Originally posted on A4AI – Alliance for affordable internet This post was written by A4AI Asia-Pacific Regional Coordinator Anju Mangal. Joining the Web Foundation team as a Pacific islander has been an interesting socialisation experience and a great learning process. As a woman passionate about the ICT sector and the Internet Governance process, it’s been an important…
The Asia Foundation is exploring the launch of a Pacific Islands COVID-19 Misinformation Project – a regional program examining how the spread of online misinformation and rumors related to COVID-19 has affected pandemic response in Pacific Islands nations. The goal of the project is to identify broad misinformation trends on COVID-19 topics and evaluate how…
PICISOC – ICANN collaboration In January 2020, the Chairs of ICANN’s Advisory Committees (ALAC, SSAC and RSSAC) and Supporting Organisations (GNSO, CCNSO and ASO) met with the ICANN Board Chair – Maarten Botterman – and ICANN’s President and CEO, Goran Marby. The meeting was for the Constituency Leaders to convey to the Board and ICANN…
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…
by Maureen Hilyard I was invited to attend the opening day of the APTLD meeting which was held at a separate Melbourne venue from APRICOT. After the presentations by ccTLD managers present, the finale was a presentation by PICISOC Board member, Cherie Lagakali and the signing of an MOU between PICISOC and APTLD by Board…
by Maureen Hilyard The APRICOT 2020 meeting was held in Melbourne, Australia, despite alarm bells being raised about the coronavirus issue which alerted Australian border control, at that stage, to reject anyone who had been through mainland China. In the middle of it all, news arrived that ICANN had become a victim to the global…
The Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD) and the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) have formally launched a partnership by signing a MoU at the opening of APTLD’s 77th Members Meeting and AGM in Melbourne, Australia. The MoU was signed on February 20, 2020, with the aim of building a strategic…
BY DALSIE G. BANIALA (REPORT FOR PICISOC) In the last two years serving as a MAG member representing a technical community in the pacific region wasn’t an easy ride for me. Especially in 2018, when I was a full time National Regulator for Vanuatu, and at the same time heading the institution with its own…
There were only THREE Nominations for the PICISOC Board Elections. Therefore, no Election was required as there were only three vacant Board Positions that were required to be filled. The candidates provided the following Bios and on behalf of the Board, we would like to thank them for their commitment to step up and support PICISOC…
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,…
PORT VILA, Vanuatu – The Office of the Vanuatu Telecommunications, Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator (TRBR) today announced the successful transition of Vanuatu’s .vu country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) to Neustar’s registry platform. Neustar was selected to be the Registry Operator for the .vu ccTLD in August 2019 following a highly competitive Request for Proposal (RFP)…
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as originally appears on Kacific.com Cape Canaveral, FL. 16 December 2019 – Kacific1 was launched successfully into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7.10pm Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) on 16 December 2019 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. It was placed into its target geostationary transfer orbit 33 minutes following initial…
Analyst Programmer Pacific Community (SPC) Educational Quality & Assessment Programme (EQAP) Background As an analyst programmer, I design, develop, and implement software programs, which are solutions to real-life challenges. I am in this line of profession for past four year. I started my professional career as a software developer at Datec Fiji Limited. Currently, I…
Authored by Georgina Naigulevu 03/12/2019 Today’s celebration of International Day of People with Disabilities at our local Park and various remote island areas in Fiji , held an historic event whereby all the local Disability People Organizations came together with Community Volunteers to map out walkways and pavements using their mobile to collect data in…