The Crawford School Students Association (CSSA) warmly invites all students to the first seminar of the year. We believe that the presence of diverse group of students at Crawford School representing different nationalities, regions and cultures is an asset.

The Seminar Series was established in 2014, and seeks to provide an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences in a relaxed, conversational atmosphere.

In this session of CSSA Seminar series, ANU HULT Prize Team 2015 will be sharing their idea with the Crawford community followed by a debriefing session.

MoboKiddo Business Model

Early childhood education is not an isolated issue. MoboKiddo provides a multi-faceted early childhood education solution by (i) ensuring children are exposed to both traditional and technological learning facilitated by our trained local community members, (ii) transforming nutrition into an incentive rather than an issue by rewarding member households with food via partnered supermarkets, and (iii) constantly raising the quality and creativity of our education system by a peer-review process. Our financial diversification includes elements such as cooperate partnership, mobile ad-words and a $9 annual fee per child, guarantees our model is financially sustainable and feasible for urban slum families. Starting with Jakarta, Indonesia, MoboKiddo will build brand and expand into India and Bangladesh by franchising to provide quality, affordable early childhood education to 10 million children by 2020. MoboKiddo is a true social entrepreneurship that is financially sustainable, and provides the quality education and empowers the local community.

ANU HULT Prize team members

Aashutosh Mani Dixit Ashutosh is Master of International and Development Economics and an MBA. Before going to Australia to study Development Economics as Australian Award Scholar, he worked for almost four years in Standard Chartered Bank as Relationship Manager-Small and Medium Enterprise in Nepal.

Muhammad Farhan Akhtar Farhan is interested in policy and development issues. He has worked for over four years in corporate and development sector. He has presented at national and international research conferences and earned quite a few research publications. Currently he is doing his second Master of Public Policy at ANU under the Australia Awards Scholarship.

Olivia D Purba Olivia is an environmentalist and has been working for environmental policy issues in various roles for the last four years. Olivia holds a bachelor degree in International Relations from University of Indonesia and currently conducting her Master on Environmental Management and Development at ANU under the Australian Awards Scholarship.

Thet Zaw Htwe Thet is studying the Master of Environmental Management and Development at ANU under the Australian Award Scholarship. Before this, he wrote a book named Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) of Myanmar and worked as the decorated peer learning facilitator at a pilot education project at the Curtin University for two years.

Xavier Flores Aguirre Xavier is a lawyer specialised in human rights and constitutional issues, who has worked in international human rights cases and in the redaction of the current Constitution of his country, Ecuador (2008). Before going to Australia to study a master in public policy, his last job was as a political advisor in the Ecuadorian National Assembly.

To register, visit the Facebook event page, or email cssa.anu@gmail.com.