International E-Waste Day

This year, on the occasion of International E-Waste Day, Nit Tekna Logik will organize several activities in Dakar on October 14. This event will be held in partnership with Setem and will take place at the MJFC in Dalifort-Forail. Throughout the day, we will bring together all the stakeholders involved in the e-waste processing chain: neighborhood collectors, also known as […]

Summary of World E-Waste Day 2026

Nit Tekna Logik has been developing the IDEES project (Impact de déchets électroniques sur l’environnement et la santé) for more than three years to raise public awareness about the impact of electronic waste. On this occasion, we planned an ambitious event, which we carried out thanks to the collaboration and support of SETEM. The main objective was to reach a […]

Program of the world e-waste day at MFJC

World E-Waste Day is next week. After several months of preparation, we want to share its programme with you. We would like to highlight several aspects of this day, because we remain faithful to our initial idea: to make this project a transdisciplinary project. That is why it was important to count on the artistic presence of Prince Art, who […]

Microplastics in e-waste

On Wednesday 15 January, we organised a workshop on microplastics with Abdoulaye Sene and Carolina García Cataño. In this workshop, we wanted to tackle the issue of microplastics because they are little known and yet they have a major impact on the environment and health. We ended up talking about a continent of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, i.e. a […]

Techno-colonial map

On 11 December 2024, as the last activity of the year, we organised a workshop on the visualisation of the techno-colonial map. On this occasion, we wanted to introduce the notion of techno-colonialism, specifically linked to the extraction, production and transport of electronic waste. We always kept in mind the objective of creating links between the different stages of colonialism, […]

Panel: Mode éthique et écologique: vers une révolution durable dans l’industrie de la mode

Carolina García, coordinatrice de Nit Tekna Logik, participera en tant que panéliste au panel, “Mode éthique et écologique: vers une révolution durable dans l’industrie de la mode”, par le biais d’une contribution dans laquelle nous expliquerons le contexte de la mode portable électronique, les défis qu’elle pose en matière de réflexion sur le rôle de la technologie et la manière […]

VILLA FLORES de Marina Galimberti

Date Le 25 novembre Heure: à 16h Lieu: Karibu Dans le cadre de projet IDÉES (Impact des déchets électroniques sur l’environnement et la santé), on va commencer un cycle de projetions de films documentaires dédié a l’économie sociale et solidaire. IDÉES en tant que projet transdisciplinaire, un des domaines de travail est le domaine de l’économie sociale et solidaire, domaine […]

La TASSE des IDÉES: Quel est le goût des déchets électroniques?

Date: Mercredi 13 novembre Lieu Karibu (Plage Malibu, Guediawaye) Heure: 16h Ce panel c’est une conversation entre les technologues, les scientifiques et les artistes pour réfléchir sur IDÉES, l’impact des déchets électroniques dans l’environnement dans le métabolisme des êtres vivants et la santé.Le flux de transformation de la matière et de l’énergie génère un réseau métabolique qui relie les déchets […]

Cycle of panels & workshops IDÉES

Raising awareness of the impact of electronic waste is becoming increasingly urgent. In its 2024 edition, the Global E-Waste Monitor predicts that 62 billion tonnes of e-waste will be produced by 2022 and 82 billion tonnes by 2030, of which only about 20% will be recycled. The production of e-waste involves different actors and issues, which we want to address […]