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Our beautiful child was born on 25th November healthy, happy and all OK. Here she is…

Angel Lorraine Cantoba Healy

So tiny

Rowena, Angel and me

Angel’s Angel Nurses. They don’t muck around here

The proud Tatai (Dad in Tagalog)

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Well I left Byron Bay on January 15th 2009 for what I expected to be 5-6 week trip across Asia working with our youth venture capital fund www.YSEI.org and this year’s 10 fellows. I started out in Malaysia and have been working with projects in Thailand (way up north near the Laos border), Sarawak and the Philippines (north and south).

5 weeks has turned into 5 months and I’m now in the Southern Philippines, on a small island, in the middle of a big typhoon with no power and a flood roaring past the front door. I’ve got two broken ribs from a little surfing mishap on a big wave but otherwise in one piece and rolling. These things happen.

For the last 8 years, Study in Australia (StudyinAustralia.com) has been the premium name for education sites in Australia. It has enjoyed front page rankings the whole period and continues to grow year after year being a magnet for International Students wishing to study in Australia. Well we’re now doing the same with StudyinNewZealand.com - our easy to remember, top level NZ domain.

We are not only showcasing the exceptional quality and high standards of the New Zealand Education sector, and promoting the many lifestyle benefits to overseas students of an education in New Zealand we’re also going to go nuts on adventure travel whilst we’re over there at the official launch in January 2009

Rowena..

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Details about the Phase 2 Launch of YSEI (Youth Social Entrepreneurship Fund) and the associated forum on social entrepreneurship.

Title: GKP forum on Social Entrepreneurship: Empowering Youth through Entrepreneurship

Date: 22 April 2008

Description: Attend the GKP FORUM on Social Entrepreneurship to learn how Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is championing social innovation and entrepreneurship as powerful means to achieve equitable and sustainable socio-economic development through its Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI).

YSEI, a GKP Global Partnership Programme, helps combat youth unemployment and poverty by inspiring them to realise their entrepreneurial initiatives while simultaneously benefiting their communities.

Well it was like a dolphin conference at our local wave - Wategos in Byron Bay  this morning. We had over 50 dolphins swimming and surfing with us which was just truly awesome.

On almost any given day there are wild dolphins swimming in the waters that surround Cape Byron where you can encounter them closely in their natural habitat.

I use the Cape Byron walking track to get an great look at the waters below the cliffs where the dolphins can be found usually in small pods of 10-20 animals

Podcast Documentary Scholarship, 2008 Details

Earn a scholarship to go to Cambodia with World Nomads!

Do you dream about being an intrepid journalist seeking out stories from remote parts of the world? Then here is the opportunity for you!

WorldNomads.com will send one exceptional student on assignment to visit a Fred Hollows eye camp in remote, Cambodia. You will receive training from ABC Radio Journalist and Executive Producer, Tim Latham. Staying at the eye camp for three days witnessing sight restoring cataract surgery to local villagers and gaining special access to interview The Fred Hollows team and local villagers, you will seek out your own unique story to be recorded on your new mobile digital recorder.

Here is Tim Ferris talking about the “Low-Information Diet” at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Other keynoters included Eric Schmidt of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. He was invited to speak after winning an audience vote at the “Ignite” competition a few nights earlier. The rules? The presentation had to be 5 minutes long, and you needed to have exactly 20 slides, which advanced automatically every 15 seconds. That explains why he’s speaking so quickly. Ferris is the author of the 4 hour work week.

Well several years on from the launch of the Philippines 1st Telecentre (GLOW) by our non profit OrphanIT.com we’re now ready to launch the first jobs platform for small businesses wanting to outsource to telecentres (like computer schools) in developing nations. The new platform will be hosted at www.SolvePoverty.com

I gave a presentation to about 200 people at the GK3 explaining Social Outsourcing and ways it can be better utilised. The PowerPoint on social outsourcing is here.

Summary. Social outsourcing and Fair Trade in IT, by Dr. Richard Heeks