Asia on the Edge 2008 - Thought Leaders Forum

I don't often put up such posts on our tribe blog, but given our church's focus for next year - Loving our neighbours to bring about Community Transformation, I thought this is something that some of you might be interested to attend. The Thought Leaders Forum, organised as part of the entire Asia on the Edge 2008 festival is a series of public lectures and a forum that is aimed at examining the national, social and cultural traditions of Asia and how its past shapes the present Asia and charts its future development.

Of particular interest to some of us might be the Public Lecture by Mechai Viravaidya. Dr Mechai Virayaidya is the Founder/Chairman of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), one of Thailand's largest and most successful private, non-profit development organisations that initiated community-based family planning services, poverty reduction, rural development and environmental programs, as well as HIV/AIDS prevention activities throughout Thailand. ...

Dr Virayaidya will be speaking on Privatising Poverty Alleviation. In his talk, he will share about how he has seen in his years of experience that while many governments promise to deliver people from poverty, in most cases they do not succeed because of market imperfections. He suggests that the business community has a big part to play in filling this gap.

You can find more details of the public lectures here. I have signed up for the public lecture with Dr Mechai Virayaidya in case any of you are interested to go too.

Joshua Teo