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Since July 9th, 2011, when South Sudan decided to secede from larger Sudan to become the newest country in the world, we’ve been waiting for it to be made official on Google Maps. That day is finally here. What I find exciting about this is that a concentrated effort is being made by the World [...]
Starting Dec. 30, the Satellite Sentinel Project — a joint experiment by the U.N.’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme, Harvard University, the Enough Project and Clooney’s posse of Hollywood funders — will hire private satellites to monitor troop movements starting with the oil-rich region of Abyei. The images will be analyzed and made public at www.satsentinel.org [...]
I thought some might enjoy this relic from my 2005 trip to Sudan, Uganda, & Kenya when I was sent to set up solar-powered Internet stations in Southern Sudan. (Yes, I was exhausted from travel the time this picture was taken.) Due to the recent attacks of the LRA near Adjumani, Uganda, I had to [...]
Having just read “America’s South Sudan Conundrum” on the FP Passport blog, I couldn’t keep quiet. Some great questions are asked in this post regarding how “America’s hands are tied” with South Sudan’s upcoming January 2011 Referendum quickly approaching. The general idea of the post is that South Sudan is not ready to stand on [...]
“I think we better abolish the visa regime and I am going to inform my government so that anybody with a South Sudanese or Ugandan travel document can walk into each other’s country and trade freely.” ….that comes from Otafire, Ugandan Minister of Commerce. [Source: Roving Bandit]
[This is part of a series of posts that will extend through the entire year of 2009 twice monthly according to my original post "My pledge to Kiva for 2009". To view all of my Kiva projects, take a moment to check out my Kiva lending page.] In this week’s Kiva Pledge Update I am [...]
[This is part of a series of posts that will extend through the entire year of 2009 twice monthly according to my original post "My pledge to Kiva for 2009". To view all of my Kiva projects, take a moment to check out my Kiva lending page.] In this week’s Kiva Pledge Update I am [...]
[This is part of a series of posts that will extend through the entire year of 2009 twice monthly according to my original post "My pledge to Kiva for 2009". To view all of my Kiva projects, take a moment to check out my Kiva lending page.] In this week’s Kiva Pledge Update I am [...]
I decided to increase 5 Noteworthy Links to 7 Noteworthy Links. I have such a large plethora of links to share that I feel the need to get them out in the open to people who might benefit from them. As always, if you have something to add to next weeks list, please send them [...]
ethicL-Buy and sell things that help humanity–I haven’t bought anything from ethicL yet, but it looks interesting. Hollywood in Juba-Big screen arrives in South Sudan after years of war (from BBC News) Anthony Brewitt: “Basecamp Changed My Design Process” (from 37Signals)–I use Basecamp for all of my .BIZ web projects and swear by it. Baseball [...]
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