PICISOC Education SIG was started in May 2020 led by Andrew Erbs and Ian Thomson. The Education SIG has 21 members with representatives from: PNG Vanuatu Solomon Islands Tuvalu Kiribati Marshall Islands The Federated States of Micronesia New Caledonia Australia New Zealand Cook Islands Education SIG discussions will centre around key topics relevant to ICT…
Extracted from Cook Island News High-speed internet is just around the corner – but low-cost internet is still a distant hope. The people of Rarotonga and Aitutaki could be streaming internet on the new high-speed undersea cable as early as this month, if cable operators and Vodafone can just agree the last details, the telecommunications…
Extracted from Cook Island News Vodafone will be allowed to continue owning and operating the local cable network, as well as selling internet and phone services in a newly-competitive market. A new report by independent economist John de Ridder makes it clear that Avaroa Cable Ltd should not be licensed to operate as a phone…
View Original Press Release as published on Tonga Gov Portal 22nd June, 2020 Tonga’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Tonga) under the Ministry of MEIDECC is the first from the Pacific Islands region to become an Operational Member of the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) on April 2, 2020. CEO for the Ministry of…
Report by Elkana Capelle Acting Director for ICT at Ministry of Telecommunication Nauru TOPIC: Overcoming Challenges to Broadband Internet Access in the Pacific & New Opportunities with enabling regulatory and policy frameworks DESCRIPTION:This panel will discuss the digital divides in the region and how new technologies and regulation may enable better access to healthcare, education,…
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/
Report by Winifred Kula Design ThinkingTodays event was a huge success with the completion of Introduction to Scratch. 3 teams were formed and each team presented a scratch “story board” and “game” to their parents. It was a really proud moment to see the kids creativity and imagination come to life within their scratch projects….
As originally published on Post Courier Online (PNG) The National Information and Communication Technology Authority will be reviewing the retail internet pricing to include all cable systems.NICTA chief executive ocer Charles Punaha said this is to clear the misconception in the market about the dierent prices presently previously by NICTA and DataCo. Mr Punaha said…
Click to listen to the interview as heard on Pacific Media Network https://omny.fm/shows/pacificmedianetwork/edwin-liavaa-pacific-ict-and-gis-specialist-dismis Mobile phone towers are being attacked in New Zealand and around the world and authorities believe it is linked to a hoax about how the 5G network is spreading COVID-9. Edwin Liava’a has more than twenty years of experience in Information and…
[PRESS RELEASE] Amoa College is the first School in Savaii that has been registered to use SITAs ELearning platform on the 14th May 2020. The Association was doing virtual meetings and trainings with some of the schools prior to visiting Savaii to provide further workshops for Teachers and year 13 students. Amoa College session was…
Despite the COVID19 pandemic leaving the country declaring a state of emergency which disrupted our planned program for the day with Primary and Secondary school students, Women in IT Solomon Islands (WITSI) organised and commemorated Girls in ICT Day on the 23rd of April 2020, by participating in a virtual meeting on the topic “Women in…
Since the Government declared the State of Emergency due to the Covid19 pandemic, the Samoa Information Technology Association (SITA) has been exploring possible windows of opportunity to assist our Government and our people. To this end, SITA identified the Education sector as one of the key areas that is being heavily affected by the lockdown….
As originally posted on the portal of the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga 23rd April, 2020 Tongan Women in Information and Communications Technology (TWiICT) formerly known as CoConeck joined an online dialogue on Girls in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) of the United Nations to commemorate ‘Girls…
The Samoa Information Technology Association (SITA) is hosting its first National Seminar and Workshop on the 27and 28 of February 2020 to be held at the Samoa Convention Center, TATTE Building, Sogi. The goal of the Seminar and Workshop is to strengthen and build awareness of Digital Security in Samoa. To promote how to secure…
(Special Edition) Written by: Cherie Lagakali, Board Secretary, PICISOC (Pacific Island Chapter of the Internet Society); and Klee Aiken, GFCE Advisory Board member. In February 2020, the GFCE held its inaugural regional Pacific event in Melbourne, in the margins of the OCSC-GCSCC 2020 Global Cybersecurity Capacity Building Conference. During the event, donors, project implementers and…