[TimorLesteStudies] Andrew Mahar - CEO Infoxchange to speak Nov 28 Melb

[Australia-East Timor Association]

** Australia-East Timor Association Independence Day Dinner 2011 **

* Guest speaker: Andrew Mahar, Executive Director of Infoxchange *
'From aid to enterprise ­ a case study from Infoxchange'

Date & time: Monday 28th November, 6 pm for 6:30 pm

Venue: Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville (on the corner
of The Avenue and Walker St), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Melway Map 29 Ref F-12
Near tram stop 16 on the North Coburg (no 19) line.
No parking is permitted in the grounds of the Centre.

Catering: 2 course buffet meal. Please contact AETA if you require a
vegetarian meal.
Drinks from the bar (Not BYO)

Cost: $40 per person (concession $30)

Booking with AETA is essential:
All bookings must by made and paid for by Thursday 24th November.
To request a booking form telephone 9416 2960 or e-mail: aetamel at aetamel.org
so we can send you one.

AETA book stall

* Background on guest speaker & topic:
Andrew Mahar is the founder and driving force behind the social enterprise
Infoxchange Australia which bridges information technology and the needs of
the disadvantaged. The national not-for-profit enterprise has received
Australian and international
awards for its innovative use of communications technology to promote social
justice.   Andrew has also set up the InfoTimor enterprise outside Dili,
providing computers for local schools, orphanages and NGOs, and training to
refurbish old machines.
The enterprise currently employs 25 East Timorese. InfoTimor established the
first publically accessible wireless internet network in East Timor in the
town of Baucau. InfoTimor is a finalist in the 2008 Stockholm Challenge
Award.
See website: www.infoxchange.net.au

* The significance of November 28th:

This event celebrates the unilateral declaration of independence on the 28th
of November 1975. Nine days later the armed forces of the Republic of
Indonesia launched a full scale invasion.

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PO Box 93
FITZROY VIC 3065
T: + 61 3 9416 2960
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