Intelsat Joins Film Star Forest Whitaker In Utopian Peacemaking Pilot
The post Intelsat Joins Film Star Forest Whitaker In Utopian Peacemaking Pilot appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The colossal satellite operator Intelsat has joined forces with actor and humanitarian star Forest … More Whitaker to power an array of peace centers across 3 continents. Shown here is a Russian rocket about to carry an Intelsat satellite into orbit. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Behind the scenes of his sensational filmmaking life, Forest Whitaker is the director of a fascinating pilot project aimed at fostering generations of young peacemakers stretching from Africa to Europe to North America. A decade after the utopian, Oscar-winning film star started constructing a web of peace-building centers on three continents, Intelsat, which has just merged with the Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES, is joining his mission by providing its high-speed internet connections to supercharge these outposts. Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras tells me in an interview that Whitaker “has personally been involved and has done amazing things for thousands and thousands of people around the world.” The geosynchronous satellite giant, he says, is now beaming broadband Web access to an archipelago of outposts the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative has built across Uganda and South Sudan. These tech-powered oases provide courses on the basic building blocks of peace mediation and conflict resolution, along with primers on universal human rights enshrined in the UN Charter and the UN’s own goal of a war-free world in an imagined future. Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras says he initially got hooked up with Forest Whitaker’s utopian peace … More project on the sidelines of the United Nations. The Oscar-winning film star Whitaker is also a UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Getty Images Wajsgras, himself a remarkable philanthropist, says he initially connected with Whitaker, who’s becoming a pole star in the cosmos of independent humanitarian projects,…
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The colossal satellite operator Intelsat has joined forces with actor and humanitarian star Forest … More Whitaker to power an array of peace centers across 3 continents. Shown here is a Russian rocket about to carry an Intelsat satellite into orbit. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Behind the scenes of his sensational filmmaking life, Forest Whitaker is the director of a fascinating pilot project aimed at fostering generations of young peacemakers stretching from Africa to Europe to North America. A decade after the utopian, Oscar-winning film star started constructing a web of peace-building centers on three continents, Intelsat, which has just merged with the Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES, is joining his mission by providing its high-speed internet connections to supercharge these outposts. Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras tells me in an interview that Whitaker “has personally been involved and has done amazing things for thousands and thousands of people around the world.” The geosynchronous satellite giant, he says, is now beaming broadband Web access to an archipelago of outposts the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative has built across Uganda and South Sudan. These tech-powered oases provide courses on the basic building blocks of peace mediation and conflict resolution, along with primers on universal human rights enshrined in the UN Charter and the UN’s own goal of a war-free world in an imagined future. Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras says he initially got hooked up with Forest Whitaker’s utopian peace … More project on the sidelines of the United Nations. The Oscar-winning film star Whitaker is also a UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Getty Images Wajsgras, himself a remarkable philanthropist, says he initially connected with Whitaker, who’s becoming a pole star in the cosmos of independent humanitarian projects,…
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