ICDP, in collaboration with Pacific Sports Partnerships, are bringing together Pacific Connect Community members and few faces from Australia, Fiji and PNG for our next Pacific Connect Network Dialogue. Join us either online, or in Port Moresby and Suva Hubs, to collaborate and contribute to developing and implementing digital innovations in sport. Registrations by 4 November 2020.
Needing and asking for help can often be overwhelming. Knowing who and how to get support is the key to your success. ICDP has partnered with Insight Collective Group to deliver a mentoring training course for the Pacific Connect Community. Registrations close 27 October
Pacific Connect is excited to announce a free series of workshops, mentoring sessions and meetups for Solomon Islanders wanting to develop and improve their digital skills and pursue careers in technology. The program is particularly geared towards women who are passionate about or want to get involved in the ICT sector.
The Hon. Christopher Pyne, Director of ICDP, gave the Keynote Address at the Ideas Exchange (2020). Mr Pyne’s spoke on the topic of: “How will we connect and share ideas in a post Covid world, assuming there is one, when there are so many shared challenges but seemingly divergent views in our region on how to address them?”. This is a summary of his speech.
The Australian Government and DP Immersive launches Samoa’s First Virtual and Augmented Reality Training Program with support of local partners SkyEye Pacific and The Hub. Read the Press Release from DP Immersive.
Project updates, new ideas shared, and new connections made were key highlights of this year’s flagship event the Pacific Connect Ideas Exchange. Activities began in the week leading up to the event, and on the morning of 10 September around 70 Pacific Connect Community members from seven countries logged in to participate in a day-long virtual talanoa.
It has been a challenging year, to say the least! ICDP is very fortunate that it can bring more than 110 members from eight countries of the Pacific Connect Community together tomorrow to reflect and continue to share knowledge at the annual Pacific Connect Ideas Exchange.
Fifty-two network members and subject matter experts came together on 29 July for a Pacific Connect talanoa on the digitalisation of agriculture throughout the region. The latest network dialogue in the program focused on digital agriculture initiatives currently being undertaken by Pacific Connect Community members in Fiji, Lae (PNG) and Solomon Islands. Following on from the ground-breaking Storytelling & Digital Media Virtual Dialogue, the Digital AgriTech Virtual Dialogue saw Australians mix with their Pasifika counterparts online while delegates in Honiara, Lae and Suva came together at our community networking hubs.
The Pacific Connect Virtual Dialogue series developed by the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP) continues tomorrow with a Network Dialogue on ‘digital agriculture across the Pacific’. Nearly 60 participants from 7 countries will come together for the half-day talanoa, with over half joining from ‘Community Hubs’ in Honiara, Lae and Suva.
