Our Long Term Goal
Eventually, we would like this to become a reverse marketplace where teachers can place requests for technology and companies can donate their old equipment. For now, we are a long way off that but slowly moving towards the goal of increasing children’s access to technology. In the meantime every Monday another tech company will get an email or call.
How it got started
During the school holidays, Jono (in tech) walked his dog named Takkie through Whangaparāoa College. Takkie would quite often play with another dog called Shire who happened to be owned by another Jono who happened to teach at the college. As normally happens with dogs, they played and the Jono’s talked.
One day, the conversation centred around tech in schools and how students were struggling because their devices could not run the software needed for their course. Jono (in tech) decided to see if he could help and that week he sent emails to three companies. Mark Heine, from EROAD, emailed back offering to help and a week or two later Jono (teacher) had four laptops for his design students. Jono (in tech) thought “That was easy!” and sent more emails...and more laptops came.
Finally, multiple people told Jono (in tech) to set up a website. Aaron Ward from AskNicely came up with a name and here we are....
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