“Faulty” GPUs, gold, forks, cooking pots or iron-rods ::recycling computers in Accra, Ghana

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During the autumn of 2023, FIBER hosted Part 5 of its Reassemble Lab: Practising Permacomputing, a concept and a nascent community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology that is derived, among others, from permaculture principles. In his second contribution, Cyrus Khalatbari delves into the circular economies and e-waste repair and recycling culture of Ghana, contextualising these practices within permacomputing.

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