Women in Technology - Anju Mangal, SIG Chairwoman

Geographic Information Systems Wolf Forstreuter, SIG Chairman

IPV6 Franck Martin, SIG Chairman

A call for expressions of interest to host PacINET2012 has been made by the PICISOC board. If you are interested in doing hosting PacINET in 2012 (or some other time in the future) please read the doc found at http://www.picisoc.org/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=53.

Deadline for expressions of interest for PacINET2012 is 31 January 2012.

Expressions of interest should be sent to the PICISOC Chair at copied to .

(please note that the contact details on the information sheet are out of date)

Any questions should be directed to the chair Maureen Hilyard.



The PICISOC board have appointed new office holders for 2011-2012. The following people were confirmed by unanimous vote of those present. As there were single nominations for each position it was not necessary to hold a vote for any of the positions.

Honorary Chair - Maureen Hilyard
Honorary Vice Chair - Andrew Molivurae
Secretary - Ellen Strickland
Treasurer - Siaosi Sovaleni

Other areas of responsibility
Website - Will Tibben and Andrew Berquist
Mail lists, memberships and SIGs - David Leeming


A blind reporter from Samoa has called on website designers to consider people with no vision when designing their websites.

Faaolo Utumapu is a reporter and researcher for Independent Samoa's TV One and 89.1 FM, which are both owned by Samoa Quality Broadcasting. Prior to that, she was a field reporter for Apia based Radio Polynesia and an interpretor for the Samoa Parliament, providing instant translations from Samoan into English.

Faaolo spoke at PacINET 2011 on behalf of the Nuanua o le Alofa (NOLA), a non-government organization that advocates for people with disabilities in Apia. Her participation at PacINET2011 was sponsored by AusAID, Australia's overseas aid organisation. She spoke about the impact of technology on people with disabilities. She said that the internet has really bridged the gap in terms of blind people getting immediate access to printed material. She said before, they had to wait for ages to have the materials translated to braile. But reading software programs like the one she uses for work, has made it possible for people like her to get access to printed material quicker. But she says webpages dont always meet the needs of people with special needs.

More information about designing websites that can be viewed by people with disabilities can be found at www.w3c.org.
Sourced from talanei.com (http://www.talanei.com/viewNews.php?storyID=5488)



If you missed out on attending PacINET2011 in Pagopago American Samoa a handy summary of most of the presentations can be found here. Over time the presentations will be posted online for you to review.

A special thank you to the sponsors of PacINET 2011: AusAid?, Pacific Internet Partners (PIP), the Internet Society (ISoc), Professor Norman Okamura of Hawaii, and American Samoa ISP Blue Sky.



Internet NZ, who supervised the elections, report the final outcome was as follows. Voting details were sent to 721 email addresses, provided by PICISOC. In total, then, there were 35 people voting, casting votes for 105 individuals (3 individuals on each ballot paper).

The final count was:

13 Dalsie Baniala
34 Maureen Hilyard
31 David Leeming
27 Andrew Molivurae

Therefore Maureen Hilyard, David Leeming and Andrew Molivurae have been duly elected for a two year term.

Thank you to all candidates

If you have any questions regarding the Board or the election process, please do not hesitate to email nickwAinternetnz.net.nz.

Take a walk back through time. Access Previous Wiki entries.

• Internet Society Joins Opposition to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)    (12 Dec 2011 09:49:02 GMT)
  Internet Society Joins Opposition to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
• Internet Society Supports United Nations Human Rights Day Focus on Social Media    (09 Dec 2011 12:11:41 GMT)
  Internet Society Supports United Nations Human Rights Day Focus on Social Media
• Alexandre Cassen and Rémi Després Recognized for Excellence in Advancing IPv6 Next-Generation Internet Protocol    (16 Nov 2011 16:27:54 GMT)
  Alexandre Cassen and Rémi Després Recognized for Excellence in Advancing IPv6 Next-Generation Internet Protocol
• Leading Technologist Professor Kilnam Chon Receives 2011 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award    (16 Nov 2011 16:27:22 GMT)
  Leading Technologist Professor Kilnam Chon Receives 2011 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award
• Call for Nominations for the Internet Society Board of Trustees    (15 Nov 2011 10:38:59 GMT)
  Call for Nominations for the Internet Society Board of Trustees
• Applied Networking Research Prize Highlights Best New Ideas in Networking    (14 Nov 2011 17:03:11 GMT)
  Applied Networking Research Prize Highlights Best New Ideas in Networking
• Internet Engineering Task Force, World’s Premier Internet Standards Development Organization, Holds Meeting in Taipei    (14 Nov 2011 10:53:09 GMT)
  Internet Engineering Task Force, World’s Premier Internet Standards Development Organization, Holds Meeting in Taipei
• Internet Society Announces 26 Fellows to Attend Internet Engineering Task Force Meetings in Taipei, Taiwan and Paris, France    (09 Nov 2011 12:29:16 GMT)
  Internet Society Announces 26 Fellows to Attend Internet Engineering Task Force Meetings in Taipei, Taiwan and Paris, France. IETF Fellowships are part of the Next Generation Leaders Programme
• Call for Nominations to the PIR Board of Directors    (26 Oct 2011 17:09:17 GMT)
  Call for Nominations to the PIR Board of Directors
• Internet Society Board of Trustees Views the Internet as an Enabler of Human Rights    (25 Oct 2011 13:25:40 GMT)
  Internet Society Board of Trustees Views the Internet as an Enabler of Human Rights

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