The Hon. Afamasaga Lepuia’i Rico Tupa’i, Samoa’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, visited Sydney on 22-23 April at the invitation of Global Access Partners (GAP), the implementation partner of ICDP.
With small populations but vast distances and complicated logistics, the Pacific has a lot to gain from online commerce, writes Tim Harcourt, former Chief Economist of Austrade and J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics at UNSW.
ICDP brought together current and emerging leaders from across Australia, Vanuatu and the Pacific to discuss digital trade and labour mobility. The participants of the Pacific Connect Network Dialogue met in Port Vila, Vanuatu on Monday, 11 March and Tuesday, 12 March 2019.
Pacific Connect is calling for expressions of interest from ambitious, accomplished and forward-thinking people to join its Network Dialogue in Brisbane on 16-19 June 2019 to discuss the role of women entrepreneurs as technology influencers.
I’m now back on the farm, where we run some 5000-head cattle breeding operation with three full-time workers quite a world away from Port Moresby, where I attended the Pacific Connect Business Network Dialogue last month…
We, the participants of the Pacific Connect Business Network Dialogue, met in Port Moresby on Monday, 1 April and Tuesday, 2 April 2019 at the invitation of the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP). The Dialogue was co-facilitated by Mr Andrew Carriline, Chair of Pacific Connect Business Network Council, and Mr John Pora, Direction of NIUGENE PNG Ltd, and supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
As a girl from a village in Kompri, near Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province, I spent 25 years in Lae working for other people until I followed my dreams and passion to work on improving our PNG people, businesses and industry. That was the inception of Tok Stret Consulting, just on two years ago.
It began with a message: “This is your time to unleash your own story within the Papua New Guinean story, a nation that has gone from the Stone Age to the Digital Age within a generation. The growth is remarkable, and with it the opportunities are endless.”
Next week, more than 20 Papua New Guinea and Australian current and emerging leaders will come together in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, for the 2019 Pacific Connect Business Network Dialogue on ‘Innovative and disruptive technology in PNG agriculture’.
We, the participants of the Pacific Connect Network Dialogue, met in Port Vila, Vanuatu on Monday, 11 March and Tuesday, 12 March 2019 at the invitation of the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP). The Dialogue was co-facilitated by Dr Ian Watt AC, Professor Ian Young AO, Mr Taholo Kami and Mr Fred Samuel and supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
