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Amadu Wurie Barrie MACS (Member of the Australian Computer Society) Prov is an Australian public servant. He arrived in Australia from the Refugee camps in Africa through Australia’s humanitarian program in 2001. As a print journalist (1995-’99) Amadu was forced to flee his native country Sierra Leone for fear of persecution and death threats as a result of a brutal civil war between 1991 and 2002. He graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Information Systems (BIS) from the Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth Western Australia. He also holds an Advanced Diploma and Diploma in Electronic Commerce (EC). Amadu is an accredited speaker that has presented several papers among which included the 2008 31st conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (Building a Common Future – Africa and Australasia) in Melbourne, Victoria, 2008 Australian Computer Society (ACS) annual conference in Canberra (“Diversity, Innovation and Risk Challenges for the ICT Professionals”) and 2006 Murdoch University’s sponsored seminar (Social Inclusion of Refugees in Western Australia) with topics on “Australia-Africa Education and Development Capability Alignment Strategy”, “Discovering an IT Career” and “A long journey from Sierra Leone to Australia: A personal story”, respectively. The latter was later published as a collection of the seminar’s contributors’ topics. Amadu lives in Canberra with his family; wife and three kids, mum and younger brother. He also joggles up with his hectic schedule (work and family) as Secretary of the Association of Sierra Leonean Journalists in Exile (ASALJIE) Australia Inc and as Public Officer of the Sierra Leonean Community in Australia’s capital, Canberra.