Pacific Connect Community Hub Coordinator, Seluvaia Kauvaka, shares her experience from the recent Tongan volcano eruption and tsunami. Selu, a telecommunications and analyst professional, details the recovery effort for Tonga’s communications.

Pacific Connect’s first Dialogue of the year ‘Profiling Pacific Women in Business’ was held on 16 February. The online event brought together forty two new and existing Community members in a new interview style format. Participants from five countries joined the 1.5-hour ‘conversation’ virtually and in person, with Pacific Connect Hubs convened in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and Port Vila, Vanuatu.

DP Immersive in partnership with Jeune Creative and Pacific Connect is seeking to bring creative mindsets in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea for its first AR/VR Workshop in February. Registration is open now to take the first ten (10) participants for this compelling augmented and virtual reality session that will roll out between February and March 2022.

2021 has been an enormous year for our Pacific Hubs, which operate as pop-up hosting facilities in eight locations: Port Moresby, Lae, Honiara, Apia, Port Vila, Suva, Nadi-Lautoka and Nuku’alofa.