collective workshops in Senegal
The Digital Collage
Data Digital Clean Up
Digital Reuse and Recycling
Objectives
Raise awareness and reduce the environmental footprint of digital usage
Extend the lifespan of equipment and reduce electronic waste
Promote the recycling of obsolete electronic waste
Who is Sen Digital Clean Up aimed at?
Members of associations and organizations
Students from schools and universities
Institutions and public agencies
Entrepreneurs, incubators, and fab labs
The workshops
Digital Mural
Collective intelligence workshop to raise awareness about the environmental impact of digital technology and brainstorm as a group on actions to make digital technology more sustainable.
Duration: 3 hours
6 workshops organized
Data Digital Clean Up
Collective workshop for cleaning data stored on devices and their online storage spaces to extend the lifespan of user equipment and reduce the footprint of storage device usage.
Duration: 2 to 3 hours
6 workshops organized
Digital Reuse and Recycling
Workshop for collecting dormant equipment (defective or unused) with the aim of repairing them or sending them to appropriate recycling channels. This workshop also aims to promote best practices for extending the lifespan of user equipment.
Duration: 2 to 3 hours
6 workshops organized (in partnership with SetTIC)
Digital technology is not immaterial. The growth of the sector and our digital usage (devices, data traffic, electronic waste) have significant environmental consequences.
By raising awareness and promoting good practices of responsible digital behavior, we can reduce and limit the environmental impacts of the digital sector.