Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 32 | Page 23

UGANDA Managed technology services provider ITEC and Non- Governmental Organisation (NGO) Oasis Uganda are working together to build an IT container classroom at the Oasis Academy located in Musoto Village, Mbale District; one of the poorest communities in Eastern Uganda. ITEC will be setting up a fully furnished IT classroom with PCs, monitors, a server, projector, accessories like keyboards and mice and a good broadband connection. The technology will be made available to the 150 children being educated at the Oasis Academy in Musoto. ZAMBIA Cisco has helped reduced elephant poaching thanks to a project that it has undertaken in Zambia. The company partnered with the World Wildlife Fund to establish real-time connected surveillance around Lake Itezi-Tezhi in Zambia’s Kafue National Park. By setting up four masts and FLIR thermal cameras across the lake, surveillance is connected to a newly built central command centre where movements can be monitored, and poachers can be apprehended before approaching the shore from the lake. Since the technology installation in February 2017, there have been no elephant poaching incidents reported. Before the technology was implemented, the park was seeing reports of one poaching incident every four to five days. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 23