1. Present and Future
Keith Horton (khorton@uow.edu.au)

2. What is ASAP?
• Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is
an international network that seeks to help
academics and students enhance their impact
on global poverty.

3. The main question we ask
• Given the resources we can muster, and what
others are already doing, what can we do that
is likely to have the most impact on global
poverty?

4. Structure
• ASAP International (academicsstand.org)
• ASAP national and regional chapters (India,
Canada, Germany, Spain, the UK, Mexico,
Oceania . . .)

5. What do we do?
(1) Stimulate discussion among academics and
others about our main question (Given the
resources we can muster, and what others
are already doing, what can we do that is
likely to have the most impact on global
poverty?) (conferences, symposium in Ethics
& International Affairs (July 2012))

6. What do we do?
(2) Organise projects
– ASAP international (Health Impact Fund; Impact:
Global Poverty . . .)
– ASAP India (Know Your Rights India)
– ASAP Oceania (Australian Political Party Poverty
Audit)
–...

7. What should we do in the future?
• ???