PacINET 2009 Theme:
Venue: Holiday Inn, Port Moresby

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Latest Articles about PacINET
• Comments about PacINET
• Call for Papers
• Speakers
• Agenda
• Registration, Flights and accommodation
• Wireless Training
• APNIC Workshop
• Conference Centres
• Host Organising Committee
• PacINET Sponsors

Introduction

PacINET 2009 is the Eigth Annual Conference and AGM of PICISOC.


PacINET is a regional conference for practitioners, developers, researchers and those interested in ICT from all sectors to exchange information on the system design, enabling technologies, and anecdotal experiences related to the use of ICT in the Pacific Islands.

Latest Articles about PacINET

Comments about PacINET

PacINET 2009 Comments

Call for Papers

The theme for the conference will be advised later. Please keep on check this section

The PacINET conference is composed of several types of contributions including Paper Presentations, Demonstrations, Tutorials and Workshops, Panel Discussions and Invited Talks. Non-technical presentations may also be included where relevant, depending on merit.

It is anticipated there will be various sub-themes centred around the general conference theme and presentations may be made on topics of interest to ICT in the Pacific including (but not limited to):

Client-Server Computing	Wireless Networking	Computer Applications	Database Systems	e-Government
e-Health	GIS and Remote Sensing	Internet Security	Open Source Systems
Networking and Routing	Protocols and Standards	Risk Management	Rural/Remote Telecommunications

Presentation streams include (subject to change, visit our website for updates or contact us for more information, or if you are interested in an unlisted stream):

• e-Health Initiatives in the Pacific
• Building Connected Communities
• An Open Source World
• e-Government and the Pacific
• Internet: Safety, Security and Censorship
• ICT in Education
• The VoIP (R)Evolution
• IPv6
• Women in Technology
• New Media

Presenting a Paper

There are two (2) conference streams: Technical and Non-technical.

To register your interest in presenting please email PacINET 2009 Call for Papers. The Registration of Interest form will be made available later:

To seek further information, please contact email Andrew Molivurae on Tel: +678 22015 or Fax: +678 24319 or skype: amolivurae

Important Dates

May 11th 2009	Deadline for Registrations of Interest
June 16th 2009	Notification of Acceptance
June 30th 2009	Schedule of Presentations finalised
July 21std 2009	Schedule of Presentations published
September 7th - 10th 2009	Conference

Speakers

The list of Speakers will be published here once we have all the details available

Agenda

PacINET 2009 Agenda

Registration, Flights and accommodation

For registering to the conference as well as getting information on flights, visas and accommodation, please visit the PacINET2009 Registration page.
There are no registration fees to PacINET 2009

Wireless Training

For more information about the Wireless training, please click on the link https://ws.edu.isoc.org/trac/wirelessu/wiki/PortMoresbyCurriculum
For registrations and any other inquiries for the training please liaise directly with
Andrew Molivurae
Email:

Please click on the link below to view the Participants List

Participant List

APNIC Workshop

APNIC will be conducting a two day workshop from Tuesday 8th and Wednesday the 9th. Please refer to the table below for more details of the two day workshop

Day	Topic	Duration	Trainers	Venue
Tue 8th	IPv6	whole day	John Tan/Stella Best - APNIC	Holiday Inn
Wed 9th	Internet Security	whole day	John Tan/Stella Best - APNIC	Holiday Inn

Please indicate if you will be attending by sending an email to

Andrew Molivurae
Email:

Conference Centres

The local host for this years PacINET 2009 meeting PNG are currently working around the clock to finalize all the details for the conference venues and the details will be published later once they are available

Host Organising Committee

The Host Organising Committee includes the following people supported by the PICISOC Board. For any enquiries contact The PacINET 2009 organisation committee:

Prof. Dr. Victor van Reijswoud	Director MBA program	Divine Word University - POM Campu
Jimmy Son	Business Development Manager	High Tech Industires Limited
Nathan Kwasam	Lecturer	University of PNG
Alfred Vahau	Director-Communications	University of PNG
Nigel Diambo	Director-Immigrations Division	Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade.
Arnold Lakamanga	Manager - GIS Mineral Information	Mineral Resources Authority
Ms. Carol Cholai
Saskia Ani

PacINET Sponsors

Government of PNG
ISOC
Telikom PNG
Daltron
DataNets?
Pacific Technologies
Mineral Resources Authority

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