A company that has recycled Irish 8,116 computers by wiping, refurbishing and adding open source software to them scooped a major entrepreneurship award last week.

Congratulations to Camara, based in the Digital Hub, which won €80,000 worth of consultancy and mentoring service by clinching the David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Award.

Camara bypassed the social category (read: NGO) to win the overall business award. Cormac Lynch, CEO, was a college colleague of mine, and featured in a Sunday Business Post feature of mine which I’ve blogged about here.

Camara reckons that businesses and individuals chuck out around 1million salvageable computers every year. If you know anyone responsible for the disposal/replacement of computers in any firm, you might jot their name down.