Images of INTERFET  

Finalist - 2000 - AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association) Award - Best Reference or Information Title or Site.

While managing an Australian Army project in 1999, Multilocus became aware of the plight of children orphaned by the violence in East Timor and wanted to do something to help.

We decided to produce a CD-ROM documenting the INTERFET experience in East Timor and to fund it from our own resources. Furthermore, we wanted all profits from sales of the CD-ROM to go the Salesian Missions, a Catholic relief agency, working with East Timorese orphans.

We named the CD-ROM Images of INTERFET. Images of INTERFET contains 68 minutes of video and 1025 searchable images recording the period from July 1999 to March 2000 in East Timor. The INTERFET Commander, Major General Peter Cosgrove, launched the CD in July 2000. Throughout the project, Multilocus worked with:

	The Australian Defence Force		The Australian War Memorial
	The Australian Federal Police		Nine Network
	Nik Phillips (singer songwriter)		WIN TV QLD
	The United Nations		INTERFET personnel
	The Canadian, New Zealand and Philippines Defence Forces
	The Salesian Missions
	John Immig (freelance photographer)

“I would like to thank all the organisations that have helped in the production of this CD-ROM [Images of INTERFET]. Special mention must be made of Multilocus who have carried the great burden of its development and production,and have so generously given up their time to produce this tremendous product.”
Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove
Chief of Army
2001 Australian of the Year

Around 18,000 copies of Images of INTERFET have been sold.

It has been:

	Distributed as part of a Veterans’ Affairs peacekeeping kit to every school in Australia.
	Nominated as a finalist in the 2000 Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Awards.
	Favourably reviewed in The Australian Newspaper.
	Awarded a 4.5 out of a possible 5 rating by the magazine, Australian MacWorld.

By the end of June 2001, Multilocus had donated a total of $64,000.00 to the Salesian Missions from the sale of Images of INTERFET.