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EVENT DETAILS: |
Date:
Thursday 26th May 2011
Time:
10:30 – 12:30
Venue:
Longmeadow Restaurant
109 Montecasino Boulevard
Witkoppen Road
Fourways | Details |
RSVP:
Before the 12th May to Mary or or call 011 467 4935.
Please advise dietary requirements when you RSVP.
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| Microsoft invites you to attend our first Women in IT Power Network breakfast for 2011. |
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| The advancement of technology has had an enormous impact on the world and people are becoming more and more reliant on the benefits it provides. |
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| This has never been so evident as the mobilisation of technology for disaster management in recent humanitarian crises across the globe. |
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| Our guest speaker Jeffrey Avina, Director of Citizenship and Community Affairs for Microsoft, Middle East and Africa will share how technology has been able to support and assist governments and development agencies as they address emergency response and disaster recovery. |
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| At the event you will have the opportunity to network with your peers from the public and private ICT sector. | |
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Microsoft Disaster Response and Corporate Citizenship
Microsoft and its partners are working alongside local governments and NGOs to provide emergency response and disaster recovery following the natural disasters in Haiti and Pakistan. See below for further details...
Story 1:
Helping Governments Recover from Disasters - In both Haiti and Pakistan, Microsoft and its partners worked with intergovernmental agencies, such as the United Nations (UN), local governments, and NGOs, to assess the needs and offer support. The emergency responses to Haiti and Pakistan were addressed in two stages—the initial effort is always focused on saving lives immediately following a disaster, and the long-term efforts are centered on the rebuilding process.
Story2:
Haitian Schools Empowered by Technology Solutions - The devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010 destroyed 4,000 Haitian schools—90 percent of the nation’s educational institutions. To help rebuild Haiti better than before the earthquake, Microsoft in 2010 made a U.S.$1.5 million Clinton Global Initiative commitment in partnership with non-profit Inveneo, HP, and The EKTA Foundation. A key component of the commitment is Lighthouse Labs, a project to improve education through technology by building computer labs at 40 schools by the end of 2012.
Story3:
Technology Helps Pakistan Relief Workers Improve Disaster Response - Heavy monsoon rains began drenching Pakistan in late July 2010, causing unprecedented flooding that put an estimated one-fifth of the country under water. As many as 20 million people were affected and at least 10 million have been left without shelter—more than double the number of people affected by the 2004 tsunami and the Haiti earthquake combined, according to the United Nations. The flooding wiped out at least 5 million acres of crops and destroyed 1.9 million homes. | |
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| 10h00 - 10h30 |
Guests arrive and register
(Arrival Champagne & juice) |
| 10h30 |
Guests to be seated. Cold food to be served at buffet |
| 10:45 - 10:50 |
Welcome and introduction –
Mteto Nyati |
| 10:50 - 11:30 |
Jeffrey Avina, Director of Citizenship and Community Affairs Director for Microsoft MEA - How technology can be mobilised to assist recovery during humanitarian crises, highlighting recent examples from Haiti, Egypt, Pakistan and Japan |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Hot buffet |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Q&ANetworking |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Networking | |
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains - and is immortal. ~Albert Pike | | |
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| ABOUT JEFFREY AVINA |
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Jeffrey Avina is the Director of Citizenship and Community Affairs, Microsoft Middle East and Africa, a region covering 79 countries. Jeffrey and his team promote Microsoft in its keen desire to spread the benefit of IT throughout all communities. His principal counterparts are Government Ministries, International Development agencies (including the World Bank, European Community, African Development Bank, USAID, the UN etc.) international and national NGO’s. |
| His work focuses on helping these organizations use IT effectively to help these partners meet the development needs and challenges of the diverse populations in this region, particularly, youth, women, and the poor and disenfranchised. | |
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