In May 2018, I supported Ugandan missionary via email who had tried to restore files to his Windows XP PC but lost system files and system had Blue Screen of Death and would not boot.
I helped advise him re how to restore registry and system files so system would boot or data could be recovered and used on another PC.
This was to save years of work as main business software was not executable.
We were looking at writing Nokia S40 mobile applications running on the new X3 that can be used in Africa including Sudan, Liberia, Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa to aid in infrastructure projects for health, education and Christian evangelism.
In 2021, this is replaced by Android One phones that are cut down versions of Android 9 so don't run everything on Android 9. They have less memory, CPU speed and features and use less bandwidth.
In Africa people only have smartphones on low bandwidth 3G mobile internet plus WiFi at internet cafes to download apps and ebooks. Android is very popular. Laptops are too expensive. EBay UK is where they get their smartphones and laptops.
Christine Platt from Orange Presbyterian is new CEO of GRN. She is an electrical engineer from New South Wales. I heard her in July 2012 in Orange Presbyterian. She is using her technical skills in setting up radio transmitters and mobile hard drives and MP3 players with wind-up power supply to deliver the gospel in 6000 languages worldwide including Africa.
Africa is full of crime, theft, impersonation, corruption and fraud. Their banking system and government officers need to be cleaned up. Criminals are always laundering money rather than working hard and using investments to advance their country. Greed is very common. Nearly all countries are run by dictatorships ranging from good to bad. They need transparent governments by putting their parliaments' Hansard online to search and see if they live up to what they promise to make their governments accountable. Nearly every internet money scam originates in Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast). They are full of crooks and gangsters with poor law enforcement and crowded jails, low education and communication, high unemployment, war, flourishing organised criminal underworld and rampant HIV epidemic from poor moral standards and poverty.
Famous US singers support charity USA for Africa - Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Cindy Lauper, Ray Charles, Willy Nelson, Bette Midler, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, etc. in 1985.
This is a truly inspiring song which has raised $100M USD over past 33 years (1985).
Cape to Cairo by Train - Neil Shaw TV - June 2019 - South Africa, Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt - Chinese railways from Tanzania to Kenya
Plessey acquired AWA in Sydney - wireless communications
SIM COVID-19 briefings including South Africa 13:00-14:36, 1:00:00-, 1:2200-
I met a South African embassy staffer in Canberra in 2010.
South Africa has many mobile phone operators and communications companies.
South Africa is a base for Western IT companies in Africa.
From 2014-2016, in nursing home at Eight Mile Plains Brisbane, I play violin for a South African anglican priest who runs an ecumentical service every fortnight. He is a most generous and encouraging Christian brother who is always ready to help if I am stuck. He is never mean or condescending.
In 15 February 2018, Zuma resigned, a very corrupt ANC president of South Africa for past 9 years. ANC forced him to resign.
African Enterprise theological training of ministers in Africa - George Whitefield College and Pastor Training Course in South Africa - BTh - better lead churches with knowledge rather than using traditions and syncretic theology
UNICEF - teaching youth how to plough using oxen to plant more crops and reduce poverty and crime with ACROSS teachers and DAP mobile audio devices 3/17
USAID for South Sudan 51% need food aid (5.6M), cost is $241M USD in 2019, $43/yr/person
FEWS NET Famine Early Warning Systems Network - open data SHP files (mapping)
South Sudan was formed in the UN in 2011 from the south of Sudan in answer to the persecution of the south by the north's islamic majority. This was an answer to prayer! 200,000 Sudanese have died during this civil war.
After independence South Sudan fell into Civil War in 2013 until 2020 and there are now 2294606 (2.29M) refugees in 31/8/2024 in 5 countries:
country
South Sudan refugees and asylum seekers
percent
Uganda
959257
41.9%
Sudan
662080
28.9%
Ethiopia
430634
18.8%
Kenya
188892
8.2%
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
50164
2.2%
It keeps growing! It went up from 1M to 2M from 2016 to 2018.
So in 2020, the Civil War ended but the refugees stayed in the other countries for the next 4 years till 2024 and did not return due to being too unstable.
It takes decades to recover from a war due to all the infrastructure and jobs being destroyed and it taking about $122Bn USD (Oxfam in 2014 (PDF)) to repair the damage done by a 20 year war. War lasted 8 years so probably 49Bn USD to repair all the damage.
In December 2015, Bishop was looking to form a University by merging Yei Teacher Training College and 5 other church projects.
From 2016, YTTC is now fully affiliated with the University of Juba - basic website (Facebook). University of Juba by May 2020 has an official site: University of Juba.
A colleague Rhys and Rhondda Hall of ACROSS SIM have setup a Radio Program in South Sudan for education, health and evangelism. Rhondda's father Rhys Price was a close friend of my father Preston Walker. They both went to Melbourne Bible Institute in 1938-39.
Rhys is attending a literacy expo and Mobiles for Education symposium in September 2012 in the USA. At the literacy expo, he is speaking on using digital media players for education, mother tongue books and songs for literacy. ACROSS now receives USAID for All Children Reading Project end of 2012 - great news!
In 2013, part of the radio project will close and some staff will be sacked from Faith Line Ministries. Send aid via Western Union to assist Faith Line Ministries to continue by themselves - worthy project.
In 2015-2016 ACROSS is using DAPs in cattle camps as UN lead agency to bring peace in civil war in South Sudan and in Northern Uganda refugee camps. DAPs are used for education, singing, evangelism and peace keeping. The South Sudan civil war is between tribal pasturalists. A colleague Walter is presenting at UNESCO Paris re ACROSS DAP educational work in March 2017. He is also presenting re ACROSS DAP ministry at Mobile Education conferences in Netherlands in March-April 2017. ACROSS DAP are teaching literacy in the mother tongue via materials from SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics).
From 2021, Rhys and Rhondda Hall are working remotely for ACROSS Uganda and South Sudan from Castlemaine Victoria Australia due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. They are publishing South Sudanese hymnbooks, church training books and Christian biographies via ACROSS publisher in Africa region and other publishers on Amazon for non-African regions.