The United Nations refugee agency is backing a pilot project to use a mobile telephone application to help locate and reconnect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Uganda with their families. The project will enable refugees to use mobile telephones to register themselves, search for loved ones, and subsequently be able to reconnect through an anonymous database, using SMS or mobile Internet. The project is jointly implemented by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the non-governmental organization (NGO) known as Refugees United, the telecommunications company Ericsson and the mobile telephone service provider MTN…