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PADER, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the residents of a northern Ugandan village heard about a plan to document their land, they worried it was going to be stolen.
But after photographing the land in Owele and taking coordinates, government officials gave people there something they never had before: pieces of paper proving the land they lived on was theirs.
The lush grasslands of Owele, in Pader district, are regulated by clans, families and tradition, and before then had no formal land titles.
Santa Otyeka, a 73-year-old parish leader, said her new land ownership document stopped her brothers-in-law from taking her land after the death of her husband.
By Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A few weeks into Italy’s first coronavirus lockdown in March last year, Andrea Pestarino started setting a 5.30pm alarm as a reminder it was time to turn off his laptop and go play football with his kids in the garden.
The 42-year-old innovation manager said the trick helped him strike a better work-life balance after his engineering firm’s sudden move to remote work pushed him to spend longer hours glued to the computer screen.
70% of U.S. adults say social media has too much influence
By Matthew Lavietes
NEW YORK, April 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nevada this week paused efforts to pass a bill that would allow technology companies to buy land and form quasi-local governments, following criticism that the proposal was part of a troubling trend of “smart cities” run by tech behemoths.
In January, Governor Steve Sisolak unveiled a bill to create so-called “Innovation Zones” which would let companies impose taxes and create school districts and court systems.
Sisolak pitched the plan, which had not yet formally been introduced in the state’s legislature, as part of his broader economic development scheme to pull the state out of a pandemic-induced recession and create about 200,000 jobs.