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BOSCO (Battery Operated Systems for Community Outreach) is an effort to bring internet connectivity, VoIP phone service and web 2.0 collaboration training to (now former) Internally Displaced Persons camps in Northern Uganda, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Gulu.

BOSCO Mission and Current Programming

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  • BOSCO's first ever Web 2.0 Training Workshop by Kevin Bailey Jan 26, 2010 10:28 pm
    This week, BOSCO is hosting our first ever Web 2.0 training workshop, on site at our office in the Catechists Training Center, Gulu.  We are hosting 16 young men and women representing 8 of our rural sites (see site locations here).  They are going to be focusing on learning c...
  • by Tom Loughran Jan 5, 2010 12:37 pm
    Please take 30 seconds to vote for BOSCO, a finalist for a $20K Better World Books' Readers Choice Literacy Grant: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/voting.aspx. Vote by Jan 20th! Thanks to Paul Miller at Better World Books for alerting BOSCO to this opportunity!
  • BOSCO doubles its bandwidth! by Kevin Bailey Dec 9, 2009 12:36 am
    With the arrival of the SEACOM fiber optic cable late this year, many cities across Kenya, Uganda and the East African region experienced higher speed Internet connections at reduced costs. The cable landed on the coast, in Mombasa, Kenya and slowly made its way toward Kampala, Uganda....
  • BOSCO in the news by Kevin Bailey Nov 24, 2009 1:09 am
    See a recent article highlighting BOSCO's work in THIS Magazine: http://this.org/blog/2009/11/20/bosco-uganda-ict4d/
  • An update from Pagak by Kevin Bailey Nov 18, 2009 1:34 am
    Click here for an update from Pagak by Chrisopher, director of an agricultural movement in the region and also a BOSCO Web 2.0 training volunteer. As the IDP camps close down, people are reconstructing their lives in their home villages and are once again accessing the land that provid...

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