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Friday, 19.04.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

Pazifik / Pacific

  • Computer access in schools is key need in Pacific

    Pacific islands not only face challenges getting high-speed Internet access to small, remote populations, they must step up efforts to bring computer literacy programs to grade schools so that islanders can make use of the technology now becoming available, said Forum Secretariat telecommunications advisor John Budden, who has just completed a Pacific-wide survey of telecommunications capabilities for the regional organization.

    Both Budden, who works for the Fiji-based Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission information communication technology adviser Siaosi Sovaleni, said the issue in the Pacific is not just getting technology to people, but people’s ability to make use of it.

  • Enhancing Government Services in the Pacific Region Using ICT

    In response to the challenges and opportunities of this digital age, many public sector organisations are embracing the concept of e-government-government using information and communication technology (ICT) to improve their service delivery, strengthen accountability, and increase transparency.

    To enhance e-government services in the Pacific region, the Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec), in collaboration with SPC, conducted a regional workshop on developing e-government and e-business strategies. The workshop ran from 10-14 May and was held at the Tanoa Tusitala Hotel in Apia, Samoa.

  • India plans e-network for small Pacific island states

    With UN reforms inching back on the global agenda and keeping climate change negotiations in mind, India is now wooing Pacific small island states with an e-network, on the lines it created in Africa, to bring them triple benefits of tele-education, governance and medicine.

    Although the proposal has come from UN permanent representatives of six Pacific island nations who are currently visiting India, New Delhi is ready to go the extra mile to create the Pacific e-network for these low-lying coastal countries.

    The envoys of the six countries - Solomon Islands, Palau, Nauru, Tuvalu, Micronesia and Vanuatu - visited the Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) facility here this week.

  • Integrating Government in the Pacific Islands

    “We’re all fine here. Thank you, Mr Prime Minister”, said David Tovovour, the Assistant Secretary General of Tafea, one of the six provinces that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Tovovour was speaking by videoconference from Isangel on the island of Tanna, 225km south of Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila on Efate island, where the Prime Minister was standing. The occasion was Vanuatu’s celebration of the 2012 World Telecommunications and Information Society Day.

    That simple demonstration to the Prime Minister and to the public showed just how far the Government of Vanuatu has come in a few short years with respect to investment in, and deployment of information and communications technology (ICT). In 2008, the Government signed a loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China to finance the “E-Government Project”. The focus of the project was the development and commissioning of an SDH microwave and VSAT transmission network connecting Port Vila with the provincial capitals on five other islands, along with a fibre-optic network linking all Government agencies to each other and to a centralised data centre. The planned data centre would be equipped with a full complement of servers, data communications equipment, and software to support a full-featured MPLS network.

  • Pacific Islanders In Korea For e-Government Skills

    A group of government officials from Pacific Island states have arrived in the Republic of Korea to take part in an intensive course on ways to transform government operations and improve public service delivery through the use of digital technologies.

    The course is centred on a two-week programme in Incheon and Seoul, where the 22 government officials from 13 Pacific Island countries will learn and exchange experiences and ideas with e-government experts.

  • Pacific Islands: Forum countries set to approve information technology programme

    Ministers from the 16 Pacific Islands Forum countries are tomorrow expected to give the green light to the first stage of a programme to spread Information Communications Technology through the region.

    Forum officials have put together a development ladder for a process they say could cost billions of dollars over the next ten years.

  • Pacific Organisations Deliberate On ICT Progress

    Officials of the Forum Secretariat, Forum member countries’ communications departments, Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific (CROP) organisations and NGOs among others began deliberations on the progress of ICT in the region and the next steps to be suggested to the Forum countries’ ministers of communication who will meet later this week.

  • The Pacific's digital future

    Led by bloggers, digital entrepreneurs and social media groups in Papua New Guinea, a Pacific 'digital generation' is emerging that is increasingly influencing public debates, forming policy ideas, holding institutions accountable and coordinating political protests. The potential size and influence of the Pacific's emerging 'digital generation' is enhanced by the fact that more than 50% of the regional population is estimated to be below the age of 24.

    In a new Lowy Institute Analysis research paper launched today, Digital Islands: How the Pacific's ICT Revolution is Transforming the Region, I outline how the Pacific Islands region is in the midst of an information and communication technology (ICT) revolution that could have profound implications for the region's governance and development.

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