Vanuatu won the bid to host PACINET2010 in Papua New Guinea Last Year
2009. PacINET is a regional conference organize by Pacific Island
Chapter for Internet Society (PICISOC) for practitioners, developers,
researchers and those interested in Information and Communications
Technology (or ICT) from all sectors to exchange information on the
system design, enabling technologies, and anecdotal experiences
related to the use of Information and Communications Technology in the
Pacific Islands. It has evolved to become the Pacific's largest
regular Information and Communications Technology conference.
This year's conference will happen in September 13th to 17th at the
Universityof the South Pacific's (USP), Emalus Campus. The Theme will
center on "Next Generation Internet: Security and Governance
PacINET conference is composed of several types of contributions
including Paper Presentations, Demonstrations, Tutorials and
Workshops, Panel Discussions and Invited Talks. Traditionally PacINET
was a technical conference, but due to member requests (and to cater
for the different member groups present at every conference), from the
2007 conference onwards, PacINET was split into dedicated technical
and non-technical streams. This was deemed to better serve member
needs and travel/work schedules.
Typically, there are various sub-themes centered around the general
conference theme and presentations are made on topics of interest to
ICT in the Pacific including (but not limited to):
* Client-Server Computing
* Computer Applications
* Database Systems
* e-Government
* eHealth
* Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing
* ICT for Development
* ICT Policy
* Internet Security
* Open Source Systems
* Networking and Routing
* Protocols and Standards
* Risk Management
* Rural/Remote Telecommunications
* VoIP and Convergence
The ground work and preparation for the conference is under taken by a
local committee comprises of volunteers of IT community. Most of which
serve in various important sectors such as the Financial Sector,
Education, Government, NGO's and Telecommunications Industry.
Strategically this is an important conference that will inspire ICT
capacity building. Our young and aspiring IT people will be able to
meet and communicate with experts from the region and the world. It is
a well known fact in the Pacific region that, 'Opportunity' is a
defining factor in the people's progress. In the spirit of opening up
opportunity, the conference's admission will be free. Hopefully as the
preparation unfolds we hope to broadcast the excitement to our young
people not only on Efate but on other Islands who are ambitious and
aspiring do work in the IT world and join the rank of IT professional
in Vanuatu who are directing their energy towards issues of equity
which by far characterize the 80% of our population.
