APDIP Projects in Pacific Island Nations

New 2005/2006 Edition of the Digital Review of Asia Pacific Launched: The new and updated edition of the Digital Review of Asia Pacific contains authoritative reports on how 29 economies/countries are using ICT in business, government and civil society written by senior authors who live and work in the region. Included are three subregional chapters on the Pacific Island States, ASEAN and APEC.

PacINET 2005: Internet and ICT in the Pacific, Tarawa, Kiribati, 22-27 August 2005: APDIP presents its International Open Source Network and Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance initiatives at PacINET 2005.

USP - IOSN Microgrant Program Awarded Projects in First Round: Develop a Point of Sale (POS) System suitable for use in a retail environment in the Pacific Islands (in particular small enterprises looking for a computer-based sales system), by Avon-Solutions, Vanuatu. Development of TikiMaps inside TikiWiki.org Content Management System, by SOPAC. An adaptive mass conservative streamline tracking software for two-dimensional flows, by I. Hussein and Z. Li, USP and Fijian Spell Checker for OpenOffice, by W. Blanke and P. Geraghty, USP

Pacific Island Countries Symposium, Suva, Fiji, 6-9 December 2004: APDIP helped organize a session on Internet Governance for the UNESCAP Sub-regional Conference on ICT for Development in Pacific Island Developing Countries.

Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2003/2004: This bi-annual review provides facts, figures, data and analysis of the state-of-the-art of ICT and Internet diffusion, adoption and application in 25 Asia-Pacific countries. It serves as a one-stop reference source on the state-of-practice and future trends in ICTs for development and ICTs for industry for policy- and decision-makers, technology practitioners and experts, researchers, and educators in the region.