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BOSCO Uganda - Rebuilding war-torn northern Uganda with Solar and Battery Systems.
BOSCO - Uganda, Battery Operated Systems for Community Outreach
Since its inception, the BOSCO project is progressing. With a board’s oversight, a professional plan has been engineered.
"The system BOSCO uses cheap, sustainable and energy efficient. A small antenna connects the Gulu archdiocese wireless network to a TV tower that
transmits up to 50 km away. Cheap antennas installed at every camp
connect to energy-efficient computers, made by a company called Inveneo,
that use only 10 percent of the energy of a normal computer. The entire
setup is powered by a 2x2’ solar
cell and a battery with a lifetime of up to 10 years. After
installation, the total cost of operations amounts to $10 every three
month.
Small portable computer clients, together with Voice over IP phones and digital camcorders, linked together with long-range wireless routers/bridges, then up linked to the rest of the world via satellite.
Combined together using Solar powered battery arrays, as there is no existing power grid in Northern Uganda, these computers and communication hubs would be a multi faceted tool, serving as a source of education, an emergency communication link, and a means for these oppressed people to have their voice heard, to get their story out to a world which has not, until now, heard their cry!
This network would provide flexibility and expandability, and is extremely low cost due to the use of 12V DC equipment, which vastly lowers the amount of power usage, and therefore the amount of Solar power needed. It has the ability to reach all current displacement camps as well as grow to reach the villages that the Acholi's will go back once the war is ended, as well as being applicable to similar impoverished areas of the world.
Information and communication is very key in rebuilding peace in northern Uganda - without power grid the process was almost impossible until BOSCO came on time to provide this solution.
BOSCO-Uganda is helping put an end to the isolation cause by war.
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Comment by Joel V. on March 25, 2010 at 2:53pm
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I like the BOSCO project of what your doing
its cool how with solar power grids you could and the BOSCO is energy efficent and cheap
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its a good project and good for the country
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Comment by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on April 12, 2010 at 11:22am
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Thanks, Ssozi-- this looks like a wonderful project!
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