Technology

21 September 2022
In September 2022, Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) will be hosting this year’s virtual Strengthening Media Resilience (SMR) training programme over 4 days. The training sessions will be led by various subject matter experts, attended by over media operators from...
In 2016, work began on the Rural On-Grid Extension Project to extend the power grid of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea increasing access to electricity in rural areas. The project, led by PNG Power was supported by the New Zealand...
8 September 2022
More schools in rural areas are expected to have internet connectivity. An additional 49 rural and remote schools around Fiji will have internet connectivity with the budget allocation of $2.5 million for 2022 – 2023. $11 million has been dedicated...
8 September 2022
A multi-stakeholder validation workshop was successfully held in Honiara on the Solomon Islands National Policy Roadmap for Electric Mobility. The workshop gathered together representatives from the Government, private sector, NGOs and the academia. More than 50% of the country’s GHG...
12 July 2022
An app teaching the Niuean language was launched in Auckland on Saturday 9 July. The app, Fakaako e Vagahau Niue, translates common words, the Niuean alphabet, everyday conversations, numbers and proverbs. Mele Nemaia, chairperson of Vagahau Niue Trust, said it...
29 April 2022
New Caledonian telecommunications company OPT-NC has almost finished connecting key underwater internet cables. These will give New Caledonia and its eastern islands faster internet. The Gondwana-Picot-2 cables, will run from New Caledonia to Fiji and measure 1,515 kilometres in length....
Thousands of people work in some of the world's most remote and inhospitable environments Photo: ThinkSafe
29 April 2022
A New Zealand firm’s technology has been selected to help protect Pacific workers in a United Nations programme which also aims to prevent the extinction of hundreds of endangered species. Gisborne based tech company ThinkSafe has developed mobile technology to...