On 16-18 July 2019, around twelve of Papua New Guinea’s best seed-stage startups will participate in a bootcamp and compete to represent the country at the global Seedstars Summit in Switzerland and win up to USD 500,000 in equity investments and other prizes. For its first time in the country, Seedstars Papua New Guinea 2019 […] More
TechInPacific – Digital innovations in Pacific region have made a major boost especially in agriculture and nutrition sectors. The importance of digital innovation in the region can be seen through the latest Pacific AgriHack competition where three promising solutions emerged as the winners. For your information, most of the Pacific population makes a living from […] More
TechInPacific – GSMA in partnership with Seedstars brings its accelerating events to Papua New Guinea and Samoa. Previously, there were over 90 local Seedstars startups competitions held in Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The program is part of its mission to build synergies between startups and mobile operators, aiming at […] More
TechInPacific – Health-tech startups have tapped into a profitable global market by providing different aerial deliveries. One of the health-tech startups is San Francisco-based Zipline. In 2016, the company took off drones delivery project in Rwanda. Through the drones, 150 clinical blood which mostly are blood and vaccines delivered to isolated locations. Other organizations also […] More
TechInPacific – Drones carrying vaccines and medicine to remote 39 remote areas of Vanuatu were in a world-first trial December last year. They have the potential to improve healthcare in the underserved and isolated areas in the Pacific region. It was a collaborative project between the Vanuatuan Government with two commercial drone companies. Under the […] More
TechInPacific – PNG Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill officially addressed the opening of the Digital Economy Forum on May 16 – 17, in Port Moresby under the theme: Connect the Unconnected for an Inclusive Digital Economy. He talked about how technology was transforming the world with no exception to Papua New Guinea and its economy. Technology […] More
TechInPacific – The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Digital Economy Forum 2019 is kicking off on May 16 – 17 at Stanley Hotel, Port Moresby. The Forum is organized by NICTA under the theme: Connect the Unconnected for an Inclusive Digital Economy, initiated by the Government of Papua New Guinea and supported by Huawei. The Forum will […] More
TechInPacific – The Agricultural sector of Pacific region held series of agricultural workshop events starting from April 29 – May 8, 2019. The events were Cross Learning Workshop (29 April – 2 May), Optimising the Performance of Producers’ Organisations (OPPO) Workshop (6 May – 7 May), and PIFON and Innov4AgPacific Workshop (8 May). The Cross […] More
TechInAfrica – Techlab PNG will run three events in a week from May 14th– 18th, 2019. The series of events are initiated by the Australian Government in partnership with the Government of Papua New Guinea. The events are already opened for registration. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are encouraged to apply for the events. Here […] More
TechInPacific – Mathew Shields, Vocus Communications’ Director/Technical Lead for the CS2 project visited ASN’s manufacturing plant in Calais, France, in March this year. The visit was to review final testing of the Coral Sea Cable System and Solomon Islands Domestic Network before transporting them via the Ile de Brehat ship. The two Cable Systems will […] More
TechInPacific – It has become a common knowledge that our some of our oceans are filled with chemicals and plastics. As a result, marine life is in danger for extinction. According to bbc.com, around 8 million metric tons of plastic pollution enter our ocean every year. As we consume seafood, this pollution can be a […] More
TechInPasific – The Coral Sea Cable System project is expected to finish by the end of 2019. The high speed Cable system will open up new opportunities for development of some industries in Papua New Guinea. The Coral Sea Cable System is 47,000 km long linking Australia’s Sydney to PNG’s Port Moresby and Honiara in […] More
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