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Classes respond to women in tech drought
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as originally appearing on Samoaobserver A search on Google Images for ‘hacker’ brings up a variation on the same theme of solo, hooded, largely male looking figures hunched over a keyboard, lines of computer code crossing their screens. But is that all a coder really is? Not according to the “hustler” behind Girl Geek Academy,…
PacINET 2012 Participants’ Information – Suva, Fiji
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PacINET 2012 Conference Japan Pacific ICT Centre 22nd – 26th November 2012 BACKGROUND PacINET is the annual regional conference of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet SOCiety (PICISOC). The first formal internet organisation in the Pacific region, IT-PacNET,…
International Day of Girls feature – Georgina Hilei’l Kiele
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Yesterday, October 11 was the international day of the girl and so let’s celebrate one of our own, Ms. Georgina Hilei’i Kiele who hails from Manus and New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea. She is working to bring up her younger sister and be a role model for her and teach her how to…
At-Large@ICANN67
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ICANN’s first virtual meeting, March 2020. by Maureen Hilyard, ALAC Chair The announcement by the ICANN Board Chair Maarten Botterman that his first ICANN meeting as Chair was going to be virtual due to the increased developments of the coronoavirus outbreak globally, would have been a great challenge for him in his new role. The…
PNG: Internet still ‘very expensive’ after Australia builds underwater fibre optic cable
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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…
Samoa to host ITU’s global Girls in ICT Day 2020 celebrations
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As originally posted on ITU.int Pacific Island Nation strengthens commitment to promoting tech studies to girls & leveraging digital skills to boost sustainable development ITU’s annual global Girls in ICT Day celebration will be held next year in the Independent State of Samoa. The advocacy event, which raises visibility of the importance of attracting women…