This workshop is organized jointly by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Secretariat of the Basel Convention, through the Basel Convention Regional Center for Central America and Mexico (BCRC-CAM), in cooperation with the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment (PACE). This training session on e-waste management will promote the environmentally sound handling of used and end-of-life electronic equipment through the PACE guidelines on environmentally sound testing, refurbishment and repair of used computing equipment and on environmentally sound material recovery and recycling of end-of-life computing equipment, as well as through the ITU-T Recommendations and its Toolkit on Environmental Sustainability for the ICT Sector.  

dates: 19-21 March 2013   location: San Salvador, El Salvador   contact: Karina Flores de Castro   e-mail: kflores@sica.int   www: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/climatechange/201303/Pages/default.aspx