E-what?!

Time for some electronic spring cleaning?

Cybermeetings the way of the future?

Get mobile!

Save a tree today and read your email online

So you have a new cellphone ...

Green light for green living?

Nowadays being green is highly fashionable. Whether you are a treehugging obsessive recycler with aspirations to join Green Peace or occasionally replace your bulbs with energy saving ones, every bit helps.

Even when it comes to computers and electronics, you can make an impact with little effort. We have a few ideas if you feel like going green.

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E-what?!

Electronic waste (e-waste) or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) are the terms used to describe old, end-of-life or discarded appliances using electricity. It includes computers, consumer electronics, etc. which have been disposed of by their original users. Read more ...

Time for some electronic spring cleaning

To save you from your own e-clutter, you can now dump all your unwanted e-waste at IT and we'll get rid of it FOR you. If you want to make an impact without too much effort, you might want to consider getting rid of all those screens dating from the 80's or the printer sounding as if it might be better off in a butchery. No, you don’t need them anymore, and you never will.

Just imagine - one of these days you might be able to use the garage for your car again! Read more ...

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Cybermeetings the way of the future?

Chicken or beef? Just imagine not exposing yourself to dodgy airplane meals and lost luggage anymore? Nowadays there’s really little need to fly thousands of kilometeres for an one hour meeting. More and more businesses are starting to make use of virtual meetings to save money and to lighten their carbon footprint. Read more ...

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Get mobile!

What on earth has the newly unveiled university Mobility Plan to do with information and communications technology? Quite a bit actually. Read more ...

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Save a tree today and read your email online!

Paper is often the major contributor to waste in the office, and it's the easiest to recycle. The university typically consumes between 54 and 60 million sheets of paper per annum. That’s a lot of paper. Read more ...

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So you have a new cellphone ...

But what to do with your old one ... Around 44% of old cellphones are lying around unused. Between 65% and 80% of the material content of a cellphone can be recycled or re-used. Read more ...