The Turing Trust

I am always on the lookout for interesting ways to contribute to bettering the world we live in, this takes many forms and being a bit (OK a lot!) of a geek anything science or technology based is always a big draw for me.

If you know anything about computing at all you will recognise the name Alan Turing and its a great testiment to his legacy that The Turing Trust exists, their mission reads “The Turing Trust aims to promote education and training through the use of information technology in sub-Saharan Africa. By reusing equipment we aim to provide training opportunities and skills development both in Africa and the UK whilst reducing waste and supporting a more sustainable and environmentally friendly society.”.

One of their latest innovations is the SolarBerry; its a solar powered classroom in a shipping container that they take to Africa and use for education; the computer equipment is based on the wonderful Raspberry Pi. Im quite a fan of the R-Pi and run my Gridcoin and SolarCoin crypto wallets on them, so I was really pleased to see this use of open source hardware and software for such a wonderful cause.

I was emailing back and forth with the Turing Trust, talking about crypto as they already accept donations in Bitcoin and Litecoin (seriously, how cool is that?!) and I asked if their upcoming Turing Talks will be posted to YouTube, its not clear yet, but if you can be in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 13th June 2017, I think this will be an excellent event to attend, some great quality speakers will be there and its a must for any technology fans out there in STEEM land.

If you cant be in Scotland this June, perhaps you will drop them some Satoshi to help them continue their great work, or checkout their requirements for used computer hardware.

P.S. I have declined payout on this post, and am in no way connected to The Turing Trust.