| Internet Pioneer urges Pacific Islanders to face Internet Challenges at PacINET |
| Dr Vinton G. Cerf, a co-founder and creator of the Internet, has urged Pacific islanders to rise to the challenges and opportunities that the Internet provides to the Pacific and the world.
"The Internet is one of the most valuable contemporary tools for linking to the world-wide community for business, education, cultural exchange and travel. No one has a "corner" on creativity and the Pacific Island populations should have equal footing in the cyber world where they can leverage their own, un [...] |
| ISOC will support the Marovo Lagoon Learning Network in Solomon Islands |
| The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) is proud to announce that the Marovo Lagoon Learning Network project will be financially supported by the Internet Society (ISOC) as part of its "Internet Project Funding Initiative".
The Internet Society (ISOC) holds two grant rounds each year and dedicated US$200,000 to support the projects of ISOC chapters and members in 2007.
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| PICISOC to celebrate OneWebDay |
| PICISOC will be joining other ISOC Chapters to celebrate OneWebDay on the22 September.
OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities.
As with Earth Day - an inspiration and model for OneWebDay - it's up to the celebrants to decide how to celebrate.
The creation of the World Wide Web (the Web) was certainly an important date in the Internet history, what will be the next Interne [...] |
| Dr Jimmie Rogers announces RICS and SPIN initiatives at PacINET 2007 |
| Dr Jimmie Rogers, Director General, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) announced in Honiara, Solomon Islands, two major initiatives for Internet connectivity for the Pacific Islands during PacINET 2007, the leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) conference organised every year by the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC).
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| PacINET 2007 – A quick review |
| PacINET 2007 has just finished in Honiara, Solomon Islands. PacINET is organised every year by the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC).
PacINET is the prime event in the region in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and this year, it has proven an even bigger success.
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| Cook Islands win PacINET 2008 |
| The region's biggest annual Information Communication Technology (ICT) meeting, PacINET, is to be held in the Cook Islands next year.
This was decided in Honiara, Solomon Islands, by the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) as a successful PacINET 2007 came to an end.
Cook Islands and Papua New Guinea both presented some excellent bids to host PacINET 2008. Through a tight vote, PICISOC members selected Cook Islands.
Cook Islands delegates hosting bid [...] |
| Pacific ICT Regulators convene at PacINET 2007 |
| Jointly organised by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC), the one-day ICT Regulators’ Forum was a preliminary meeting of PacINET 2007.
Topics covered by participants included developments in Internet governance, approaches to SPAM and security, the introduction of the new Internet numbering standard (IPv6) and Voice over Internet (VoIP).
The ICT Regulators’ Forum was attended by senior government representatives from the r [...] |
| First Pacific IPv6 Forum at PacINET 2007 |
| The Pacific will be left behind if it does not jump onboard the ‘new Internet’.
At the first Pacific IPv6 Forum held yesterday at PacINET 2007, participants were briefed on the latest developments in the IPv6 world by regional and international experts in the field.
Presenters included PICISOC Chair and founding President of the IPv6 Forum Pacific Islands, Rajnesh Singh, President, IPv6 Forum (Global), Latif Ladid, Senior Technical Leader, IPv6 technologies, with Cisco Systems, Tony Hain, [...] |
| Solomon Islands PM opens PacINET 2007 |
| The Internet can be the medium through which knowledge can be acquired and harnessed.
This was one of the messages Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, Hon Manasseh Sogavare, delivered to participants of PacINET 2007 this morning while officially opening the meeting.
“The Internet is the perfect medium to do so because it transcends geographical and national boundaries, cultures, religious beliefs and political affiliations,” said Hon Sogavare.
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| PICISOC returns to its origin: Honiara, Solomon Islands |
| The Pacific Island Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) is holding its annual meeting, PacINET, at the very place of its birth in 1999.
In his address to the PacINET 2007 Opening Plenary this morning, PICISOC Chair, Rajnesh Singh, remarked that PICISOC was founded at the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) in Honiara, Solomon Islands, some eight years ago.
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