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2008 Desert Knowledge Symposium and Business Showcase

Developing Desert Directions: Rethinking the Future
Alice Springs-Australia, 4–7 November 2008
The Desert Knowledge Symposium is a forum to exchange ideas for the greater use of desert knowledge for sustainable growth. Desert Knowledge Australia, the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre and the Desert Peoples Centre joined to host this 2008 Symposium and Business Showcase

The Symposium will not only be interesting to desert expert, but also and especially for people working in remote/rural areas and communities. Discussions are also on to organize a special forum after the conference for the international participants. We invite you to fly directly from the TCI annual conference in Cape Town to Alice Springs. For further information on this possibility please contact Mike Crowe, our TCI contact for this conference!

As participant, you will be part of this rare opportunity to hear about how business innovators, researchers and educators from Australia and overseas are working in partnership with communities, industry and governments to develop a body of desert knowledge that will help sustain desert communities around the world.

2008 Desert Knowledge Symposium and Business Showcase will focus on six key themes:

• Making remote governance work
• Networking business and knowledge
• Learning for desert futures
• Capturing industry opportunities for desert people
• Seizing the desert environment opportunity
• Exporting desert knowledge

The Desert Knowledge Symposium is a forum to exchange ideas for the greater use of desert knowledge for sustainable growth. It brings together the Aboriginal people, pastoralists, business people, researchers, artists, administrators and visitors from overseas countries with desert and remote regions.

The Symposium is a unique chance to focus on both the research and ideas being generated throughout Australia and elsewhere and the know-how that comes from long experience of desert living. It will be a major forum to apply these insights to the challenges confronting the desert people, environments and economies in Australia and throughout the world.

More information:
www.desertknowledge2008.com

Contact:
Mike Crowe mike.crowe @ desertknowledge.com.au
Networking and Communications Manager
Desert Knowledge Australia