This is an open call to join the organising committee for Pacific Internet Governance Forum to brainstorm on a design-thinking approach for the 2021 event. Please send an email to amolivurae@gmail.com topic: Pacific IGF 2021 and APTLD if you are keen. Find out more about the Pacific IGF – https://picisoc.org/category/pacific-igf/
Catalyzing Women’s Entrepreneurship – Creating a Gender Responsive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Women ICT Frontier Initiative 24-25 July Suva, Fiji Fiji recently launched a programme on ‘Catalyzing Women’s Entrepreneurship – Creating a Gender Responsive Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.’ This regional initiative is a 5-year programme, funded by the Government of Canada with support from the UN Economic and Social…
Each year the Board holds elections for half of its membership. This year, three positions on the Board are due for re-election. The Board members whose term are coming to an end are: Maureen Hilyard, Andrew Molivurae and David Leeming Nominations are currently being requested and will close on 16 August 2013. Elections will then…
Meet the lovely ladies, Mele Manitisa and Florida Tumulango who are currently putting together the Pacific IGF’s first hybrid virtual meeting: Pacific IGF 2021 and APTLD which is taking place from 6 – 9th September, 2021. Mele Manitisa is from Tonga, her experience as a Pacific Islander studying and working in New Zealand has helped her…
By Will Tibben Thank you to all those who participated in the first “PICISOC E-Talanoa (inaugural): FOSS (free and open-source software) is free and its open but how does it work?” Special thanks to panelists Edwin Liava’a, Ken Katafone and Ashley Maher. To learn more about these gentlemen check out their bios below. All are…
The PICISOC Board welcomes its four newly elected members. 89 PICISOC members participated in the election, and although this is a small percentage of our total membership, the number far exceeds electoral participants in past years. The Board was very grateful for the services of the Internet Society officer, Naveed Haq, who coordinated the Pacific Chapter’s…
Seventeen years ago, the Y2K bug was making headlines around the world as programmers worked frantically to update their systems to prevent a potential crash on 1 January 2000. It was during this Y2K rush that Etuate Cocker, a network/systems engineer at Spark New Zealand, who originally hails from the Kingdom of Tonga, remembers becoming interested…