Google adds South Sudan on maps

About South Sudan---
Google the world's number one online search engine has updated its maps to include the newly independent Eastern African nation of South Sudan.  

This latest development comes after a campaign by a South Sudanese journalist, who posted an online petition calling for the new country to be separately included on online maps.

John Tanza Mabusu, a Washington, DC-based South Sudanese journalist working with VOA launched a petition on change.com which saw 1,600 people backing it. 

Mr.Mabusu was still surprised that his home country was missing on all online maps despite attaining independence last July and wining recognition as sovereign state.

"The inclusion of South Sudan will give the people of that new nation pride and a sense of belonging, as citizens of a sovereign nation on the map," asserted Mabusu.

"I'm hoping that now that Google has officially recognised South Sudan on their maps, the other major online mapping services will quickly follow suit."

National Geographic said its print maps and mobile apps had been updated, but its online mapping service was outsourced to the Bing maps website, which uses Microsoft maps.

Bing's map of Sudan does not yet have the Sudanese border marked, although its information on the South's capital city of Juba clearly indicates it is part of South Sudan. Yahoo either does not have the map.

However, It still remains unclear whether Google's amendment to the Sudan map came as a result of the online campaign.

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Development Challenges Facing South Sudan after Independence

South Sudan, the world’s newest country, has some of the worst development indicators on the planet, a senior United Nations official said today, pledging the Organization’s assistance to help the nation achieve its main goals in the aftermath of independence.

Lise Grande, the UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, told an international meeting in Geneva that the UN Country Team will align with the new Government’s priorities in four areas: humanitarian action, stabilization and protection, social progress and justice, and State take-off and accountability.
Ms. Grande told the meeting, organized by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), that the South Sudanese population of an estimated 9 million people is overwhelmingly young, rural, poor and uneducated.
Only about four per cent of arable land in South Sudan – whose territory is close to that of France, Afghanistan or Kenya – is cultivated and just one per cent of households have a bank account, she said.

Half the population does not have access to safe drinking water and it is estimated that only one person in five uses a health-care facility in their lifetime, according to Ms. Grande, who noted also that fewer than 10 per cent of children finish primary school.
“A 15-year-old girl living in South Sudan has a higher chance of dying in childbirth than completing school,” she said.
But Ms. Grande noted that South Sudan has also made substantial progress since 2005 when the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ending the long-running north-south civil war in Sudan.
Multi-party presidential and parliamentary elections were held last year for the first time, a police service, a prison service and a judiciary have been established and more than 6,000 kilometres of road have been upgraded, linking key cities and towns.
She added that primary school enrolment has quadrupled, infection rates from Guinea worm have slumped by more than 90 per cent and the country is now considered polio free.
Ms. Grande stressed that the UN would aim to help the country meet the needs of returnees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), extend State authority into insecure areas, assist in boosting living conditions, fight impunity, and ensure governments are accountable and transparent.
General Gier Chuang Aluong, South Sudan’s Interior Minister, outlined the areas in which his Government is trying to focus its efforts, including building a national police service, ensuring transparent democracy and reintegrating former combatants into regular society.
“Much needs to be accomplished to move from relief to development so that every citizen in South Sudan can live in peace and harmony after decades of war,” he said.
South Sudan became an independent State on 9 July, following a UN-backed referendum in January that was held as part of the CPA. Last week the country became the 193rd Member State of the UN.
For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news
ENDS

South Sudan declared independent in the year 2011

Juba, South Sudan,
July 9th, 2011.
..."We, the democratically elected representatives of the people ... hereby declare Southern Sudan to be an independent and sovereign state," said James Wani Igga, the speaker of the South Sudan Legislative Assembly before Sudan's flag was lowered, the South Sudan flag was raised and the new anthem sung. Kiir took the oath of office and this marked the beginning of a new chapter in South Sudanese history.

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Policing content on social media sites - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

A year ago, after learning of numerous friends who had "lost" content on social media platforms - or had found their accounts "disappeared" for terms of use violations, I started writing a paper on the subject. That paper, Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere, was released in September 2010 during an Internet freedom conference in Budapest hosted by Google. It touched on examples from five American social media companies and the myriad ways in which they control and police content on their platforms. Egypt, Tunisia bring troubles to light Though the paper received positive feedback, its impact was minimal: at the time, there were simply too few prominent examples of account deactivation to catapult the subject into the greater public sphere. Rewind to January 2011. As Tunisians and then Egyptians took to social media platforms to post photos and videos and send messages to their vast online networks, they - and as a result, all of us - have become increasingly aware of the issue. Key players in the movements experienced account deactivations. In November 2010, Facebook took down the "We Are All Khaled Said" page Wael Ghonimwhen had started, because he had used a pseudonym on his own profile. Later, Hossam El-Hamalawy, a journalist, saw his content was removed from Flickr after posting photos of Egyptian security officers that were taken from the Egyptian State Security building when protesters raided the building. In Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Arab world, others have come forward with their own experiences. Recently, I gave a talk on the subject at Berlin's re:publica 11 conference drawing on those and other recent examples. I made the point that the problem lies in what purposes these social media sites - and perhaps others - were meant to serve, and the reality of how they're now used. Facebook, built by a Harvard undergraduate student, was intended as a "yearbook" of sorts - a means by which students could connect with their classmates. Yet the site has scaled up: it moved first to other universities, then high schools, then the world. Its purpose shifted from one of a directory and social gathering site to being a veritable public sphere. It is a place where democratic activists and not-so-democratic players share space. It is a place where so-called enemies - Azeris and Armenians, Israelis and Palestinians, Indians and Pakistanis - befriend one another against the odds. It is a place where conflicting ideas can be fleshed out. A 'quasi-public' sphere And yet, this "public sphere" is in fact a quasi-public sphere, ruled not by governments but by corporations. It is decentralised and privately owned, allowing for whatever corporate standards or terms of use a given company desires to create. Those terms mean that users can find their accounts deactivated for any number of violations - from sending too many messages in a short period of time on Facebook to uploading photos taken by someone else to Flickr. Sometimes the rules make sense, (like when YouTube insists on placing a warning page in front of videos containing graphic violence) and other times they're seemingly arbitrary. Chinese activist and journalist Michael Anti experienced one of the more odd terms of enforcement recently when his Facebook account - which he had been using for several years - was deleted for use of a pseudonym. Anti, whose real name is Jing Zhao, lost his content, along with the thousands of contacts he had collected over the years. While Anti has spoken out against the company's policy, Facebook claims that demanding real names from users makes for a safer environment. Illusions of a borderless world Whereas five years ago Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu spoke of "illusions of a borderless world" with respect to state control of the Internet, today those concerns are compounded by private ownership of our most public of spaces. Of course, this is no new concern: corporate-owned media has long dominated the civic public sphere. In the United States, at least, we've long faced the shift of public spaces to privately-owned ones. Just like online, "private publics" (or the quasi-public sphere) are places where the law does not reach, and corporate guidelines take over. Ultimately, social media sites exist because their users recognize their value as the"public commons". In fact, these sites are the only true global commons, places where anyone from anywhere can gather together, laugh, share ideas, and yes, create political movements. And if those spaces are restricted - blocked by governments, for example - humans suffer. Surely, as we're aware that these spaces are not truly public, we may just leave and take our content elsewhere. But because of the vastness of the network - Facebook, for example, is over 500 million users strong - it just isn't that simple. Still, if companies don't start listening to their users and adapting their policies to fit the needs of the consumers, that may very well be what happens. Jillian York is a writer, blogger, and activist based in Boston. She works at Harvard Law School's Berkman Centre for Internet & Society and is involved with Global Voices Online. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy or Bintou J.B's views.

Policing content on social media sites - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Zip and postal Code for Sudan Cities like Juba, Wau and Yambio.

Does anyone out there know the zip code of Sudan. Every time I try to google for clues I am overwhelmed with the thousands of search results but one thing that continues to drive me mad is the fact that none of the results actually constitutes my desired result.

The only zip code that I have managed to find is that for the northern capital, Khartoum. The rest is to no avail and I don't think I know the person to contact in order to find all the answers to my questions. For this reason I do humbly request you all to help find me the zip codes for all the following locations; Juba, Yambio, Wau and the rest of the cities(state capitals) of South Sudan.

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G10, G8, G5 and so on. We have had and heard enough of whatever that ‘G’ stands for.

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Our global environment is at the verge of destruction and before we know it all the vegetation and forest cover will have disappeared.

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