ISOC Pacific Islands Chapter

Andrew Molivurae is the coordinator. More to follow. You can also visit the PICISOC website.

Cook Islands Celebrations a big Success
Cook Islands had a great celebration of the OneWebday on 24th September 2007. The activities were lead by the Government and Telecom. Maveni Kaufonoga is the master mind behind this celebration. Congratulations Cook Islands. Below is the report by Maveni:

The three main organizations that participated in the program were the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Education and the Telecom Cook Islands

The Ministry of Education displayed the following:


 * E-learning
 * Video conferencing using two schools from outer islands, Atiu and Tikao schools.
 * Online learning websites that are available

The Ministry also used this day to launch its new website www.education.gov.ck. The website has a wide variety of information for people of all ages who want to know more about what the ministry can offer and for school students and their parents.

The Office of the Prime Minister who is responsible for ICT displayed the following:


 * E-Government Program
 * Network System
 * General information on the internet

Telecom Cook Islands


 * Showed Simple Web Design program
 * Offered registration on free installation of Broadband Connections

The Program of the day was opened by our Minister of Youth – Honorable Ngamau Munokoa. In her speech, she stressed the support that Government had on ICT as the way forward in being efficient and transparent. We also have the Secretary of Education and Acting Chief of Staff for Office of the Prime Minister present at the Opening Ceremony.

The program attracted a lot from public. The responce was very positive in that they learned a lot from the presentations.

In the afternoon, 6 schools from around Rarotonga participated in an Web Design Competition. A presentation was made on simple steps on how to develop a websites and they were given time to create one for their schools. Points were awarded to schools who were able to follow what has been presented to them. Tikikaveka College came up with first price, Tereora College came second and the third went to Te Uki Ou school.

It was a good program and we are hoping to run it again next year with a hope to get more participants".

For more information about Cook Islands, or to view the OneWebDay photo gallery, please visit www.cook-islands.gov.ck

Vanuatu Celebrations Plan
Event: Monday 24th September 2007

In collaboration with the Vanuatu IT users society (www.vignet.org.vu/wiki), Computer Network Services (CNS)(www.cns.com.vu) will be offering free wireless internet for the whole day at its main internet cafe Naviti in central Port Vila as part of the OneWebDay celebration. CNS is a locally owned company that has been in the business for more than 10 years of service to Vanuatu. This was confirmed by the Assistant General Manager Dan McGarry.

Fiji Celebrations Plans
First Event: Thursday 20th September 11am, SOPAC

We have booked the SOPAC conference room for Thursday 20th September from 11am to 1pm and will do part II of "Internet 101 for media specialists" (the return of the vengeance). Inviting media specialists, explaining the web, going down memory lane, with the web in Fiji. Talking about local content, localisation, content which is local, about the few organisations that host web site locally, how to host a web site locally and overseas at the same time, Internet Peering Exchange (IPX), etc... RSVP

Second Event: Saturday 22nd September 7pm, Copper Chimney

Also on Saturday, let's all meet at Copper Chimney for NISNTNC (No, it is not Thursday Night Curry) at 7pm to celebrate OneWebDay. We will do a round table about your experience with the web, blogs, etc... RSVP, TNC rules apply: all people present share all the food/drink costs.

RSVP for any of the two events: franck@sopac.org

Cook Islands Celebrations Plans
Project Manager: Maveni Kaufononga, ICT Coordinator: Pua Ngamata.

Cook Islands will be celebrating OneWebDay 2007 on 24th September 2007. The celebration is being coordinated by Maveni Kaufononga who is the E-Government Project Manager. The E-Government Project is funded by UNDP and the office of the Prime Minister, Cook Islands. The government of Cook Islands is taking the lead in this celebration and here is what Maveni has to say:

"We are having our celebration on the 24th September, this is due to the fact that 22nd have been occupied with other activities. What we are planning to do: We have hired a hall and Telecom Cook Islands (TCI) has agreed to provide internet service for free. In this hall, we will have many booths run by different Government Ministries, small business etc where they will show what are they offering on web and provide assistance as to how to benefit from them. ICT Division of our Government will also show some short simple presentation on other issues, like Security etc. Ministry of Education will use this to launch their new website. We are hoping to get as many participation as we can from the public and the advertisement has been out. In the afternoon, schools have been invited to join in an internet competition at the same place. Our team is organizing activities and with some prices for this competition. So far, our schools are very keen to participate. This program is co-ordinated by the ICT Division of our Government which is based at the Office of the Prime Minister."

For more information and suggestion please email: maveni@pmoffice.gov.ck or tngamata@pmoffice.gov.ck

We are currently revamping our website but for basic information and current news please visit www.cook-islands.gov.ck