George Clooney Launches Satellite Monitoring System In Sudan -- The Telegraph
A group founded by American actor George Clooney is teaming up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organisations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan.
The aim is to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month
Organisers said on Wednesday that Clooney's Not On Our Watch is funding the start-up phase Satellite Sentinel Project that will collect real-time satellite imagery from Sudan and combine it with field analysis from the Enough Project and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
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My Comment: Kudos to George Clooney. He is putting his money up front.