Somewhere right now, a piece of electronic equipment is keeping someone alive.
Everything we make carries value.
Everything that carries value deserves care.
Everyone who gives that care deserves honour.
The Electronics Lifecycle Care Institute trains, certifies and equips the technicians, quality professionals and circularity managers who keep Africa's critical electronics in service — and who return what can no longer be kept to the cycle of value.
Select a stage. Every device's life is a loop. ELCI certifies the people who keep each stage turning.
The founding truths
Five truths on which ELCI stands
Every civilisation reveals itself in how it treats what is broken.
Read them in the CharterElectronics are a population — every device deserves a passport
Devices are born, work, travel, age and retire among us. Each is owed a Passport ID: one record from first spark to return.
A faulty device is a patient, not a corpse
A fault is not a death. We triage, diagnose, treat and certify. We diagnose before we condemn.
E-value, not e-waste
Nothing made is worthless. To call it waste is not to describe it. It is to forget it.
The carer without care
The equipment that heals, connects, lights, feeds and protects society deserves care — and so do its carers.
From making to keeping
The industrial age mastered making. The age now beginning must master keeping: Lifecycle Care Engineering.
What ELCI delivers
One institute, six mandates
Research
Diagnostics, reliability, remanufacturing, critical materials and circularity measurement.
Research agendaSet practice
Quality gates, test levels and reporting methods aligned to international standards.
Labs and methodsInnovate with industry
Laboratories, pilots and services for operators, utilities, hospitals and producers.
Partner with ELCIInform policy
Evidence for e-value classification, Device Passports and repair-first producer responsibility.
Device PassportCertification at a glance
Ten schools, from the drawing board to the return of metals
- 10
- Schools covering every stage of a device's life
- 65
- Courses, from Awareness to Leader
- 3,050
- Contact hours across the catalogue
- 24
- Months of certificate validity, renewed by evidence
Learn your way
Online, at a centre, or near you
Learn online
52 of 65 courses start online. Theory and exams are online, with practicals at a centre. Try a free taster lesson.
Online learningRegister for training
Book a place for yourself or a group of staff. Choose the course, delivery, centre and start month.
RegistrationBecome an accredited centre
Colleges, repair businesses and service centres can deliver ELCI courses under licence in three tiers.
Centre franchiseEvidence from practice
Local care already works
ELCI's curriculum is drawn from programmes delivered by its operating partner, CME — Centre for Multivendor Electronics.
See the impact framework- 89.8%
- of 3,149 faulty telecom network units returned to service in Kenya
- 76.8%
- of replacement cost avoided in the same programme
- ~2,000 t
- CO2e avoided, estimated
- 15 vs 90
- days to restore industrial controllers locally, at about 80% lower cost
Tools for a repair-first economy
Use the institute's tools
E-Value calculator
Estimate the cost and carbon kept by repairing instead of replacing, and find the right route for a faulty unit.
CalculatorDevice Passport
Look up a device's lifecycle record, or request Passport IDs for your critical equipment.
LookupVerify a certificate
Confirm that a lifecycle carer holds a current ELCI certificate before they touch your equipment.
RegisterBecome a certified lifecycle carer
Registration is open for online and Nairobi cohorts across the ten schools.