The ICDP year in review

The International Centre for Democratic Partnerships runs the Australian Government’s ‘Pacific Connect’ program to build closer relationships with emerging leaders in the Pacific. Its programme coordinator, Tina Briggs, reflects on its first full year of operations.

Pacific Connect’s First Anniversary

On 8 September 2017, the Prime Minister announced the Pacific Connect pilot to forge stronger, strategic-level relationships between Pacific and Australian leaders across the public, private, academic and community sectors. The International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP) began implementing Pacific Connect on 1 October 2017.

Sydney hosts the inaugural Pacific Connect Forum

The International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP) and Global Access Partners (GAP) are hosting the inaugural Pacific Connect Forum at NSW Parliament House on Thursday 6 September.

International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP) officially launches

After ten months of operations, ICDP is well and truly up and running.

A year in the life of a small not-for-profit

The International Centre for Democratic Partnerships is celebrating its first birthday. Created by Global Access Partners, this independent, non-political organisation encourages dialogue, discussions and better relationships between current and emerging leaders in Australia and the Pacific.

Strengthening Pacific partnerships

The Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop delivered a comprehensive summary of Australia’s step up in engagement in the Pacific to a large audience in Brisbane on 9 July.

Pacific Connect-USP Academic Dialogue discusses digital innovation

23 representatives from Australian and Pacific universities and international organisations discussed innovative digital solutions for tertiary education at a network dialogue organised by the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships in Suva in Fiji on the 19th of June.

ICDP and Pacific Connect join ‘Together for a Digital Pacific 2018’ Conference

Members of the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships recently travelled to Apia in Samoa to attend the ‘Together for a Digital Pacific 2018’ conference co-sponsored by the Samoan Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Blockchain technology offers a catalyst for Australia-Pacific collaboration in Papua New Guinea

The ‘Second Track’ leads to first class collaboration opportunities for emerging leaders in Papua New Guinea and Australia.