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Freitag, 22.11.2024
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PIF: Pacific Islands Forum

  • Pacific Islands: Telecommunications: Liberalisation, Priority for digital Strategy

    A decade ago, the coconut wireless was the Pacific’s definition of communication. Like the tales, myths and legends that make up the foundation of any Pacific Islands community, information was best passed orally, some exaggerated and some misrepresented along the way, through generation after generation.

    Today, the coconut wireless is comical, a pun that means rumour and speculation. Historical moments need not be documented in the spoken but rather in the verbatim. The evolution of communication has been fast that even the written word is becoming outdated. After all, modern technology and infrastructure has made it possible to capture time immemorial in the quickest and efficient period possible.

  • UN ICT Hub Continues Support of e-Government in the Pacific through Latest Round of Training

    APCICT delivers training on ICT project management

    Participants of an e-government workshop are attending a two-day training session today on information and communication technology (ICT) for development at a regional United Nations capacity building institute in the Republic of Korea.

    The Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (UN-APCICT/ESCAP), a regional institute of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, began a training session on ICT project management for twenty-three government officials from Pacific Island States at its training facilities in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 12 to 13 July 2010.

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