AMERICAN SAMOA AND THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA Telecom MOU Signing between American Samoa and Samoa – Pago Pago, American Samoa (December 12, 2022)Successful outcomes continue under the newly revitalized Atoa o Samoa talks under the Lemanu & Talauega Administration and the new Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) Government of Samoa.After months of…
PRESS RELEASE 31/12/2022 The GFCE Pacific Hub team continues its community engagements and visiting of the different Pacific Island countries and this week will be in Samoa to make courtesy calls on high level officials as well as meeting operational teams from government agencies, non-government organisations and the private sector. Today, the team were honoured…
1st November 2022 The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is launching Cyber Smart Samoa on Tuesday, 1st November 2022 to promote awareness on the need for any Samoan to be vigilant online. The week will comprise of trainings for the technical community to collaborate on how to stay safe online. This is also an…
Press Release April 2022 April 22, 2022(For Immediate Release) Suva, Fiji (22 April 2022) – The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) in association with Pacific Island Association of NGOs (PIANGO), the European Union Funded UNDP Public Finance Management Project with supporting partners CERT NZ, Samoa Information Technology Association (SITA), Tonga Women in…
Samoa Observer 2022 The Samoa Information Association (S.I.T.A.) plans to expand its e-learning platform and has appealed for donor support to make it happen. S.I.T.A. E-Learning Project Manager Mailo Henry Mailo, in an interview with the Samoa Observer on Tuesday, said many schools in Samoa are now realising the importance of e-learning platforms. He said…
Meet the lovely ladies, Mele Manitisa and Florida Tumulango who are currently putting together the Pacific IGF’s first hybrid virtual meeting: Pacific IGF 2021 and APTLD which is taking place from 6 – 9th September, 2021. Mele Manitisa is from Tonga, her experience as a Pacific Islander studying and working in New Zealand has helped her…
Two years after visiting Samoa as part of Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) Australia’s business mission, Bernard Tuaimau in conjunction with the Pacific Business, Sports and Entrepreneurs (PBSE) and PTI Australia, has announced the ‘Pasifika Diaspora Fund’ is set to launch at the start of 2021. The fund will focus on impact investment and developing social enterprises across the Pacific. The Sydney-based businessman and co-founder of the PBSE Network…
Telecommunications company Digicel Samoa has launched a mobile wallet application called “MyCash” which gives Samoans access to digital money. The announcement of the launching of the new product was confirmed in a statement issued by Digicel on Monday. Digicel says that the new mobile wallet allows customers to send and receive money locally with the…
(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT); Cabinet this afternoon up-held the recommendation by the Selection Panel to appoint Lematua Gisa Fuatai Purcell as the Chief Executive Officer to lead the Office of the Regulator for the next three years. Four other applicants applied for the top post. At the conclusion of the due diligence review process and interviews,…
When Carmenita Solaese Lepou, an analyst in the Financial Inclusion team at the Central Bank of Samoa in Apia, heard that her application for the Reuben James Summerlin Annual Scholarship was successful she was delighted but apprehensive. She was fairly new to financial inclusion and returning to work after her maternity leave. “When I started…