Donate IT: Closing the Digital Divide through Device Reuse
The global digital transition has fundamentally restructured the requirements for socio-economic participation; while at the same time creating a barrier to access for the digitally disconnected and precipitating an environmental e-waste crisis. Donate IT, a Somerset- based charity as response to the COVID-19 educational emergency, addresses this tension by deploying industrial-grade reverse logistics to enable a regional circular economy for electronics.
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Having matured into a sophisticated regional hub for device reuse, processing thousands of assets, this case study examines how the charity leverages commercial-grade infrastructure to deliver professional refurbishment and redistribution services addressing the specific needs of users and closing the ‘digital divide’. By treating decommissioned hardware not as waste, but as high-value assets, Donate IT proves that a circular economy is achievable through the marriage of professional security standards and robust community logistics.