Dublin-based Camara has been named the overall winner of the David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards.
Camara, founded by Cormac Lynch, specialises in recycling technology from Irish companies and delivering sustainable information and communications technologies to the educational sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
It sends out second hand computers to its own technical centres in Africa where they are refurbished by local people before being distributed to schools and colleges in the area. By 2012, it expects to be able to supply 1,000 African schools a year with a fully functional computer lab.
As well as being the overall winner, Camara won the David Manley Emerging Social Entrepreneur category.
Galway-based Arcana Productions won the Emerging Arts Entrepreneur category while Slainte Technologies from Dublin were the winners of the Emerging Business award.
