Winifred Kula Amini (nominated by Maureen Hilyard, seconded by Alisi Tuqa) Winifred Kula Amini is enthusiastic about technology, entrepreneurship and innovation. She has over 15 years of Information Technology experience in business analysis, design and development of business processes and system solutions. She is also currently the Vice President of the PNG Computer Society and…
Kia orana As well as making a donation towards the running of PacINET 2014 on Rarotonga, Vint Cerf has also produced a little advertisement for the event. He speaks of PICISOC instead of PacINET, but we can forgive him that tiny error. Vint’s presentation. PICISOC CERF.mp4 We also have the first draft of the programme…
Affirmation of Multistakeholder Model for Internet governance by World Leaders London, United Kingdom More than 3,300 people from around the world have registered for ICANN’s 50th meeting in London, making it the largest in the organization’s history. “Today is a great day for advancement of the multistakeholder model and its inclusivity,” said Fadi Chehadé, President…
Eleven Pacific Islanders were awarded DiploFoundation Fellowships to visit International Geneva Organisations at the conclusion of a capacity building programme for the Pacific, organised by the Diplo Foundation of the University of Malta. The diplomacy areas covered included Trade, Health, Environment, Humanitarian, Human Rights and Internet Governance. The eleven students, including two PICISOC Board members,…
Rinalia Abdul Rahim from Malaysia was recently elected by members of ALAC and Regional Chairs, as the new ALAC member on the ICANN Board (2015-2017). Read about Rinalia’s achievements here Below was a celebratory dinner (left to right): Walid (Yemen), Rinalia (Malaysia), Rafid (Saudi Arabia), Maureen (Cook Islands), Robert (Canada), Holly (Australia) and Satish…
ICANN49, Singapore 22-28 March 2014 Maureen Hilyard Participated in At Large Advisory Committee policy development sessions as part of the At Large Singapore programme. My powerpoint presentation on the work of the ALAC, at the joint ccNSO Council and ALAC Leadership Team. (Joint ALAC-ccNSO presentation-MHilyard-Final) Reported on my attendance of the ccNSO member sessions and the…
Maureen Hilyard – PICISOC Board Chair, Buenos Aires, Argentina 23 November 2013 The last day.. the last meeting – the ALAC Leadership Team. I have become a member of this group through my role as the ccNSO Liaison. If I had a takeaway from this meeting – something that had a significant impact on me…
The Diplo Foundation is offering a capacity development programme for Pacific Island States which is aimed at strengthening the participation of Pacific Island States in multilateral diplomacy in general, and in Geneva-related activities in particular. DiploFoundation (or Diplo, for short) is a non-profit organisation based in Malta, with offices in Geneva and Belgrade. Diplo emerged from a project to introduce information and…
Four members of the PICISOC Board attended the Global IGF held on 22-25 October 2013 in Bali, Indonesia. We are all very grateful to the following sponsors who enabled our attendance at this year’s IGF: ISOC (Jackson Miake) Pacific Internet Partners (Maureen Hilyard and Patrick Queet) and InternetNZ (Ellen Strickland). Everyone was involved in the…
All of the presentations will be made available here.
PRESS RELEASE TONGA TO HOST PACINET 2013 Tonga will host the week long PICISOC Conference, PacINET 2013 from the 9th to the 13th of September 2013. This annual event which brings together internet experts from around the region will meet in Nuku’alofa next week to discuss issues prevalent to ICT development in the Pacific. This…
Notice of the results of the PICISOC Board election has been received, with many thanks to ICANN for help coordinating the election this year. Thank you members for your votes. We had nearly double the votes compared to last year! (But still much room for improvement in future.) Therefore I am pleased to announce that the PICISOC Board members elected…
The official report for the Chairperson is now posted and you can read it here.
View the PacINET 2013 Programme The annual PICISOC Conference, PacINET 2013, is scheduled to be held at the Fa’onelua convention centre, Nuku’alofa, Tonga. Our host will be the Tonga Ministry of Information The programme is now available here and you can check back to get the latest on this event. This year’s event celebrates the…
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…