ISBN: | 978-5-5147-4853-2 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! BOSCO-Uganda is a private, non-profit effort to put wireless internet and VoIP telephony into the internally displaced persons camps of northern Uganda, in cooperation with the Archdiocese of Gulu. BOSCO (standing for Battery Operated Systems for Community Outreach, but named also in honor of the Roman Catholic Saint John Bosco) collaborated with Inveneo to place their low-power PCs powered by solar panels in the Catechist Training Center and the Caritas Office in Gulu, as well as at schools, hospitals, colleges and Churches in the Pabbo, Alero, Lacor, Coope, Jen`Geri, Unyama, and Pagak IDP camps. The organization aims to use ICT to help end the isolation of communities in rural northern Uganda]as well as improve education, economics, human rights documentation, health care and rural development.