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Uganda Rising
Uganda Rising | Film Synopsis
For two decades, the Acholi people of Northern Uganda have been caught in a civil war between a rebel group whose main objective is inhumane terror and a government whose military response has often increased misery and suffering. Over one and a half million people have been displaced into camps and over 25,000 children have been abducted to be used as soldiers and sex slaves.
And yet through it all, every day across Acholi-land something remarkable happens. Against a backdrop of dismal statistics, miniscule opportunity and unpredictable terror, in a part of Uganda forgotten by the world, children who have never known peace, face the day as if to live this way is normal, as if they still believe in the future. These children are the embodiment of resilience and hope. This film is the story of Uganda, her stolen children, and the fight to be free.
Please visit our official website for more info:
www.ugandarising.com
Length: 138
Rating: 4.90 (16 ratings)
Tags: Uganda Rising Documentary Alison Lawton Jesse Miller Pete McCormack African history Yoweri Museveni Lord's Resistance
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Google Maps in Uganda
Google Tech Talks
December, 5 2007
Colonial rule left many scars on Africa and with tools like Google maps those of the cartographers can now be clearly viewed from cyberspace. With ubiquitous satellite coverage, the random nature of African borders is more evident than ever. Nations initially created on a whim with boundaries that cut through language and ethnic groups are now dealing with legacies dealt to them by cartographers.
What about todays cartographers? How will they help change the face of Africa? There is little chance any boundaries will change, but there is great hope that characteristics about the landscape can change. Wednesdays tech talk tackles that issue as we speak with a creative group who has harnessed the power of Google maps to allow the online community in the US to impact the landscape from afar by planting trees. Users log on, buy a tree, get GPS coordinates for the village in which it will be planted...and soon enough a google maps mash up allows them to follow the progress of their tree as it is cared for by a village community. For their part, village communities are paid month to month, rewarded more and more for every living tree. The incentive system is simple and the motivation to keep the trees alive is enormous.
"We think this is the most exciting proposition for combating Ugandan deforestation to be unveiled in a long time," says Jimmy Kolker, former US Ambassador to Uganda. "With a tool like Google Maps and quality partners on the ground, there is no reason our success in Uganda can't be replicated all over Africa." Come check it out!
Speaker: Mark Moore
Mark spent 10 years in Uganda helping communities 1 village at a time. He is currently a legislative aid assisting Senator Landreau.
Length: 2170
Rating: 5.00 (2 ratings)
Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education
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Chimps - Uganda
March 1996
Debby Cox has a dream. She wants to free a group of prisoners. Incarcerated at Entebbe Zoo, Uganda, there is a colony of orphan chimps. They charge around their wire-mesh cage, desperate for affection. Their big hairy arms will embrace just about anything, including the camera! Six hours drive away, an island sanctuary in Queen Elizabeth National Park allows captive chimps to lead a semi-wild existence. An experiment to introduce a 3 month year old orphan into the group proves successful. Debby and her Zoo Director hope to establish a similar sanctuary at Entebbe. In the Kigali reserve, Harvard University Professor, Richard Wrangham has spent twelve years crouching in the undergrowth, watching wild chimps in their natural environment. We hide in a clearing as two young males eat cautiously in front of the camera. But the chimp population is under threat from in-breeding. Debby wants to solve the problem by gradually introducing her orphan chimps into the gene pool. Significantly, 98% of those chimp genes are exactly the same as our own. If it is a crime to imprison innocent humans, surely the same applies to Debby's 'chimp people'.
Length: 1027
Rating: 4.50 (19 ratings)
Tags: Uganda Africa Chimps zoo prisoners orphans island sanctuary Queen Elizabeth National Park
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Green Computing in Uganda
Rocketboom field correspondent
http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/field.html
Ruud Elmendorp
http://www.videoreporter.nl/
looks into the establishment of Green Computers Uganda
http://www.greencomputers.co.ug/about-us.html
a public-private partnership
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/16/microsoft-un-kicksta.html
to sell refurbished computers and spur computer use
http://allafrica.com/stories/200806231549.html
in Kampala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampala
Uganda
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Uganda.html
Length: 182
Rating: 4.50 (30 ratings)
Tags: computers digital divide green microsoft refurbished uganda unido
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James McAvoy visits Uganda with British Red Cross
Actor James McAvoy who starred in hit movie The Last King of Scotland set in Uganda returned to the country to see how the Red Cross is helping.
Give to the Red Cross to help people in Uganda. Donate now at www.redcross.org.uk/uganda
Length: 292
Rating: 4.90 (242 ratings)
Tags: James McAvoy Uganda British Red Cross The Last King Of Scotland
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