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 African presidents, ministers and senior officials met in Botswana's capital to discuss a road map for sustainable development in Africa and the use of the continent's resources. The meeting is preceding next month's U.N. conference on Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro. This summit has been organized by a U.S. based non-governmental organization that works with communities around the world to protect their natural resources read more: http://www.voanews.com/content/african-leaders-discuss-roadmap-to-sustai...

The Army issued a request for information in April to develop a replica of the Internet, called the Army North Exercise Media Web Portal, which will include news sites, Government websites, and social media networks, to experiment with ways to manage the message during a crisis. More at  http://gcn.com/articles/2012/05/22/army-private-internet-social-media-training.aspx

 As the United States readies itself for the upcoming 2012 Hurricane Season, businesses and organizations have developed their business continuity and disaster recovery plans to include mobile security services in the effort of protecting their IT infrastructure.

In an effort to increase spending on infrastructure development on the African continent, the African Union Commission plans to launch a fund to harness the financial resources of its citizens based in the Diaspora. The Diaspora will be encouraged to contribute to the continent's development, while trying to meet the goal of obtaining $60 million over the next 10 years to meet its infrastructure needs read more: http://allafrica.com/stories/201205230149.html

The  International Organization for Migration has been able to airlift over 3,000 returnees from Khartoum to Juba. This is the result of thousands of South Sudanese having to flee Sudan due to the repression.

GPS technology is helping hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, living as hunter gatherers map the land and produce maps that can in turn give them access to the forest. The British group " Rainforest Foundation" trains people to map their land, using GPS devices while marking areas they use for activities such as hunting, fishing and the routes they use to access these areas read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/13/world/africa/rainforest-community-mapp...

 Afgoye corridor is home to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people, the largest concentration of internally displaced people in the world.

From May 15-17, 2012 members of the STAR-TIDES network exhibited at the AFCEA Joint Warfighting Conference at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.

The exposition, with an attendance of over 5,000 people, provided a forum for companies, government entities, and NGOs to exhibit their capabilities and attend discussions by high-ranking members of the security and defense communities.

AIDF is pleased to announce that the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) are partnering with  AIDF 2012.