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July 20, 2023
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FAIR Denmark has closed up its workshop. This blog post gives more background on why why decided not to continue FAIR Denmark and what we think needs to change to make similar work succeed in the future.

Context: If you aren't familiar with our work in the past >1 decade, you should try scrolling through our photo galleries.

This blog post starts with a lot of analysis, but …

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May 31, 2023 by Benjamin Balder Bach and Philip Douglass
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We are closing up shop and will look for something else to do in the future.

It's been an amazing journey lasting over 10 years. Perhaps the best way to experience it is in our photo timeline, containing hundreds of photos and descriptions of events.

During the pandemic in 2020, we stopped having income to sustain our costs. We used up our reserves to pay rent for our workshop …

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Jan. 24, 2022
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On January 14th, members of Mzigo Youth Foundation under Mzimba District Youth Office picked up equipment and one week later, a team from tMinds visited and conducted a setup of the new lab.

This setup is individually tailored: To assist Malo Private Secondary School with daily operations of the lab, members of Mzigo Youth Foundation will support its day-to-day operations. In addition to that, and in alignment with the general …

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Jan. 24, 2022 by Benjamin Balder Bach
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I sidste uge hentede medlemmer af den lokale klub Mzigo Youth Foundation under Mzimba District Youth Office 32 computere hos tMinds på Mzuzu University. Og nogle dage senere besøgte et hold fra tMinds det nye it-center på Malo Private Secondary School.

Sammensætningen er individuelt tilpasset: Den lille skole har ikke den fornødne kapacitet til at drive centeret fra dag-til-dag men har stillet lokalerne til rådighed. Medlemmer fra ungdomsklubben står …

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Dec. 11, 2021
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Under pandemien fandt vi nye samarbejder. Gennem 39 online-møder organiserede et hold fra Mzuzu Universitets ICT Department, Datalogisk Institut på Københavns Universitet og FAIR en begivenhed for at skabe nye fællesskaber i Malawi omkring data science: Studerende, forskere og undervisere inden for feltet data science mødtes til en uge med oplæg og øvelser. Det skete også takket være økonomisk støtte fra ACMs KDD-gruppes Community Impact Program. Begivenheden blev navngivet …

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Dec. 11, 2021
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During the pandemic, we found new ways of collaborating. Through 39 online meetings and counting, a team from Mzuzu University’s ICT Department and Copenhagen University’s Computer Science Institute and FAIR organized an event for a new community in Malawi: Students, researchers and lecturers in the field of data science met up in a week-long training and project workshop whereby new relationships were formed. This happened not least with financial support …

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March 23, 2021
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Før, vi siger mere: Alle er opfordrede til at melde sig ind i FAIR, og vi hører fortsat gerne fra virksomheder, der ønsker samarbejde om socialt ansvarlig genbrug og videreformidling af it-udstyr.

Vi har valgt at opsige lejekontrakten til vores værksted, som vi har haft i over 10 år. Værkstedet var ellers bygget forfra for 5 år siden og blevet til et lille mesterværk bygget af frivillige efter mange års …

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March 15, 2021
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Da vi pakkede en skibscontainer i november 2020, var det med henblik på anvendelse som it-værksted. Efter 5 måneders transport ankom containeren på Mzuzu University og er nu opstillet ved ICT Departments bygning på en tom grund. Her vil den blive benyttet til først opbevaring, sidenhen værksted.

Arbejdet finder sted i samarbejde med tMinds, en forening af undervisere, elever og ansatte fra Mzuzu University's Datalogi-institut. Siden 2013 har …

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March 15, 2021
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When FAIR packed a shipping container in Copenhagen in November 2020, it was in order for the container itself to be turned into an ICT workshop. After 5 months in transit, the container arrived at Mzuzu University and has its new home at an empty site exactly next to the ICT Department's buildings. Here, it will firstly be for storage, and soon function as an ICT workshop with the …

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Feb. 18, 2021 by Benjamin Balder Bach
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Hos FAIR synes vi, at alle skal slide deres it-udstyr ned, og at vi sammen skal kræve mere holdbart og reparérbart it-udstyr. Virkeligheden er dog, at it-udstyr ofte bliver i overskud, før det er nedslidt: Det er derfor nødvendigt at have løsninger til genbrug for at mest-muligt udstyr skaber mest-mulig værdi.

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Vi oplever ofte at blive sidestillet med affaldshåndtering, og det vil vi ikke. Dette sker, når virksomheden allerede har …

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