First Lady Jessica Doyle joined community representatives and Madison Metropolitan School District teachers, administrators, and board members at PercipEnz Technologies on Tuesday to challenge businesses to establish e-Cycling policies for computers in support of student learning.
e-Cycling is an updated strategy for keeping electronics out of landfills and incinerators where businesses repurpose computers for educational use. Technical partnerships and donations of repurposed computers are benefiting students, staff and administrators while also keeping monitors, hard drives and printers out of our local landfills.
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PercipEnz Technologies, Inc., a Madison-based, developer of enterprise-class clinical and translational research management software joined the MMSD e-cycling team in 2009.
“We’re so excited to have adopted this new policy. It was a truly rewarding experience to deliver our first donation of four computers knowing that those would go into immediate service for the school district,” said Srini Kalluri, PercipEnz President & CEO.
Currently, computers in the MMSD are, on average, nine years old when they are replaced. Most businesses will obsolete their inventory of computer equipment at about four years. “This new policy makes it easy for businesses to contribute to the community as part of their normal business processes,” said Kalluri.
Interested corporate donors can visit www.MadisonCATS.org to learn more and make a pledge to implement e-Cycling policies at their companies.
This is an update to the original story found here.