Presentations

Type	Presenter	Title	Paper	E-mail
Presentation	Al Blake	GreenIT – How to achieve sustainable Computing	Gartner Research has estimated that Global ICT operations account for 2% of annual greenhouse gas emissions, approximately equivalent to the Airline Industry. This figure is liable to increase with ever expanding demands for compute power and storage. With the Global Scientific Community accepting that man-made climate change is a reality it is essential that steps are taken now to minimise the impact of increasing use of ICT. Given that many of the countries that are likely to feel the earliest negative effects of rising temperatures are located in the Pacific region, limiting CO2 emissions and encouraging others to do the same is a priority for Pacific Island States and Territories. The paper examines strategies currently being adopted to minimise ICT impacts. Many of them are straight-forward and low-cost, while even high complexity solutions can often deliver a positive financial benefit, especially in economies with relatively high power supply costs.	al@blakes.net
Presentation	Ana Pokino	Programmes and Possibilities for IT in Education	TBA	TBA
Presentation	Charles Carlson	Using IT to manage a Crisis in the Cook Islands	TBA	TBA
Presentation	Chris Hammond Thrasher	Koha and Greenstone: open source library software in the Pacific	High quality open source software is a very attractive solution to many information problems in the developing world. As a result of support from UNESCO and USP, Pacific libraries are increasingly looking towards the Koha library management system and the Greenstone digital library system to meet their information needs. This paper explores the benefits and challenges in deploying these systems in South Pacific countries and shares the experiences of deployments in the Cook Islands, Samoa, and Fiji as well as planned deployments in Tuvalu and Fiji.	hammondthrasher_c@usp.ac.fj
Presentation	Dr Hyeun Suk Rhee	Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders	Today, ICTs are widely accepted as essential tools for reducing poverty, enhancing human development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, without visionary policy makers and other ICT-capable government officials the promise of a better future through the use of ICTs is unlikely to be realized. The United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (UN-APCICT) is developing an Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders to equip policy makers and other government officials with the essential knowledge and skills they need to fully leverage opportunities presented by ICTs to achieve national development goals. The Academy was developed, through a multi-stakeholder consultative process involving policy makers, experts in ICT for development and educators. It has a core curriculum with eight modules ranging from basic to more advanced topics of ICT for development that can be delivered face-to-face or as online self-study courses. A number of national training institutes and regional development agencies are already working with APCICT to adapt and incorporate the modules as part of their training curriculum.	rhee@unapcict.org
Presentation	Presenter TBA	PITA update	TBA	pita@connect.com.fj
Presentation	Graham Ingram	Towards a Pacific CERT	TBA	graham@auscert.org.au
Presentation	Helen Henry	ICT in the Cook Islands Police	TBA	TBA
Presentation	Jan Bieringa	World Summit Awards	THE WORLD SUMMIT AWARD ROAD SHOW What is it and what does it offer. In September 2007, the 40 best examples of high quality e-Content from 168 countries were again selected by the WSA Grand Jury, held on the invitation of the Government of Croatia on the Island of Brijuni. In the framework of this world wide selection process two important assets have been generated: The right to showcase the world's most outstanding best practice examples of high-quality e-Content. Anju Manjal would participate as the demonstrater of the FIJI winning application from 2007. Also THE WORLD SUMMIT AWARD ROAD Call for submissions - What is it and what does it offer	jan@bwx.co.nz
Presentation	John Budden	Critical Infrastructure and the five 9s	TBA	john@budden.com
Presentation	Maureen Hilyard	E-government: transforming governance in the cook islands	In 2006 the Cook Islands and UNDP agreed upon a jointly funded e-Government project. The Cook Islands Government committed itself to serving the information needs of its people in a way that is appropriate for the 21st Century. The project involves transforming traditional public service information and services and transferring them onto the internet. Citizens will be able to access user-friendly information in their own time and space. Transforming its governance structures aims to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Government as well as offer transparency and accountability. The Cook Islands Government has taken the lead in the Pacific to make this happen. They have supported this change process through the enactment of important legislation. The Spam Act aims to protect our internet system from external attacks and the Official Information Act ensures availability and openness about government information. All Government Ministries have a website which will be coordinated via an e-Government portal enabling all government information to be accessed through one main website. Despite some difficulties along the way, the value of the project will be in the benefits it will ultimately bring to the people of the Cook Islands. Health and Education are productively engaged in the transformation process and are developing new technologies to help them enhance their services on Rarotonga and to the outer islands (and will present brief demonstrations of what services they are providing through their websites) .	maureen@pmoffice.gov.ck
Presentation	Mitchell Tutangata	Introducing Broadband to the outer Islands	TBA	TBA
Presentation	Nathan Kwasam	The politics of mobile phone competition in Papua New Guinea	ICT policies can stall or enable real competition. In Papua New Guinea, politics has played a pivotal role in the model of mobile phone competition. Digicel, an international and private mobile phone company is being restricted through two Government instruments; the 2007 National ICT Policy and the 2008 amendments to the Telecommunications Act, from competing openly with the State-owned Pacific Mobile.	andynk@upng.ac.pg
Presentation	Paul Pinjik	Challenges in Offering a Comparative IT Education: Experiences From PNG	Information Technology is a subject that is difficult to grasp by students that are coming from rural Papua New Guinea communities who do not have a television, Telephone, Computer and Internet access in their rural homes, and whose parents are mainly subsistence farmers and illiterate. On top of that, the tertiary institutions do not have well qualified teaching staff and other resources to effectively deliver an Information Technology Curriculum comparable to international standards. Having access to Internet and with experience from learning Information Technology in countries such as Japan and Australia, I tried to offer content similar to or similar in standard as in those countries but found out that students can not cope with the pace and content being presented. I also found out that there are no specialized resources to help deliver content mainly due to lack of funding from government as most institutions are government funded. Donor agencies such as AusAid? and Japanese Internet Aid (JICA) provided resources such as computer laboratories and buildings which were functioning well over the first few years than due to wear and tear, and lack of institutional maintenance funding, have either being closed and not used at all or used only the few working equipment and resources. In this presentation, I will outline experiences in dealing with delivering IT curriculum at University level in Papua New Guniea as well as the experience gained in acquiring IT equipment and resources from donor agencies and funding from institutions to maintain and upkeep the resources supplied by donors.	ppinjik@dbs.unitech.ac.pg
Presentation	Pua Ngamata	The Cook Islands SPAM act	TBA	tngamata@pmoffice.gov.ck
Presentation	Sam Goundar	Using the Internet to Disseminate the Laws of Fiji	The presentation will focus on the “Role of the Internet Infrastructure” to assist the Government of Fiji to “Disseminate the Revised Laws of Fiji”. For the first time ever, the Revision of the Laws of Fiji are being done in “digital/electronic” format using the Information Technology platform and will be Disseminated using the Internet. This project has a local team under the guidance of, and managed and coordinated by a local IT Advisor/Consultant/Project Manager	sam.goundar@ag.gov.fj
Presentation	Save Vocea	ICANN Update	TBA	save.vocea@icann.org
Presentation	Siaosi Sovaleni	Pacific Telecenter Online Community (PACTOC)	The presentation will discuss what telecenter means in the Pacific and the its role for closing the Digital Divide.	Siaosi@sopac.org
Presentation	Siaosi Sovaleni	eReadiness of the Pacific	eReadiness is the degree to which a community is prepared to participate in the Networked World. It is gauged by assessing a community’s relative advancement in the areas that are most critical for ICT adoption and the most important applications of ICTs. When considered together in the context of a strategic planning dialogue, an assessment based on these elements provides a robust portrayal of a community’s Readiness.	Siaosi@sopac.org
Presentation	Timoti Tangiruaine	Using the Mapserver in the Cook Islands	TBA	TBA
Presentation	Tofiga Aisake	E-Health in the Cook Islands	TBA	TBA
Presentation	Tony Hill	IPv6 Forum	IPv6 Forum	tony@keanyhill.wattle.id.au
Presentation	Wolf Forstreuter	Remote Sensing in the Pacific, centralised or everywhere?	As a result of the SOPAC-EU Project trained GIS users in Pacific Island Countries apply Remote Sensing (RS) everywhere. The utilisation of image data such as Landsat, IKONOS or QuickBird? image or scanned aerial photographs should be transferred to the end-user as far as possible, as he bring the technical expertise into the interpretation and analysis. However, not all RS components can be transferred at this point in time. Image data purchase, pre-processing and some components of image data analysis are currently carried out centrally at SOPAC, as special hardware, software and specialised training are required. The presentation describes the work of a central GIS&RS unit handling aspects of RS for Pacific island Countries until they can be delegated to the countries. At that same time new types of image data will be available requiring new types of image pre-processing which again will be first carried out by a central unit.	wforstreuter@yahoo.co.uk

Workshops

Type	Presenter	Title	Paper	E-mail
Workshop	Al Blake	ICT Governance – Managing Identity, audit and compliance.	Modern organisations are subject to increasing scrutiny in the management of their ICT operations. Audit by external and internal bodies requires standardised processes that align with the risk profile of the organisation.Reliable identity management (IdM) is an essential foundation for robust ICT governance. Controlling access to resources, based on codification of business rules improves audit and compliance as well as reducing the administrative overhead of ICT operations staff.This workshop will look at opportunities for standardising Identity Management in differing environments as well as providing practical examples as to how network and directory management systems can be driven by HR business events. A number of different tools will be introduced as well as discussion of the change management strategies that can be used to deliver effective IdM systems within organisations	al@blakes.net
Workshop	Chris Hammond Thrasher	Internet security workshop	Experience the popular full-day workshop on information security from PacINET 2007. This workshop explores the full breadth of information security ranging from the applications of`cryptography, to network security, to law and ethics based on the 10 knowledge domains of the CISSP certification. This workshop is ideal for high-tech managers, techies interested in improving their security knowledge, or individuals interested in pursuing the CISSP certification in the future.	hammondthrasher_c@usp.ac.fj
Workshop	Etuate Cocker	Map Server Deployment and Tikiwiki Open Source Development	A hands on tutorial on configuring Map Server to act as DNS, web server, mail,DHCP, gateway. Workshop on how to edit map files configuration. Coding on how to modify map server interface and how to become a tikiwiki open source developer.	etuate@sopac.org
Workshop	Lynnold Wini	Drupal Theming for beginners	Drupal is a leading open source Content Management System (CMS) ideal for building websites. Drupal themes are constantly evolving making it easier for novice users with minimal CSS, PHP experience to customize Drupal themes. While many tutorials assume some level of experience, this one is geared specifically for those without prior experience. Using this knowledge, a beginner with keen interest can assume more control over the “look and feel” of their Drupal website. Participants will learn about Drupal, CSS and some PHP.	lynnold.wini@gmail.com

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