{"id":2393,"date":"2021-08-15T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2021-10-10T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T17:56:43","slug":"2393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;From Digital Trash to Social Gold&#8221; documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From Digital Trash to Social Gold&#8221; documentary is an award winner at the Vegas Movie Awards in the &#8220;Best Inspirational film &#8211; Award of Prestige &#8221; category, August 2021 edition<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"From Digital Waste to Social Gold 257\/2020\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/439997276?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963&amp;h=c3a775a04b\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Covid-19 required students to learn from home but many did not have access to a computer and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, TOP (Technology Of Peace) movement initiated a pilot in Israel:<\/p>\n<p>Companies and individuals are donating computers and additional equipment (monitors, keyboards&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Technical teams from 3 different schools recycled the computers and set up customized Linux distro light enough that old computers with only 1Gb RAM can run it<\/p>\n<p>100s of computers were offered to families and children in need, in exchange for volunteering hours to their community<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Social<\/p>\n<p>The community around the school becomes more active and all pupils are now remotely connected to their schools<\/p>\n<h2>Economy<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cNeedy\u201d people are no longer a burden, they become leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrash\u201d is no longer trash but has value.<\/p>\n<h2>Environment<\/h2>\n<p>There is no need to throw away computers that impact the environment.<\/p>\n<h2>Outcome<\/h2>\n<p>Reducing digital &amp; social gaps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From Digital Trash to Social Gold&#8221; documentary is an award winner at the Vegas Movie Awards in the &#8220;Best Inspirational film &#8211; Award of Prestige &#8221; category, August 2021 edition Covid-19 required students to learn from home but many did not have access to a computer and the Internet. In March 2020, TOP (Technology Of Peace) movement initiated a pilot in Israel: Companies and individuals are donating computers and additional equipment (monitors, keyboards&#8230;) Technical teams from 3 different schools recycled the computers and set up customized Linux distro light enough that old computers with only 1Gb RAM can run it 100s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technologyofpeace.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}