PICISOC news
17 Mar 2021 By Ian Barber, Lea Kaspar, Ruby Khela, Daniela Schnidrig, Richard Wingfield and Matthew Griffin The rise and evolution of the internet and digital technologies has brought about new opportunities and challenges for communities around the world to exercise and enjoy their human rights – including freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and…
By Andrew Macfarlane, 1 NEWS Reporter Another Government organisation is grappling with a cyber-attack, after discovering a threat last month. The Health Research Council, which is responsible for managing around $120 million in funding annually, says it’s addressing “an incident affecting the organisation’s IT environment.” While a spokesperson wouldn’t go into detail about the exact…
By Marian Faa on Pacific Beat with Various Presenters Internet users in Papua New Guinea say data is still ‘very expensive’ one year after the installation of a 4,700 kilometre fibre optic cable between Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. PNG’s independent regulator, the National Information and Communications Technology Authority, has been reviewing…
GOVERNMENT DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DRAFT BILL RELEASED FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION Minister for Information and Communications Technology, Hon. Timothy Masiu, today announced the release of the Digital Transformation Bill for public consultation. When passed by the PNG Parliament, the Bill will usher a much more coordinated and systematic approach in the procurement, deployment and the use of…
9 December 2020 In an effort to promote good ccTLD management practices in the South Pacific, APTLD is going to contribute to the Pacific IGF to be held in the onsite format in Nadi, Fiji, in September 2021 back to back with APTLD80. As an observer to the Pacific IGF Multistakeholder Steering Group formed to…
The Pacific Islands e-Learning Talanoa was organised by the PICISOC Education Working Group and drew on the experiences of four regional e-Learning leaders with more than a total of 50 years of combined e-Learning or ICT for Better Education experience. It was scheduled for 7PM on Thursday 20th November, with some confusion on the actual…
Board members of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC): 2018–2020 COVID-19 created great upheaval globally but throughout and continuing, the Pacific continues to demonstrate the resiliency that has developed over years of overcoming the many natural disasters that are a constant for the many island communities within the region. One particular IT…
Join us for our next e-talanoa: e-Learning and the PacificIn this Talanoa, we will take a broad view of e-Learning such that any use of ICTs or Digital Technologies in teaching and learning and administration of the Education System will be included. This is sometimes called ICT for Better Education (ICT4BE). The format will be…
The Second Pacific Women in ICT Virtual Meetup saw an introduction to IGF with our women IGF experts in the region. A total of 18 Pacific Women in ICT attended to listen, learn and collaborate online. Sylvia Cadena spoke on her experience with the Global IGF where different individuals, societies and/or organisations have different perspectives…
Ms Cherie Lagakali, Chair My name is Cherie Lagakali, I am a Database Consultant currently collecting information for APNIC Foundation’s pactraining workshops to be held in the Pacific in 2020. I first joined PICISOC in 2008, received a NetHui Fellowship in 2015 and became a PICISOC board member 2017-2019. During my tenure on the board I have represented PICISOC in ICANN ALS, maintained dialogue for cybersecurity mapping initiatives…
The GFCE has appointed Cherie Lagakali as the GFCE’s first Pacific Liaison. This role and appointment follows the GFCE’s first Pacific Regional Meeting, held in Melbourne in February 2020 and in the margins of the OCSC-GCSCC 2020 Global Cybersecurity Capacity Building Conference. The GFCE Pacific Regional Meeting provided an opportunity for donors, project implementers and Pacific Island…
Register now: bit.ly/37vxjp7 A short bio of the Speakers Anne Dunn-BaleilevukaCommissioner for the Online Safety Commission or OSC, Anne is an executive leader of Fiji’s recently established Online Safety Commission or OSC. The OSC Fijians a space to resolve concerns and complaints with respect to online abuse such as cyberbullying and promote online safety for…
By Swaran Ravindra As an academic who teaches ICT academia and TVET programs to both school leavers and industry experts, you just cannot help looking at everyday things through a highly “technical”, yet feasible perspective. You tend to continuously look for ways in which ICT could improve the lives of your people. Coming from a…
Pacific women in ICT #PICwICT October meetup Tuesday 27th October 7pm Fiji Time. An introduction to IGF with our women in IGF experts in the region. Registration link: https://bit.ly/34ngPgW
A report by Carole Cholai Recently a separate mailing list was put together to capture the women subscribed to the Pacific Internet Society Mailing list which now forms the Pacific Women in ICT mailing list. An online registration form was shared amongst the group and online networks which 67 women registered to attend the 1st Virtual…