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…
The GFCE Pacific Hub team presented at the PacSON Annual General Meeting which was held for the first time in person at Grand Pacific Hotel Suva, 26th-30th September, 2022. The Pacific Hub team briefly, presented on what the GFCE is, the history of the Pacific hub and its objectives of strengthening Pacific relationships and cyber…
In August, the GFCE Pacific Hub team made a courtesy call to the Prime Minister of Tonga, Hon. Hu’akavameiliku as the Minister responsible for Digital Transformation and a champion of many cyber initiatives in the wider Pacific region. The GFCE Pacific Hub was represented by the Director, Mr. Siosaia Vaipuna who will be based In Tonga…
Source: Tonga Women in ICT (TWICT) TWICT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) with CERT TONGA, under MEIDECC which will enable the group to carry out public awareness on Cybercrime in Tonga. The MOU will enable TWICT to act hand in hand with CERT TONGA in delivering awareness in the Kingdom of Tonga. This will…
Written by: GFCE Secretariat Source: The Global Cyber Expertise Magazine Issue 8 In October 2020 the GFCE appointed Cherie Lagakali as its first regional Pacific Liaison, to lead the scoping and design of a new GFCE Pacific Hub. Cherie’s appointment follows the outcomes of the GFCE’s first regional Pacific meeting, held in Melbourne in February…
Earlier this year I had the chance to join a group of experts from across the Asia-Pacific to explore the future of digital government. The workshop was organized as a part of UNDESA’s outreach to inform the 2020 UN E-Government Survey and was designed to look at the specific challenges faced by Least Developed Countries…
Written by Cherie Lagakali, Board Secretary, PICISOC (Pacific Island Chapter of the Internet Society); and Klee Aiken, GFCE Advisory Board member. In February 2020, the GFCE held its inaugural regional Pacific event in Melbourne, in the margins of the OCSC-GCSCC 2020 Global Cybersecurity Capacity Building Conference. During the event, donors, project implementers and Pacific partners…
Co-authored by Cherie Lagakali and Klée Aiken As discussions around all things digital become increasingly mainstreamed, cyber capacity building has established itself as a key component in the development agenda. Capacity building, broadly defined as — “stimulating change by developing or strengthening the capabilities and competencies of individuals, institutions, governments and societies ‘at large,’” with an emphasis on the…