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2007 East Timor elections.


Pacific Peoples' Partnership is proud to sponsor David Webster who will be joining the Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in East Timor East Timor elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. The National Parliament (Parlamenta Nacional .

David is a long time friend and supporter of PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) The most popular method for transporting IP packets over a serial link between the user and the ISP. Developed in 1994 by the IETF and superseding the SLIP protocol, PPP establishes the session between the user's computer and the ISP using  and founding member of WestPAN, Canada's West Papua Action Network. He's currently a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Asian Institute at The Munk Centre For International Studies The Munk Centre for International Studies, part of the University of Trinity College, a federated college of the University of Toronto, is devoted to the study of numerous issues of international significance. , University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, .

Bob Crane, another WestPAN member and long time friend and supporter of PPP, is also in EastTimor as part of the Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) observing both the presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Date:Mar 22, 2007
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