New website launched for PacInet 2010

A new website for PacInet 2010 conference in Vanuatu was launched this week by PacInet 2010 organizing team.

The domain pacinet-2010.org was sponsored by Telecom Vanuatu Ltd was registered few weeks ago was finally organized and published online by Dan McGarry who heads the technical sub-committee.

The website will feature conference details, speakers, sponsors, programmes and other relevant information to guide interested participants.

172 Days left

172 days left before PacInet 2010 rolls and already the ground team working very hard to get things organized.

The team has already launched campaign for donations from sponsors this week. There have been some indications from organizations but have yet to be revealed.

Sponsorship have been categorized into 4 categories. Event Sponsor, Gold Sponsor, Silver Sponsor and Bronze Sponsor.

Let that evolve, meet the organizing team who deserve credit for planning the event and that can be measured by www.pacinet-2010.org.

Andrew Molivurae - Telecom Vanuatu Ltd
Dan McGarry - USP, PacLii
Daryl Moon - DATEC Vanuatu Ltd
Louis Nasak - Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Antonio Josiah - Yumi Konnek
Sebastien Lanteigne,
Nettie Collins - USP
John Jack -
George Tasso - Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Gerard Metsan - Telecom Vanuatu Ltd
Sylvain Toddman - Geology and Mines

What is PacINET?

The Pacific INET, or PacINET, conference is organised by the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society, (PICISOC) and is the leading Information and Communications Technology conference in the Pacific Islands.

PacINET is a regional conference 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.

PacINET 2010 will take place, in Vanuatu, at the University of the South Pacific Emalus Campus from 13-17 September 2010, with the theme “Open Government and Access to Information”.

Structure

The 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 centred 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

PacINET Forum

The PacINET Forum has been a regular feature since the 2005 conference and features guest panelists discussing issues of relevance to ICT in the Pacific. Past Forum topics include Natural Disasters and how can ICT help? (PacINET 2005) and Building the Digital Pacific (PacINET 2006). Past Panelists have included technology luminaries such as Vint Cerf and regional leaders such as Jimmie Rodgers.

Past Conferences

• PacINET 2009 - Papua New Guinea, 2009
• PacINET 2008 - Cook Islands, 2008
• PacINET 2007 - Solomon Islands, August 2007
• PacINET 2006 - Samoa, August 2006
• PacINET 2005 - Kiribati, August 2005
• PacINET 2004 - Vanuatu, August 2004
• PacINET 2003 - Tonga, October 2003
• PacINET 2002 – Fiji