As the oil-rich Southern region of Sudan votes on a referendum for independence, George Clooney, Google, the United Nations, and the Harvard Human Initiative have jointly launched a Satellite Sentinel Project to watch the border area that splits north and south Sudan.
According to a press release, the aim of the Satellite Sentinel Project is to “capture possible threats to civilians, observe the movement of displaced people, detect bombed and razed villages, or note other evidence of pending mass violence.”
Ok I get it…very innovating, but I think that this approach shows some naïveté on the part of the people involved, and frankly it is deeply flawed, and borders on the absurd!