Deployment of free Wi-Fi voice communications to report crime incidents in Botswana

The research explored the current scenario of crime in Botswana, and the current measures employed to help combat it, including usage of crime prevention clusters. Through usage of the quantitative approach, with the aid of questionnaire and interviews, the research found that, there is an increasingly growth of crime rate in Botswana, sustaining the literature findings. The research highlighted the presence of crime prevention clusters, but noted a disconnection between them and the police. The bleak state of communication between the two, and ineffectiveness of current measures, causes the disconnection. Cluster members have to use own limited resources to report crime to the police, and this disadvantages the crime prevention efforts. Ad-hoc networks with emphasizes on Wi-Fi networks were found to be a solution to the communication gap identified. In conclusion, the authors developed a Wi-Fi network facility model to enable cluster members to make voice calls with no costs

"LAND REFORM, IDEOLOGY AND URBAN FOOD SECURITY: ZIMBABWE'S" THIRD CHIMURENGA

This paper is used to comment on the political, legal and ideological struggles between the Zimbabwean State and an alliance comprised of the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) and the British Government over the country's land reform and the theoretical context in which these processes may be situated. A related and equally important objective of the study is to understand how ordinary Zimbabweans construe the impacts of the unfolding dynamics on their livelihoods. The study examines the mechanisms, which both the State and the alliance have used to manipulate land reform in pursuit of their various ideological and political objectives. Finally, it explores how these strategies are being interpreted by the urban poor in the local discourse of food insecurity. These issues are all contextualised in terms of what a former Zimbabwe cabinet minister describes as the "Third Chimurenga", a reference to the country's first two agrarian/liberation struggles or "chimurengas". Copyright (c) 2007 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.